Ladies night - Weds from 6.30pm Mens beginners - Tues from 7pm Club night - Thurs from 7pm
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Membership renewals
Invoices have now been sent and thanks to all those who have already paid their memberships. A reminder that the one month discount will be applied in the case of memberships paid by 30 April. Please correspond regarding any change of membership category.
Ladies Superchamps training, Sats 9-11am from 24th April
This will start in two weeks and, now that the fencers only require one court, 3 courts will be available. Our first training group of Sam, Siri, Laura & Catie has been formed but there is scope for a further group. Ernie will be running this programme with support from other M1 players.
Please let me know asap if keen to enrol.
Autumn Interclub penultimate round tomorrow
Of the teams below W2 (Janice) have a tough encounter tomorrow as top team with a match-up against the team lying second. W3 (Shahrane'e) lying top play the bottom team and M3 (Rhys) also placed top take on the 4th team ahead of a top 2 match-up next week. W1 (Sam) lying 5th take on the bottom team in a crunch encounter. M3 (Graham) as league leaders take on the 4th placed team in a chance to get ahead on the table. M1 (Ernie) lying 3rd take on the top team and will hope that Brent is ready to resume at top seed.
League positions;
M1: 3rd
M2:1st
M3:1st=
W1: 5th
W2: 1st
W3: 1st
New members & grade improvements
Welcome to Marcello Munoz who joins as a casual player with previous social experience, he should add to our Tuesday mens beginner night ranks.
Tournaments
Herne Bay Open Apr 16/18 - $40/ person (J grade $30)
Devonport Masters May 6/8- $30/ person (>35yo) Belmont Ladies D/E/F May 14/16- $25/ person
(Over 19yo, one game on Fri & 2 on Sat) Panmure PSA Open May 14/16- $40/ person Auckland Open May 27/30- $40/ person
Superchamps Aug 4/8 (gradings June 11)
We now have Ernie and three of the ladies enrolled for the Herne Bay tournament and other graded players might also like to enrol. Some of our younger ladies are also keen to play at Belmont.
All local tournaments can be entered via i-squash here.
CLUB REFS EXAM
Great to see our club remaining top of the refs table even before our new trio of ladies gained their certification.
It will be good to get some of our experienced junior players certified which will be a focus at junior coaching tomorrow.
Gear available
Catch me at the club if you'd like to check them out.
Tecnifibre Carboflex 135g $190
Grips (incl re-gripping): $5
Single yellow ball: $7
New range of rackets arriving shortly, don't buy just yet!!
A massive week at our club nights with 25 members participating and gaining practice ahead of key interclub games tomorrow. Good to also see some racketball being played.
Look forward to seeing you either Monday or Thursday this week.