Squash has never been as
exciting as it is now at S&H clubs, below is
an outline of our programming for the winter
and through the 09-10 squash season. Squash
offers you and your family a wonderful
lifetime sport that can be played all year
round and we are committed to providing you
with the best squash programming in the US.
Special Events
Trinity affair
- On Jan 4 Bethesda S&H is hosting a
special event - the Trinity team under
tutelage of Paul Assiante which has been
unbeaten in almost a decade will be
playing DCs best players in matches from
5 - 8pm. This will be a catered event
which every school squash player and
parent should be apart of. Paul
Assiante is not only one of the most
famous college squash coaches in history
but has also coached the Mens US squash
team. Paul will be talking to the
audience about Trinity college and
squash in college -
this is a
must - cost $10 per adult,
children free of charge
PSA Tournament
– Feb 2 - 7 the big one is fast
approaching. Again we will bring great
players to the DC area. Please let us
know if you would like to assist with
sponsorship, billeting, catering etc see
http://www.aussienicksquash.com/events/PSA10/psa_10_home.htm
Programming
Please
note A = Adults, J = Juniors
Adult
clinics with Rod to help you get organized for the winter season - max 6
participants $30pp
Sat Nov
21 Div 3 from 10.30 - 12noon
Sat Nov
21 Div4 from 12 - 1.30pm
Sun Nov
22 Div5 from 10 - 11.30noon
Adult Beginner clinics
- Beginners program - commences Nov 8
and will be held every Sunday 2 - 3pm
this will be a round robin where you
will get to meet and play with other
beginner players. On the first Sunday of
the month Teddy Weiss will be providing
a beginners clinic during this time
which will replace the round robin cost
pp $20 (first clinic is Nov 8) -
come and get some coaching from Teddy
and meet some beginner players. Please
give Teddy a heads up if you would like
to attend the Nov 8 clinic.
J Clinics
-
Bethesda - are available for various
levels and ages and commence Dec 5, see
http://www.aussienicksquash.com/juniors/clinics/2009/09BETH-SquashClinics.pdf
(note - deadline for
Winter session discount is Dec 1)
Junior clinics available
at Regency and Worldgate - contact Jay
jnaseem@sportandhealth.com
J Schools winter program
- see
http://www.aussienicksquash.com/juniors/juniors.htm#schools
Tournaments
Adults -
Sport & Health Open
- Oct 30 - Nov 1 Worldgate and
Bethesda (you nominate for early
rounds Finals at Bethesda)
http://www.aussienicksquash.com/tournaments/s&g09/09CORP-OpenTourn_fly.pdf
intermediate and advanced
juniors should register.
Wintersun - S&H
Wintersun open Feb 6 – 8 at
Worldgate – enjoy the tournament ,
enjoy watching the PSA!
Intermediate and advanced
juniors should register and/ or play
Trifecta 3.
Juniors -
Trifecta 1 Bronze -
Dec 11 - 13 at Regency (all
juniors rated #67 and lower
should participate in this
tournament
http://www.aussienicksquash.com/juniors/tournaments/2009/trifecta1/09REG-BronzeTrifec_REG.pdf
Trifecta 2 Silver -
Jan 8 - 10 at Bethesda (all juniors
rated #34 and lower should
participate in this tournament
Trifecta 3 Silver -
Feb 5 - 7 at Worldgate (all juniors
rated #34 and lower should
participate in this tournament (this
is part of the PSA week event)
SIVL tournament
at Bethesda dates TBA – the
culmination of the SIVL program. The
SIVL is one of the largest HS
leagues in the US. This is a
compulsory tournament for the SIVL
players and is one of the largest
junior tournaments in the area. This
is a
closed event and open only to
SIVL players.
Leagues
Sport and Health
participates in and is the leader in the
NCS citywide league in all 5 divisions.
This season S&H won every division - a
credit to the hard work of the captains
and players. Winter season commences
late Nov/ early Dec. We will be running
division clinics before the start of the
season on the weekend of Nov 21 - 22.
