Home of Squash in Eastern Ontario, The NCR and The Outaouais
Goodlife Queensview hosted 48 players in five draws, with competitors from Toronto and Sudbury each capturing two titles. Three players from Montreal also took home prizes. Eleven year old Iman Shaheen took the remaining title (GU 17), while other ODSA juniors placed highly in all events. Iman, a product of the Walter Baker Sports Centre’s training program, is currently 9th in the…
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On Feb 1, Barrett Aass of the Ottawa Athletic Club was honoured at the 2016 Ottawa Sports Awards as Ottawa’s Top Squasher. The write-up from the Sports Awards website is below: This keen young squash player has all the talent and energy to climb up the ladder fast. Barrett is an active member of the OAC squash club and plays…
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On February 11-12, at Goodlife Fitness (Queensview), 50+ players will converge in Ottawa to contest the 6th Squash Ontario silver junior tournament of the season. At least 15 players are coming from Montreal, Sudbury, Toronto and Quebec, including a 5 player squad from Toronto’s Urban Squash Club. As Tournament Organizer Heather Wallace says ” it is a great opportunity for…
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Congratulations to Jim Kenward who is one of the 2017 inductees into the Squash Ontario Hall of Fame. Jim is being inducted as a builder for his work in preserving and chronicling the history of squash in Ontario. From the Squash Ontario website: Jim Kenward, will be inducted as a builder. The Ontario Squash Hall of Fame has two specific missions –…
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Over the weekend of January 27 to 29, 59 men and 13 women took part in the RA Centre’s Winter Open tournament. Out-of-towners took the Men’s Open, A and C crowns. David Baillargeon (PSA #139), of the Club Sportif MAA defeated fellow Montrealer Pranav Sharma (PSA #405) 3-0 in the Open final. Mario Gagnon, from Quebec City won the A division…
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Squash Ontario is hosting a Masters Team Tourney during the weekend of Feb 24-26, at The White Oaks Squash Club in Niagara on the Lake. New this year is that Squash Ontario is allowing us, as the ODSA, to enter a team comprised of players from the Ottawa and Outaouais side of our region. With that in mind ODSA would…
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Between January 13 and 15, 2017, Smiths Falls Squash Club hosted their annual tournament. In addition to locals, the exhibition match between Shady Elkamhawy and David Guest, and the five other events attracted players from Brockville, Gananoque, Kingston, Ottawa, and Timmins to this most enjoyable weekend. Exhibition Shady Elkamhawy (OAC) def. David Guest (OAC) 3-2 A Division Clark Johnston (RA…
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Congratulations to the Quebec #1 team of Alexandra Norman, Runa Reta, and Tara Newman, who beat the favoured Alberta team of Jackie Moss, Kelsey Souchereau, and Jaime Laird in the final of the 2017 Canadian Women’s Team Championship. Played at La Sportheque, January 6 – 8, the tournament attracted eight teams, with final standings as follows: Quebec 1 Alberta Ontario…
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