Jamaica Squash gets busy

JAMAICA SQUASH has been seeing increased action on the courts at the Jamaica Liguanea Club in New Kingston and the Senior Common Room (SNR) at the University of the West Indies campus in Papine with varying activities to attract new players and to provide continuing competition for its members.

First there was the Women’s Squash Week from September 16 to 22, which focused on attracting female players to the sport. There were several females who heeded the call to be introduced to the sport under the guidance of Karen Anderson, a former national player, long-time national coach and president of Jamaica Squash.

The training sessions were conducted at the SNR with the final session, which included actual games, held last Saturday at the Liguanea Club. That session was dubbed Ladies Lyme and Round-Robin Games. Anderson was pleased with the response to the week.

The second set of activities took place the week just ended at the Liguanea Club with ongoing competitions and will culminate on Friday night with the finals of the Liguanea Club Open Handicap competition.

That will see three finals starting with Nabeel Jawad and Leigh Dwyer, then Jemel Sterling and Handel Emery, ending with Joey Levy and Mario O’Connor.

The open handicap tournament is open to all the members of the club and has seen a high level of participation among the membership of Jamaica Squash.