New
staff
Welcome to Teddy Weiss new
assistant squash pro -
Teddy Weiss is a 2009
Vassar College graduate. While in
attendance, she was the Women's Varsity
Squash Two Year Captain, and competed
all four years. In 2008, as Captain, she
inspired her team to become division
champions by clinching the Walker Cup at
Nationals. Having co-founded the
National Capital Girls Squash Club in
high school, which included girls in the
DC-MD-VA area she is delighted to be
back. Teddy will serve as an Assistant
Squash Coach for Sport and Health. She
hopes to help players both new to the
game and veterans realize the joys and
benefits of tearing up the court!
Equipment
We have Black Knight,
Harrow and some Head stock available as
well as ASICS shoes - these will be
available for demos during the S&H open,
and Wintersun. Jay is doing restringing
at Bethesda and Worldgate.
Policy
We have received several
complaints lately about players
continuing to play on the court when
their time has finished and the next
player is waiting. Please show
consideration for the person who has
booked the court. The idea of 'we'll
just finish the game' does not apply if
it means you will be on the court for 10
or more minutes. If it is a few minutes
before the end of the hour consider not
starting a new game, agreeing to play to
say 5 points or agreing to leave the
court when the next person arrives.
Thank-you for your cooperation.
Contacts:
Connie Barnes, Director of
Squash C 301-807-9905, Email:cbarnes@sportandhealth.com
Rod Barnes, Squash Pro,
rbarnes@sportandhealth.com
Jay Naseem - Squash Pro -
jnaseem@sportandhealth.com
Teddy Weiss - Asst Squash
coach -
tweiss@sportandhealth.com
SIVL HONOR Board
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Year |
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Div 1 |
Captain |
Coach |
Div 2* |
Captain |
Coach |
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2009 -10 |
Champion |
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Runner up |
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2008 - 09 |
Champion |
Whitman |
J Barnes |
C Barnes |
Whitman |
M Becker |
C Barnes |
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Runner up |
Thomas Jefferson |
J Ho |
J Naseem |
Wilson |
J Naseem |
C Charendoff |
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2007 - 08 |
Champion |
BCC |
C Sieber |
C Barnes |
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Runner up |
Madeira |
E Shaw |
S Khan |
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2006 - 07 |
Champion |
Landon |
C Reilly |
C Barnes |
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Runner up |
BCC |
L Baily |
C Barnes |
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2005 - 06 |
Champion |
Bethesda S&H |
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C Barnes |
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Runner up |
Landon |
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C Barnes |
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S&H Summer Camps
Summer Camp Success! Sport & Health coaches
score
9.7 out of 10 on their coaching performances
Sport & Health broke the 100 participant
mark
for their 2009 summer camps
Director of Squash, Connie Barnes says,
"In May, it seemed the downturn in the
economy was taking its toll and that our
numbers might be lower than usual, however
with 40 children that registered for our
Junior Summer Camps in the last 2 weeks of
August, our record of 123 children attending
camps was achieved."
At Sport & Health, three types of camps
are offered. First, is the very popular
"Little Juniors" camp for 6 - 12 yr olds.
This camp includes squash and board games,
watching movies, swimming and more and the
kids have a great time while being active
and entertained. The second camp is
predominately for High school and Middle
school participants and ranges from
beginners to elite players. Squash training,
games, matches, technique and strategy,
strength and conditioning are focused on
during this camp. The camp has included
students from Episcopal, Potomac, BCC,
Whitman, WIS, Woodberry Forest, Pyle,
Wilson, Westland and several other local
schools as well as participants from as far
as New York. The third camp is for advanced
participants only and was well subscribed to
this year. Participants are generally the
top of their school teams really looking for
significant improvement over a 1 or 2 week
period. Students have been excited about
their level of improvement as most will be
playing for their school teams in Fall and
Winter as well as participating in National
Tournaments.
