Mar
27
2016/2017 VSL Season Winners
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At the end of the 2016/2017 regular season these teams were in first place. Congratulations!
REGULAR SEASON – WOMEN
Women’s Div 1
JER 1
Josephine Adams
Cathy Covernton
Julia Horsey
Nicola Martin
Brook Parkin – Captain
Carol Richards
Carolyn Russell
Liana Schou
Women’s Div 2
VRC B2 – Duzies
Ming Chang
Louise FogartY
Meg Goodine
Stacy Hall
Judi Narduzzi
Lauren Price – Captain
Brenda Tansley
Women’s Div 3
JER B3 – Griffin
Tracy Barber
Sandra Clark
Sandra Ferguson
Cindy Goundrey
Sue Griffin – Captain
Carol Jamieson
Patricia Penn
Sarah Picciotto
Dara Sklar
Karen Stierhoff
Shaira Tejpar
Annette Trinder
Women’s Div 4
SPC 4 – Squash Chicks
Jessica Amalguer
Marnie Costa
Vivien Donnelly
Grace Huang
Maria Min
Vivian Nelson – Captain
Jarka Winter
Meghan Wagler
Bernice Xiao
Women’s Div 5
Bon 5 – Las Chicas
Christine Bradstock
Agi Conn
Raylene Ferguson
Andrea Guerrero
Elsie Krebs
Robin Lamont
Karen Lane
Rocio Lebolo
Vicki Marlatt
Kim Weber – Captain
REGULAR SEASON – OPEN
Open Div 1
JER A1
Grant Bergman
Graham Brown
John Dempsey
Michael Kahnert
Matt Reece
Carolyn Russell – Captain
Sam Scivier
Rumi Tejpar
Richard Yendell
Open Div 2
ARB A2
Blair Bullus
David Cluff
Trevor Cox – Captain
Tam Do
Barry Gifford
Marc Kazmirski
Tabs Singh
Michael St. Laurent
Aly Thobani
Gabriel Yun
Open Div 3
BON 3 – WB
Paul Aleong – Captain
Robbin Burns
Cynthia Cao
Sarah Cao
Marc Iseli
Lincoln Lee
Jacob Lin
Brent Malli
Neil Philcox
Amer Qureshi
Sherman Quon
Adam Viljoen
Open Div 4
EVE B4 – Over 50
Peter Brow
Cathy Covernton
Kiyan Dhanani
Grant Gardner
Doug MacDougall
Brian Maclean
Stweart Marshall
Chris Staargaard
Chris Wallace
Dave R. Watson – Captain
Open Div 5
VLT E5 – Pottinger
Mark Damm
Graeme Egan
Tim Gudewill
Thomas Haebler
James Horsey
Mike McIsaac
Max Pottinger – Captain
Oscar Pottinger
David Rosenberg
Mike Tamaki
Tom Urban
Jonathan West
Open Div 6
JER 6 – Hughes
Fredrik Bjork
John Carsley
John Boyd
Lucas Garnett
Kevin Gass
John Hughes – Captain
Gord Kukec
Fredrick Leith
Charles Lingren
Mike Longhi
Bill Magee
Michael Volker
Brent Woyat
Open Div 7
VRC 7K – Team Awesome
Gregg Ashby
Dylan Ashikian
John Carr
Jim Casey
Been Cook
Randy Egan
Matt Harper
Kyle Holoboff
Ian MacKinnon – Captain
Quinn Neilson
Mar
26
2017 PCO and Ladies Night at the Vancouver Racquets Club
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The 2017 PCO is coming soon to the Vancouver Racquets Club. Register online at Sporty HQ.
Mar
20
2017 AGM & Wrap Party
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The 2017 AGM and Wrap Party takes place at the Jericho Tennis Club (3837 Point Grey Road, Vancouver) on Saturday, April 1, 2017.
- Introductions
- Adoption of Agenda
- Adoption of minutes of 2016 AGM – March 19, 2016
- Voting procedure and quorum
- Chairperson’s Report
- League Coordinator’s Report
- Financial Report – Budget and Financial Statements
- Squash BC Sanctioning
- 2017/18 Committee Member Nominations
- New Business
- Adjournment
The minutes from the 2016 AGM are available for download as a Word document: VSL_2016_AGM_Min
The 2015/2016 league Income Statement and 2015/2016 Budget is also available for download as a PDF: 2016 VSL Financial Statements (DRAFT)
An analysis of the 2016 survey can be downloaded here: 2016.03.18 – 2016 Survey Results Summary
Mar
11
2016/2017 League Statistics
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Player numbers for the VSL for the 2016/2017 season:
This is the gender breakdown for the VSL for the 2016/2017 season:
This is the general age ranges for ALL divisions (Open and Women’s combined) for the 2016/2017 season:
Mar
10
2015/2016 League Statistics
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The following statistics are courtesy of SportyHQ
Player numbers for the VSL for the 2015/2016 season:
This is the gender breakdown for the VSL for the 2015/2016 season:
This is the general age ranges for ALL divisions (Open and Women’s combined) for the 2015/2016 season:
Mar
9
2014/2015 League Statistics
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The following statistics are courtesy of SportyHQ
Player numbers for the VSL for the 2014/2015 season:
This is the gender breakdown for the VSL for the 2014/2015 season:
This is the general age ranges for ALL divisions (Open and Women’s combined) for the 2014/2015 season:
Jan
2
2017 Evergreen Squashes Cancer
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It’s not too late to register for this year’s Evergreen Squash Club Squashes Cancer tournament!
Registration closes on Wednesday, January 4th! Hurry!
> https://www.sportyhq.com/…/v…/2017-Evergreen-Squashes-Cancer
Jan
1
2017 Nanaimo Open
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The Nanaimo Open is coming! Jan 27 – 29 at the Nanaimo Squash Club. See you there.
Register before Jan 6 for the early bird discount: https://www.sportyhq.com/tournament/view/2017-Nanaimo-Open
Dec
21
24 hour Squash Marathon at Newlands
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The squashies at Newlands Golf and Country Club recently hosted a 24 squash marathon to raise money for local squashie Jacques Du Toit and his wife who has recently been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. The event and the associated GoFundMe page have raised over $9,000.00 toward her care.
Click to view the video and read the article from the Langley Times.
Nov
22
Hey Ref!
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The VSL still has plans to organize free reffing clinics before the end of the year but in the meantime check out this great series of articles by Barry Faguy in Squash Magazine.
HEY REF! I was reading the new 2014 rules and was having a tough time figuring out the difference between ‘excessive’ and ‘exaggerated’ swings. Help!?
Welcome to the club. Most rules deal with the assumption that a player’s swing is reasonable—meaning that it does “not extend more than is necessary” for the intended shot. This is generally understood to mean using primarily a vertical rather than horizontal plane of travel (for both the backswing and follow-through)—and a bent elbow where possible (avoiding a straight arm). So an unreasonable swing (excessive or exaggerated) would be one that does indeed extend more than necessary. . . read more