Boys:

Corbin Faint Central

William Donnelly Eastern

Brandon Le Comte Eastern

James van Kerkhoff Central

John Allan Wellington

Cameron Phillips Wellington

Kobe Fleming Wellington

Girls:

Taylor Jamieson Wellington

Rhiarne Taiapa Eastern

Courtney Trail Central

Ansley Koolen Central

Hannah Fleming Wellington

Rebecca Collier Eastern

Gina Bailey Central

Kaitlyn Watts Central

Charlotte Galloway Wellington

Ariata Kutia Eastern

Annaleise Faint Central

Squash Wellington would like to offer our sincere condolences to the Dean family for the loss of Des and Ann. In the recent tragic ballooning accident. Our thoughts are with you.

 

Up and coming  junior Scott Galloway is aiming to continue his rapid rise through the squash ranks with a busy year planned for 2012. Aside from his quest to reach A-grade before he turns 14 in March, Scott is hoping to travel to top junior tournaments in Australia, Malaysia and Britain to test himself against the top players in the world for his age group. The current New Zealand under 15 boys' champion's gruelling schedule will include the Australian Junior Series in April, two tournaments in Malaysia in May/June, the Australian Junior Nationals in September, and the Scottish and British Junior Opens in December/January 2012/13. Scott will continue to compete in New Zealand junior events, in the under 17 age group (despite being eligible for the under 15s for another year). For more information on Scott's plans for the year, including how to help him achieve his goals, follow the link below.

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Squash New Zealand is pleased to announce that Waikato will host the third and final Talent Development Centre for the northern part of the North Island.

Squash New Zealand is pleased to announce that Waikato will host the third and final Talent Development Centre for the northern part of the North Island. The Waikato Talent Development Centre (TDC) will be head-coached by Joanne Williams and Lindsey Walters, with assistance from a range of top coaches and players from throughout the district. Selection of the squad will be underway shortly, with the first camp set to run over February 11-12. As with the other TDCs announced by Squash New Zealand this month, there will be three camps run for aspiring under 11 and under 13 juniors from the Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty and Waikato districts. These will be hosted by a range of clubs in the Waikato district. This completes the set of three TDCs that Squash New Zealand had aimed to set up. The Northern TDC will run alongside the Central TDC, run out of SquashGym Palmerston North, and the Southern TDC run out of Christchurch. Squash New Zealand is thrilled with this result, and looks forward to the TDCs helping to educate and refine the champions of tomorrow. High Performance Coach Paul Hornsby said "I believe that this additional level of support at under 11 and 13 level promises to be of huge benefit in developing and educating players earlier in their squash careers. It will provide a springboard and the players coming through the system will provide larger pool of talent to feed the National Development and World Junior Squads in future years. I am excited and looking forward to working with the coaches who will be delivering the camps”. Squash New Zealand would like to thank all of the coaches, clubs, districts and other organisations who came forward to host a TDC. The high calibre of proposals enabled the luxury of hand-picking the three centres we felt would be most beneficial based on location, facilities, and coaching staff.

