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Cascades Club Fall Squash Open – $200 Winner Prize!
Players need to be fully COVID-19 vaccinated Total Tourney Field limited to about 32 players $200 prize for winner of A Draw A basic tourney to get competitive juices flowing Adult $45 / Student (under 26 YoA) $30 A,B,C,D (Mixed Gender Draws) 3 matches guaranteed (Thurs or Fri first match) Cash and other squash prizes
ODSA Open City League Update
After discussions with club representatives in the ODSA it has been decided to postpone the ODSA Open City League 2021/2022 season indefinitely. At the time of publishing this update, many clubs are still establishing and beginning to implement entry guidelines for their facilities and some facilities are not yet open. With the nature of how city league operates we need…
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Ron Hughes (1936 – 2021)
On August 25, the Ottawa squash world lost one of its finest coaches and organizers. Ron Hughes grew up in Calgary, graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago, and became a PE teacher in his hometown. He was an excellent gymnast and swimmer, and proficient at badminton and basketball. Ron later spent most of his life as a diplomat with the…
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Ottawa Squash Leader, Ian Milne, Passes On
Ian Milne was one of Ottawa’s most accomplished squash promoters and planners during the heyday of our game in the 1970s and 1980s. The ODSA was sorry to note the passing of Ian Milne at the age of 87, on March 20, 2021. Ian emigrated from Scotland to Canada in the 1960s and eventually settled with his family in Ottawa…
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ODSA Open City League 2020/2021 Season – Update
Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the ODSA Open City League 2020/2021 has been suspended until at least the end of 2020. We will assess the situation at the beginning of December to determine whether or not having a partial season will be possible in 2021, however it seems unlikely this will be possible so there is a good chance…
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2019/2020 ODSA Open City League Wrap Up
The 2019/2020 ODSA Open City League season unfortunately came to an abrupt close on March 11, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shut down of the entire world. This year saw 1415 individual matches involving 274 different players. Congratulations to this year’s league champions: WSQ1. After a slow start in warm-up session finishing 4th, WSQ1 followed it up…
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