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Minutes of the July Board Meeting
In-House Doubles Week of August 2nd
Summer Junior Squash Camp 2010 (reminder)
In-House Doubles Week of July 26th
In-House Doubles Week of July 19th
Minutes of the 2010 AGM Updated
Last updated:
2009.07.27 09:54
Another exciting and record breaking week of squash at the Evergreen Summer Doubles Tournament, July 14 to 19th. For the first time over 100 people representing 72 teams participated in 9 different divisions!! At this rate and each year reaching new levels of participation there's talk of capping the number of entries. We had entries from as far away as Toronto, San Francisco, Portland and Calgary.
The Women's Open was won (yet again) by local favorite Sue Kaffka and Karen Levine, who has just recently returned to Vancouver from New York. They beat Cathy Covernton & Annette Henwood in the finals. On the Men's side, Jason Giuffre and Ryan Herden beat Mike Leckie & Jason Del Vicario in a 3-1 convincing style.
The Mixed finals had Kirsteen Burton & Jeff Anderson from Toronto — who won the Mixed Division 2 last year — raise their game and beat the number 3 seeds first round and then in the semis beat the number 2 seeds of Mike Leckie & Kelsey Parsons 3-2 in come-from-behind fashion before losing in the finals to Tim Martin & Cathy Covernton 3-1. Nice work!!
Another success story was the rookie, 18 year old Robert Johnson, playing with his dad Kevin and winning the Mens Division One in grand style, 3-2 in the finals, over Kevin Gillett and Jim Miller. Incredible finish to a very successful first season for Robert. Well done!!
Full results are posted under the Draw tab.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank a number of people for making this one of our finest events. First of all, to thank Monica Beaumont who did a fantastic job as my assistant and organizing the Friday night barbeque and, along with her husband Charles Bristow, hosting the Saturday night house party. Both events were stellar and I couldn't have got through the week without Monica (and Charles pitching in too) being there especially on Wednesday, Friday & Sunday. I would also like to thank Rick Kochanski for all the work he put in with organizing the website and designing the online entry system; his work makes my job a lot easier. Also Richard & Lynn Dustan for doing another great job with the Grouse Grind Challenge in honour of Denis Fontaine, which was also a record in participation. I would also like to thank Doug Buchanan who organized the souvenirs and, despite the cancellation of the golf challenge, still put in a lot of time and effort to try and make it work. I hope the interest is there for next year as it is a great addition to this tournament. A thanks to Lynn Broman for getting the message out to everyone and Marv Mizinski, of squash BC, for helping with seedings and providing the balls.
A special thank you to our sponsors: Sue Kaffka and the Capilano Suspension Bridge for their kind donation of tickets; and Don Smerch / Freybe Sausage for helping out once again with product for our Thursday and Friday night barbeque.
Last but not least I would like to thank the Hollyburn Country Club and Vancouver Lawn Tennis & Badminton Club for donating their courts for this event.
And a thank you to all participants for making this our most successful summer event ever!
Mark Heaney