Barnes says, "To break the 100
participant mark has been a huge achievement
for Sport & Health. Besides developing the
largest and most comprehensive squash
program in the tri-state area with 5 clubs
and over 1,000 members, our major interest
has been on Junior development. When we
arrived in 2002 we had around 20 kids, we
now have over 250 who play at Sport & Health
clubs. To bring the joy of squash to
hundreds of youngsters and help develop the
next generation of players has been a
terrific privilege."
Thank-you to our fantastic coaches Rod
Barnes, Jay Naseem, Doug Baumgarten and
Bryan Keating for their tremendous effort.
Parents were asked to complete surveys
regarding camp expectations and whether
these were met. Sport & Health coaches
scored 9.7/ 10 on surveys for meeting
expectations for all camps
S&H players do well in
2009 Fisher Cup
Sport and Health Members have performed
well this year in the National Capital
Squash (NCS) city individual championships.
The individual championships are named the
Fisher Cup after Geoff Fisher, a stalwart of
Washington squash in the 1990s who sadly
died at a relatively young age. Pictured are
Bethesda's Bryan Keating (Finalist Div1,
Connie Barnes (Champion Women's A),
Jacqueline Barnes (Champion, Women's B),
Geoff Keating (Champion, Div 5) and
Regency's David Ayliff (Champion, Div 4).
Absent is Jeff Bede who was finalist in the
Div 5. Notable mentions for Bethesda's
Carlos Picone 3rd in Div 2 and Matt Dankner
3rd in Div 1.
Worldgate Squash News
Clinics, Racquet Demo, Junior Summer
Camp, Lessons, tips and more! by Doug
Baumgarten, April 2009.
Click here.
Regency
and Tenley Spring Clinics
Sport and Health head coach Jay Naseem is
offering spring clinics for adults at
Tenley and for adult and juniors at Regency.
The following links provide more details:
2009 Regency Adult Clinics
2009 Regency Junior Clinics
2009 Tenley Adult Clinics
Nice
Season Finish for Bethesda junior Jacqui
Barnes
It probably
not as surprising having two squash coaches for parents,
but it was nevertheless a stirring finish to
the 08/09 season for Bethesda's top U15
junior, Jacqui Barnes. After a relatively slow start to
the season, with her national ranking
slipping slightly, Jacqui had a lovely run
over the last few months. It all started when she captained
Whitman HS to a win in the Div 1 SIVL cup
(see below). She then placed runner up in
the U17 flight of the Trifecta 3 junior tournament, losing to a
good silver level player in the age bracket
above her natural. She followed this with a win in
the Women's 3.5 at the Potomac fever
(pictured right). Her run then culminated in
her best ach
ievement for the season, when over the first weekend in
April she won the National U15 Silver
Championships in Philadelphia. Coming in to
the tournament as 7th seed with a rating
significantly down on the top seeds, Jacqui
surprised the first and second seeds with
relatively easy wins along the way to taking
the title in a 29 person draw.
The win took her to 28 in the national
rankings.
The 14 yo has been
getting used to a lanky frame that is close
on 6 feet, many inches of which appeared
over the last year. It is not easy to
move around a squash court when you are
built like a young giraffe, but this has been greatly helped by
strength and fitness training sessions with
Sport and Health's Yongmei Ye who studied Jacqueline's movement and
developed the necessary training regime to
get her up to speed with some of the "little
rabbits" running around the nationals.
Post Note: Jacqui
Barnes has continued her winning way. In
April 2009 the Gazette newspaper picked up
her Silver's National win and posted
articles on the front page of the
Sport section (next to a picture of Tiger
Woods). The story was advertised on the
front page of the advertiser, next to Tiger
as well!. Click
here to read. In May Jacqui
cleaned up by winning the NCS Fisher Cup
Women C/D grades without losing a set, then
on that night was awarded "NCS most improved
player" for 2008/09. Father Rod
was heard to quip that the only thing
holding her back now is the big head she has
to drag around the court.
