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The ODSA is accepting nominations for 2018’s Ottawa’s Top Squasher award, to be presented at the Ottawa Sports Awards. This is for the calendar year of 2018. If you have someone you would like to nominate, please fill out the form below! Please note that this award is only open to Ottawa residents only.
Goodlife-Queensview Pulls Off a Highlight of Ottawa Season Between November 1st and 4th, Heather Wallace, former World No. 3, 11 time Canadian champion, and pro at Queensview for more than 30 years, enthusiastically guided Queensview’s hosting of the PSA Women’s World Tour $11,000 event in Ottawa, plus other local events, and an excellent exhibition match. On the last day,…
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The Sportheque Oktober Squash Fest took place October 21-23, and attracted 54 competitors, with a sizeable contingent from Montreal. In the Open event, Maxym Leclair won the 4 player round robin, losing only one game in his three matches. Fernando Hernandez placed 2nd by avenging his defeat by David Guest, in September’s ODSA Rust Remover event, in a thrilling 5…
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Squash Gloucester hosted the annual ODSA Rust Remover tournament (Sept. 28-29), which attracted 38 players, including two each from Kingston and Montreal, and the winner of the C-D Division, Lee Miller of Trenton. In the main event final, David Guest resumed his winning ways, with a 13-15, 11-6, 11-3, 6-11, 11-1 victory over Fernando Hernandez of Montreal’s Club Sportif MAA….
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The RA Summer Open (Aug. 23-25) attracted entries from 10 different clubs, including two in Kingston. In the “A” event, Nick James, new-comer to Ottawa from Vancouver, beat Stephane Lussier in 4 thoroughly entertaining games, 11-7, 11-7, 9-11, 11-4. Stephane had beaten Nicolas Dupont in five on Friday night, and then upset top seed David Guest in a come-from-behind 5 setter…
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From July 30th to August 5th, 755 players from 59 countries descended on the McArthur Squash Center in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA hosted the 2018 WSF World Masters Squash Championships. That included 7 players from the ODSA who made the trip to Virginia to take place in this bi-annual event. Results from our players are below as long as personal accounts…
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Greatly respected, both on and off the court, Steve Wren reached the pinnacle of his squash career when, on June 23, he was elected, by his peers across Canada to be President of Squash Canada, a position not filled from the Ottawa/Gatineau area, since the 1930s. Steve left his native New Zealand in 1986, to be a Squash Pro in…
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The OAC Summer Squash Splash event, held June 22 – 23, attracted 27 players in the A, B, and C Divisions, with winners being Matt Arkett (RA), Assad Khan (RA), and Jay Park (Goodlife QV – a newcomer from Vancouver) Division A Winner – Matt Arkett (RA Centre) Runner-Up – Stephen Rush (Goodlife Queensview) Semi-Finalist – Josh Renaud (OAC) Semi-Finalist…
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