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Anything but A’s – Entry Deadline Jan. 15

Dear Players,

We are 14 days away from hosting the 3rd annual “Anything But A’s Singles Classic” presented by “Martin Sign Company” at the University Club of San Francisco. The goal of this tournament is to bring players together and enjoy the game we all love. This is a way to meet other players from the community while having a great time. To enter the tournament please us this Sign-Up Here – Anything But A’s Classic!.

Date: January 24 – 25, 2020
Host Club: University Club of San Francisco
Organizer: Busani Xaba, busani@uclubsf.org
Register by: Wednesday, January 15 @ noon (Deadline is fixed)

Entry Fee: $60 per person
Early bird: $50 (Early bird ends January 10, 2020)
Late Entry: $100(After January 15, 2020, at noon)

Eligibility: B Players = 4.9 – 4.0 | C Players = 3.9 – 3.0 | D Players = 2.9 and below.

Includes: Hospitality will include beer and wine on Friday night. Guest are invited to join members in the club bar after matches are over. On Saturday lunch will be provided with an afterparty at a bar (TBD) serving pizza with an open bar for the first hour.

Start Time: Matches will be scheduled for Friday, January 24 from 4 pm – 9 pm. Busani will send your start times by Monday, January 20th at noon.

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Come to BayClub Redwood Shores for the PSA $1K Bayside Open!

Squash Fans!

NorCal Squash has teamed up with Bayside Redwood Shores to host this weekend’s latest PSA event, the 2019 Bayside Open. The tournament runs Wednesday-Saturday at Bay Club Redwood Shores.

Featured pros contending for the $1,000 purse include Mustafa Nawar, currently ranked #157 in the world, Charlie Johnson, Armando Olguin, and Cole Becker. Star college players Lawrence Kuhn (now an assistant pro at BCRS) and Mexico’s Cesar Segundo will also be battling it out, along with some top locals.

Come check out the first round action starting Wednesday, December 18, at 5pm on the 17″ tin!

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PSA 1K and Women’s Invitational at Squash Zone Aug. 20th-24th

Squash Zone invites you to watch matches for the

10th Street American Whisky PSA 1k and Women’s Invitational

Tuesday August 20th

Qualifying Matches – 4 matches play starts at 5pm

Wednesday August 21st

First round matches – 16 draw – two courts starting at 5pm

Thursday August 22nd

Quarter final matches starting at 5pm

Friday August 23rd

Whisky Tasting during the eve sponsored by 10th Street Distillery

Men’s and Women’s semi-finals starting at 5:30pm

Women’s invitational players are:

Sam Cornett – Canada – Current PSA Ranking #32

Lisa Aitken – Scotland – Current PSA Ranking #37

Marina Stefanoni – USA – Current PSA Ranking #70 and US Squash ranking # 1 GU19

Serena Daniel – USA – US Squash Ranking # 8 GU19, highest ranking local junior player

Saturday August 24th

Men’s and Women’s Finals starting at noon.

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NorCal Squash Team Tournament Playoffs 2019

NorCal Squash’s annual team tournament wrapped up with some spectacular squash at the Bay Club San Francisco April 19-21. The top teams in four divisions represented the Bay Area from Marin to San Jose and San Francisco to San Ramon. Congratulations to all the players for a great season and making it into the finals. After many hard fought matches the winners were:

Division 1
1st place: the Bay Club Santa Clara, captain Jimmy Li
2nd place: the Olympic Club, captain Kenneth Chan
3rd place: the Bay Club Santa Clara, captain Venkitachalam Gopalakrishnan

Division 2
1st place: the Bay Club Marin, captain Nathaniel Mosse
2nd place: Oakland Tinmen, captain Kim Ben Khoo
3rd place: Divone 2, captain Vivek Ravi

Division 3
1st place: the Bay Club Santa Clara, captain Mehma Jolly
2nd place: UCSF 3, captain Michael Song
3rd place: the Bay Club Marin, captain Sam Swire

Division 4
1st place: the Bay Club Santa Clara, captain Rachel Yun
2nd place: Squash Zone 4, captain McGee O’Neil
3rd place: the Bay Club Cupertino, captain Jude Tantawy

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Save the Date: NorCal Squash Team Tournament and Members Dinner

Dear Members,

Join us for the annual 2019 NorCal Squash dinner, celebrating the league teams battling for first place, this years MVP, and most importantly you. Without your continued support and passion for the sport we would not be able to make the strides in accessibility, inclusion, and level of play we have been able to achieve. The dinner is free of charge to all current members of NorCal Squash.

Where:
Urban Curry
523 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133

When:
6:00-10:00pm 20 April, 2019

Space is limited, please RSVP to northerncaliforniasquash@gmail.com

In addition to the dinner, the team tournament playoffs will be held at the Bay Club San Francisco April 19-21. Teams from across the Bay Area and Sacramento will be battling for the top spot across all four divisions. Come cheer on your local players while enjoying light refreshments.

Sincerely yours,

Emilie Van Der Hoorn and the NorCal Board

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Squash Zone Member’s Handicap Tournament

Squash Zone Member’s Handicap Tournament

32 players of California’s finest descended to Squash Zone’s courts on Saturday 1st December at 1p.m.