The 2011 Squash New Zealand Awards took place at the Annual General Meeting held at the Copthorne Hotel in Auckland over the weekend. To see photos from the night, please visit our facebook page www.facebook.com/SquashNZ SQUASH NZ COACHING AWARDS 2011 The three categories of awards were New Coach, Club and School Coach and District Performance Coach. The nominees are selected by the Squash NZ Coaching Advisory Panel and the awards were presented by National Coaching Director Dave Clarke. The New Coach Award was won by Nirelle McDonald (Northland) who recently became involved in the game again through the Squash in Schools Program in Kaitaia which saw 60 children introduced to the game. She then completed 4 of the Squash NZ Coach Development Framework modules and visibly applied these techniques to the program. Upon completion she raised funding for equipment and to run another program introducing a further 122 children to squash. She currently runs 4 sessions a week at the club and has converted 60 of those school children into club members as well as helping assistant coaches in the delivery of the junior programs. This is a truly inspiring effort by Nirelle who is a worthy recipient of the award. The Club and School Coach of the Year was Nick Wiffen (Wellington/Nelson) who is based at Motueka Squash Club. He runs junior night coaching sessions for Secondary Schools children as well as running an advanced squad which has seen players nationally ranked. He also coached 3 teams in the SI Secondary Schools Champs and 6 teams at the Regional Champs. In his spare time he raised money for the juniors and is also the President of the club. One of his young charges was quoted “Nick feels like a friend to me rather than just a coach, he set aside several hours of his private time to coach or simply feed my hunger for improvement”. The District Performance Award for 2011 went to Mark Waldin (Auckland) who has had an incredibly busy year. He has coached the Auckland Teams to inter District and National success with both boys and girls teams winning the National Championship. He worked with several Squash NZ National Squad members in 2011 and is the personal coach to Abbie Palmer who recently was part of the Squash NZ World Junior Girls Team. He is on the Squash Auckland Coaching Panel and is a qualified Squash NZ coach facilitator who has delivered a multitude of workshops up skilling other coaches this year. Squash NZ National Coaching Director Dave Clarke said "the standard of nominations was extremely high this year with nominations up by 100% from the previous year. The Coaching panel would like to acknowledge not just the work of the coaches above but of all coaches who are contributing their time and effort to Squash in New Zealand. Thank you all for your contributions and keep up the good work." SQUASH NZ CLUB OF THE YEAR 2011 Manurewa Squash Club were selected as the Squash NZ Club of the Year after a year of growth and new initiatives for the South Auckland club. The introduction of the voluntary position of ‘Membership Administrator' to build quality relationships within the club and community with the goal of growing and developing the game of squash in Manurewa has had a great impact for the club. Initiatives around membership types, volunteer training and recognition, coach development, women's squash programmes and refurbishments have all helped in the club's 65% increase in membership in the past year. With more refurbishments planned, online booking currently being installed and more membership programmes planned, the club is set to continue their growth next season. Ernie Dumper, president of Manurewa Squash Club said that without the support of Squash Auckland, the club could not have achieved what they did. SQUASH NZ PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR Don Cotter was the 2011 recipient of the Squash NZ Personality of the Year plate for his contribution to the history of squash through the continued development of the Squash NZ Hall of Fame and through the history of squash book “Long and Short” which Don drove the development of. One year ago Don was initiated as a life member of Squash NZ and this year he said he was once more blown away to receive this award, stating in typical Don-fashion, that the award should not be given to him, but to the whole committee of the Squash NZ Hall of Fame. SQUASH NZ CHAIRMAN'S AWARD Each year, the Squash NZ Chairman selects a recipient of this trophy, which rewards a significant contribution to squash in the previous year. In 2011, sports journalist, squash enthusiast and author of “Long and Short: The Story of NZ Squash” Joseph Romanos was selected as the worthy recipient. Jospeh trawled the country, interviewing hundreds of squashies throughout New Zealand to capture the incredible history of sport in what everyone agrees is a fabulous pictorial story of squash in NZ. Joseph was also a founding member of the NZ Squash Hall of Fame and every year works with his fellow Committee members to select inductees to celebrate. Joseph was given his award at the Hall of Fame ceremony on Friday night at Remuera Rackets Club and the interviewer was then interviewed by fellow Hall of Fame Committee Member Grant Smith. Squash New Zealand would like to congratulate all recipients of the award and also thank those people who took the time to nominate all worthy recipients. Click on the link below to see photos from the Awards night and also the Hall of Fame dinner.

The National Development Squads, made up of promising under 15 and 17 players, have been named for the 2012 season. Squash New Zealand is delighted to announce the members of the National Development Squad (NDS) for the 2012 season. The NDS is made up of under 15 and 17 boys and girls who have shown the potential to develop and move into the World Junior Squads in future years. The Squad will meet for three training camps in Auckland throughout the year, and be delivered by Lindsey Walters and Edmund Bradford. The dates of the camps are: 11th & 12th February 5th & 6th May 15th & 16th September The 2012 NDS Members are as follows (in alphabetical order): Britney Hill Anna Hughes Luke Jones Nikki Kennedy Parearau Kutia Chapman Kutia Jordan Le Comte Jamie Oakley Casey Owen Henry Pyc Alex Revington Sam Sayes Callum Seymour Camden Te-Kani McQueen Ellen Verry Montel Whatarangi High Performance Coach Paul Hornsby said: “The NDS plays a huge part in the player pathway and future success of New Zealand Squash on the international stage. Under 15 and 17 players are mid-way through their junior squash careers and as such it is a crucial time to educate our most talented players about the demands of international squash ahead. Technical and tactical proficiency are crucial, but a real emphasis on the mental, physical and lifestyle aspects of the game will be focussed upon during the year. I look forward to being involved in the delivery of the camps.” Congratulations to all the players named.

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 After entering numerous junior events along with exceptional results, five of our Wellington Juniors have won cash prizes in the Millenium Player series.

 

U17 Boys - 1st Jonny Barnett, 2nd Zac Millar

U17 Girls - 1st Sophie O'Connell

U15 Girls - 2nd Paris Dalrymple-Mortleman

U11 Boys - 1st Kobe Fleming

 

Well done to all who participated, you earned it !!!

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It is a requirement for all interclub & Super Champ players to attend a refereeing rules evening. Please contact Sandra Tinkler on 232-4417 or work 04-474-2854 to book your club in now!

Dave Clarke (Squash NZ National Coaching Director) will be holding a 'How to Coach' course at the Mana Squash Club on Thursday 17th March.

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In line with the recent change to WSF Rule 2.3 PAR to 15 will now be win by 2 - not win by 1 or 3.

The board of SNZ has adopted the rule change as part of its policy on PAR scoring.

The policy can be viewed by clicking on the link below

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