Laughs, camaraderie and great team squash! Thirty-six adventurous & fun-loving doubles ladder players descended on the doubles court last Saturday for ESC’s first ever 1-day (free) mini-doubles squash tournament to celebrate the end of the inaugural doubles ladder season. The event was only open to doubles ladder participants and was generously sponsored by Pat Binns … Read more
Since the club has been open, we have always offered the ability to charge any items purchased from the front desk to your club account. Due to a recent increase in disputed charges, we will now require that people sign for any purchases made to their club account, including interclub team food purchases. Thank you … Read more
Congratulations to Team Alberta who won silver at last weekend’s Canadian Master’s Team Squash Championships. The team included ESC members Julie Multamaki and John de Vries, as well as RG head pro Pete Goodings. Julie won her match in the women’s #2 spot 3-2 in a 5 game thriller, and John won his match 3-0 … Read more
The ESC celebrated it’s 3rd birthday party on December 21st during our regular drop-in time with snacks, eggnog, ugly sweaters, ancient racquets and a Momo Challenge on court 3. There was some serious business afoot as well, with the club trying to raise $3,000 to help fund Momo’s trip to the British Junior Open. With … Read more
With the help of some great fundraising on the part of the Edmonton Squash Club extended family, Mohammed Elserafy will be competing in the British Junior Open in the U11 category from January 2nd-6th. The British Junior Open is considered the most prestigious Junior tournament in the world, with all participants having to be ranked … Read more
With the year winding down, we’d like point out a few major upgrades around the club that have been installed recently, and acknowledge all the members that helped financially and with volunteer work to make it happen. As many of you have no doubt noticed, we installed a new wireless microphone system to power the … Read more
Two weekends ago we had an incredible turnout for the ESC open, with 89 players participating making us officially oversubscribed! Next year we might have to consider starting on Thursday for Local players to accommodate everyone. Thank you to Jeff for organizing such a great tournament, Anne for making sure everything was set to go and … Read more
On the heels of a very successful trip to the Canadian Junior Open playing up an age bracket in U13, we are looking to help defray the costs of sending Mohammed Elserafy to play in his natural U11 category at the world’s most prestigious Junior tournament, the British Junior Open, in January. Playing in this … Read more
Refereeing squash is very difficult because there are so many grey areas. Although there are clearly defined rules (You can find the current squash rules here), there are so many situations where people disagree on the right call. Here’s a quote from the crew at PSA Live in answer to an audience question about refereeing. … Read more
We recently had a doubles member ask us how to find contact information for other club members. This is possible both in our court booking system, and our billing portal. Here’s a video to help out. Have any other questions about using our booking or billing system? Let us know, and we’ll make some tutorials … Read more