Jacqui also made the local HS newspaper
http://spec.theblackandwhite.net/print10/Page2.pdf
Whitman
HS Cleans up at SIVL. Division 1
and 2 winners
Congratulations to the Whitman division 2
squash team, who (with help from some Pyle
students) won the SIVL Division 2 (Sport &
Health Interclub Varsity League)
championships. Victory is even sweeter as
this comes after the Whitman division 1 team
also won. Other teams in the SIVL include
BCC, Landon, Wakefield, Thomas Jefferson,
Stone Ridge, Holton Arms and Madeira.
Jacqueline Barnes (Div 1 co-captain) was
awarded the trophy at a ceremony at
Worldgate Sport & Health prior to finals of
the National Capital Open on Feb 10 (a
$17,000 prize money event held each year).
Congratulations to the Division 1 players
who won on finals day vs Thomas Jefferson:
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Feb 6 at Bethesda S&H
TJs
VS Whitman |
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1 |
Thomas Merckens |
3 |
Jacqueline Barnes |
0 |
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2 |
Jeremy Ho |
3 |
Peter Fredman |
0 |
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3 |
Zachary Ho |
0 |
Eric Keen |
3 |
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4 |
Jack Franzen |
0 |
Michael Keen |
3 |
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5 |
Stacy Hong |
0 |
Matt Becker |
3 |
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6 |
Connor Cheong |
0 |
Jeremy Barnes |
3 |
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7 |
def |
0 |
Greg Bersen |
3 |
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Total |
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2-6 |
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5-15 |
(and to other players who participated
during the season) including:
Sam Talisman, Juan Camargo, Danny Goldstein,
Max Holtz
Congratulations to the Division 2 players
who won on finals day vs Wilson:
Greg Berson, Jeremy Barnes (Pyle), David
Goldman (Pyle), Brian Yuwen (Pyle),
Juan Camargo, Liam Rotzoll, Lauren McConnell
(and to other players who participated
during the season)
Sam Pastoriza (Pyle), Louisa Cahn - Gambino,
Kaia Diringer, Debbie Altman
15 of our squash players (including a high
percentage of girls) participating in the
SIVL have received calls from colleges
interested in talking to the players about
squash. Squash could the difference to help
your child receive a college spot because as
Gail Ramsay, Princeton Squash coach claims -
there are not enough kids to fill the
recruiting spots - see
http://nationalcapitalsquash.org
and this article on the right hand column
"And for Sports, Kid, Put Down Squash"
Spring squash starts on March 11, we hope
you can join us
http://www.aussienicksquash.com/juniors/schools/whitman/08BETH-Squash-Whitman.pdf
Upcoming Women's Local Squash
Events Winter 2008/2009
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Date
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Event
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Comments
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Sat 12/20, 2:00-5:00
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*Round robin
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Potomac Squash Club
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12/27-12/28
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Sun 1/4, 3:00-6:00
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*Round robin
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SCLA
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Sat 1/10, 11:30-1:30
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Rules & Referee Clinic
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Rod Barnes, Bethesda S&H, $25 fee
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Sun 1/11, 4:00-6:00
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*Round robin
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Results
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1/16-1/18
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Liberty Bell Open tournament
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King of Prussia,
PA
(MLK weekend; presidential
inauguration weekend)
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Sat 1/24, 2:00-5:00
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*Round robin
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Potomac Squash Club
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1/31-2/1
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2/1: Super Bowl
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Sun 2/8, 2:00-5:00
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*Round robin
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SCLA
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2/13-2/15
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Wintersun amateur tournament
(in conjunction with National
Capital Open PSA event)
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Worldgate S&H; President’s Day long
weekend
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2/20-2/22
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Woodruff-Nee tournament
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University Club
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2/28-3/1
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VSRA Virginia Open
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Richmond,
VA
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3/5-3/8
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Potomac Fever tournament
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Potomac Squash Club
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3/13-3/15
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Sun 3/22, 2:00-4:00
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*Round Robin
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Results
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3/28-3/29
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