Who will be the champion of the Beatdown in E-town PSA Pros vs ESC Pros be? Rank the order of the finishers for the round-robin tournament. If you guess the correct order of the finishers you will be entered in a draw and could win $25 to the ESC Pro Shop!
We’d like to bring an important event to your attention founded and run by ESC member Rob Deltombe. When Rob was in undergrad at the UofA his grandmother passed away from a brain tumour and he made a promise that he would raise $1 million for cancer research in his lifetime. He started shovelling driveways … Read more
We’re not always just about squash. We’re wondering, what’s your favourite Edmonton Festival?
Congratulations to ESC members Anthony Looy and Rob Music for achieving their 300th and 200th blood plasma donations respectively! Anthony started donating blood all the way back in 1985 at the suggestion of his then-girlfriend and now squash-playing wife Heather as a good and easy thing to do. He donated whole blood back then, but … Read more
Recently Amanda Sobhy wrote an article for Squash Magazine talking about her love for the North American Hardball Doubles game. After suffering a devastating Achilles rupture in Cartagena, Columbia in 2017, Sobhy talks about how her return to professional competition was first in two doubles tournaments which she saw as a great way to get … Read more
Mike Fouts from Overhaul Fitness has kindly taken the time to write us a nutrition primer focussed on squash. Learn About Squash Nutrition In it, he breaks down the body’s main energy stores, and how they are used while doing different types of exercise. For squash players who engage in medium to longer rallies, … Read more
For our bi-weekly poll, we are curious whether you stretch before your match, after your match, or not at all. Stretching prior to exercise is controversial, with a number of studies suggesting the static stretching prior to performing decreases power with no real reduction in injury risk, however it is likely that recreational athletes do … Read more
Thank you to everyone who filled in our year-end survey. As a member-owned not-for-profit club, we want to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to the benefit of our members and we want as many voices heard as possible to guide our decisions. Overall we found that people are very positive about the … Read more
Everyone has a different way of warming up during the 5-minute knock-up before a game. What’s your style before hitting the ball over to your opponent? Background reading: http://www.squashgame.info/ Official WSF Rules, section 4: http://www.worldsquash.org Results A few hits and then pass it over was the strong winner – good on ‘ya!
Congratulations to Molli Hay and Antonella Rodriguez who made the Alberta 2018-19 Girls U17 and Girls U13 teams respectively. We’ll keep everyone updated on how things go for them next year. The full team announcement can be found on the Squash Alberta page.
