ESL Winners, ESC Championships Wrap-Up and Summer Program Info

Club News

Interclub Teams

The ESC was well represented at the Interclub Finals April 30th. Congratulations to the following ESC teams for winning their respective levels in the ESL Playoffs!

Men’s Level 2 Champions – The DILFS

Corey Stewart, Dave Besuyen, Chris Hubick, Jason Hubick, Casey McKenzie & Chris Hobbs

ESL 2016 Level 1 Women's Champions Double Trouble — ESL 2016 Level 1 Women’s Champions Double Trouble

Women’s Level 1 Champions – JBF/ESC Double Trouble

Julia Smith, Beth Marple (ESC), Kristina Hill, Diana Shaw (ESC), Janet Chapman, Marie Chudyk & Jaclyn Folkinga

ESL Level 2 Women's Champions Lob U & Leave U — ESL Level 2 Women’s Champions Lob U & Leave U

Women’s Level 2 Champions – ESC Lob U & Leave U

Donna McWhinnie, Margaret Fairbairn, Carolyn Kennedy, Janice Place, Heather Looy & Marilyn Brodeur

ESL Women Level 3 Champions We Are The E.S.C

Women’s Level 3 Champions – ESC We Are… The E. S. C.

Kym McDonald, Jeanine Auch, Caroline de Vries, Heather Sanregret, Amy Ellis, Chandra McQuarrie & Caroline Kirillo

Lastly, good effort to all of our 22 ESL teams this season! Next fall we’ll do even better with our teams having a home club for a full season!

Club Championships

Ibrahim Elserafy, ESC 2016 Men's Club Champion — Ibrahim Elserafy, ESC 2016 Men’s Champion – Open Division

2016 ESC Women's Club Champion Beth Marple — Beth Marple, 2016 ESC Women’s Open Champion

Congratulations to Men’s Open Club Champion – Ibrahim Elserafy & Women’s Club Champion – Beth Marple. Also congratulations to Doug Kirillo our Men’s B champion and Rob Music our Men’s C champion. We had a great weekend of squash for our inaugural squash club championships! Thank you to Dagmar Branding for producing our ESC water bottles (there are still a few for sale at the front desk), and Royal Pizza for catering our Friday night dinner. Thank you to everyone that participated.

Summer League

The Edmonton squash club is hosting two nights of summer league every week for the months of May, June, and part of July. We are excited for the 104 entries in our two nights of Summer League. Those nights have an incredible atmosphere and everybody’s having a blast!

Women’s Drop-in

Edmonton Squash Club held our inaugural Women’s Summer Drop-In Wednesday, May 18th at 6:45pm – 9:00pm. This drop-in will run every second Wednesday through the summer months. Here are the dates:

May 18, June 1, 15 & 29, July 13 & 27, and August 10 & 24

All are welcome and encouraged to attend, including non-members. It is an opportunity to stay in touch during the summer and play in a relaxed environment, and maybe even try some doubles. If you have a friend/family member who is interested in playing Squash this is a great opportunity for them to experience the sport and meet some great people.

There is no drop-in fee for non-members, however we are asking you to donate $5.00 per visit to the Junior Squash fund.

All women will receive a 10% discount off the pro-shop and food and beverage during the drop-ins.

We hope you can join us for some summer Squash and lots of fun.

No need to register, just show up and play!

If you have any questions, please contact me at the ESC 780-306-2395 or Caroline de Vries 780-966-5507

We look forward to seeing you!

Adult Competitive Training

The Edmonton Squash Club will be hosting adult competitive training sessions on Monday nights starting May 30th. This program will improve your squash game while focussing on technique, tactics, and court movement while using video analysis using our PlaySight system, the Squash Cannon Ball Machine, and the Footworker!

We are planning on offering two groups and will separate the two groups based on their level of play.

If you haven’t signed up already contact Jeff ASAP to reserve a spot.

Learn to play Squash

We will be offering a Learn to play Squash program on Wednesday evenings starting May 25th @ 6pm. For anyone interested or any squash players that have friends that would benefit from this program please make sure they sign up!

To reserve a spot make sure they contact Jeff ASAP.

Improve Your Backhand Return of Serve

Ibrahim made a short video about how to use the PlaySight cameras and the Squash Cannon ball machine to improve your backhand return of serve. Let us know what you think in the Youtube comments section.

Squash News

PSA World Tour Results

The most recent big PSA event on the men’s tour was in El Gouna in Egypt. Ultimately Mohamed El Shorbagy (EGY) prevailed in a thrilling 5-game, 90 minute final against Greg Gaultier (FRA), bringing his PSA world tour championships tally up to 6 in a row.

On the women’s side, Nour El Sherbini (EGY) came from 2 games down against Laura Massaro (ENG) to take the $185k Women’s World Championships in Malaysia and, in doing so, became both the youngest ever Women’s World Champion and also the new Women’s World #1.

The last big stop of the year on the PSA world tour will be in Dubai in front of the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building with play beginning on May 24th.

The Canadian Nationals took place in Toronto, Ontario from May 4-7th and there was plenty for Albertans to cheer for. After coming runner-up the past two years, Andrew Schnell of Calgary claimed the top prize on the men’s side, with his brother Graeme also finishing on the podium with a 3rd place finish. On the women’s side, Danielle Letourneau of Calgary made it to game 5 in the championship game before falling to Hollie Naughton. You can view the replay of the championships here.