The concept of the tournament – each player has a handicap of + or – points related to their rating and played 1 game to 15 points – was new to most but our erstwhile players soon got the hang of it! All were welcome, newcomers and seasoned warriors alike. The top seeds were put to the test in the early rounds with unforced errors being the undoing of some of our more experienced members. A standout was 10 year old James Yan nearly taking out one of eventual finalist Andy Michael who just edged out the game 15-14 in the 5th!

We had main, consolation and plate rounds with all competitors coming away with 3 matches and a very fashionable Ligeti Open t-shirt courtesy of Norcal and Kiersten Ligeti of Alain Pinel realtors. Our Plate final was contested between Joel Berger and Adam Stein with Joel pipping Adam at the final post. In the Consolation final it was youth versus experience with junior member Aadi Chaudra putting huge effort into stopping the onslaught from Aharon Weiner. Weiner prevailed but not without feeling the pressure from the ever improving Chaudra. In the main event, Kevin Sacherman came up against Andy Michael whose words to Sacherman ‘Do you know I used to play your father?’ must have given Sacherman an early psychological edge as he stormed to a convincing victory taking home the trophy (a box of chocolates) and immense honour!

This was a fun event and the Squash Zone team really enjoyed hosting the players, first of many to come!

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Adult Squash Clinic with Ian Thomas

The University Club San Francisco is proud to host Ian Thomas, the coach to the Shorbagy brothers who are currently #1 & #4 in the world. He will spend the session focusing on:

How to improve your game by self hitting.

How to improvise during a game.

General tips about your game.

The clinic will be held this Thursday, December 6, from 6:30-8:30 PM. Slots are available on a first come first served basis, so be sure to sign up soon!

Contact Busani Xaba if you have any questions.

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NorCal Squash League 2018-19 Season

The start of the 2018-19 NorCal Squash League is approaching, with this years season running from mid-October through April. The league is a great way to get to know the squash community better and play competitive matches against other clubs in the area. Currently the regions include the Peninsula League, the SF City League, the East Bay League, and the Sacramento League. There is play across all divisions, from div. 1 which includes local pros through to div. 4 for those just starting to pick up the sport. Each team consists of 6-10 players, with matches against opposing teams played every two weeks. Four players from each team play each other during a match night, with best of five, rally point games. For a full explanation of the setup and rules, please click here.

For more information regarding the league, and for information on joining, please contact us!

San Francisco – Emilie van der Hoorn
East Bay – Waqas Khan
Peninsula – Michael Corbett
Sacramento – Abel Orozco

Participating clubs include: ClubSport Fremont, ClubSport San Ramon, Oakwood Athletic Club, Active Sports Oakland, Berkeley Rec Sports, Bay Club Cupertino, Rahmat Khan & HAQ International Squash Academy, Bay Club Redwood Shores, Bay Club Santa Clara, Stanford, Squash Zone, University Club, Bay Club San Francisco, University California San Francisco, Olympic Club, Bay Club Marin, Broadstone Racquet Club, Cross Court Athletic Club, Gold River Racquet Club, Laguna Creek Racquet Club, and Rio del Oro Racquet Club.

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Women’s Team Tournament at the BCSF

Squash is a seminal component of many women’s social lives; in fact we call it the “Squash Sisterhood.” On Saturday, September 8, the Bay Club San Francisco hosted a friendly team tournament and social event that brought together women from the Norcal region for competition, catching up, and meeting new players. The group ranged from those of us who have been playing together for the past 12 years to newer participants who are recent college grads or new arrivals to SF. Squash provides an instant sense of community in today’s transient society, particularly in San Francisco. Over 40 women attended, including local female pros Lauren Patrizio, Aisling Blake, and Shirin Kaufman.

There were 8 teams, each comprised of an A,B,C, and D player. Congratulations to the winning team, with Izzy Weisman (Club Sport San Ramon), Courtney Sabo (Bay Club San Francisco), Amara Warren (Bay Club San Francisco) and Jessica Lanham (University California San Francisco) taking home bragging rights for the year.

]1 From left to right: Amara, Courtney, Izzy, and Jess

All divisions had a great roster, particularly the women’s D division which was oversubscribed to and had a round robin in conjunction with the team tournament. Armando Olguin has been working with many women in a Monday night clinic at the Bay Club San Francisco and the group of D players has grown as a result of his coaching and encouragement. Thank you to longtime player Jacinta Corbet for her work in organizing and helping out with the women’s D round robin!

Norcal Squash kindly provided water bottles and squash balls for the event and the Bay Club San Francisco provided the courts. There was a lot of energy and enthusiasm for continuing the tradition of a monthly women’s round robin, in addition to the annual women’s team tournament. Next months women’s round robin is hosted by Cathy Gregory at Stanford on October 13 at 2:00pm in Palo Alto. We anticipate that we will meet again in November at Oakwood Athletic Club in Lafayette, stay posted for more details and be sure to stay up to date on women’s squash events on Facebook.

By Carrie Kahn


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Latitude 38 Open 2018

Join the Bay Club San Francisco for the annual Latitude 38 Open Singles tournament!

Registration is now open at https://www.ussquash.com/TOURNAMENTS/, search for upcoming tournaments in California to find the 2018 Latitude 38 Open. The juniors gold runs from September 21 to September 23, followed by the open/adult group September 28 to September 30. Tournament entry includes food, shirts, and admission to early round matches for the Oracle Netsuite Squash Open held at the Bay Club September 28. For any questions please contact the tournament director Gareth Webber at (408)-402-1900.