Your home for Squash in Nova Scotia!
Please see the attached statement regarding an update to the Squash Canada COVID-19 Vaccination and Masking Policy.
Squash Canada Makes Further Updates to its COVID-19 Vaccination and Masking Policy
Squash Canada actualise sa politique de vaccination contre la COVID-19 et de port du masque
Hi everyone,
First off, congratulations to our winners, runners up and consolation draw winners. It is nice to see all of the Provinces represented in the winning circle. Special congratulations to those who were prize winners in two divisions you played a lot of exceptional squash to get there!
Division Winner Runner up Consolation
BU13 Owen Smith, NL Andrew Klein, NS Benjamin Woo, NS
BU15 Will Maclean, PEI Jack Foerster, NS Jack Comeau
GU15. Alexa Fleming, NL Brielle MacLean Zoe Boody, NS
GU19 Sophia Tulk, NL Adele Workman, NS Emily Gallant, PEI
BU19 Garreth Beckles, NS Emmet Workman, NS Ajout Balasundaram, PEI
Women Leah Boody, NS Niamh Campbell, NS Alexa Fleming, NL
Mixed 45+ Greg Platt, NB BJ MacLean, PEI Brad Beckett, NL
Mixed 1 Matt Bishop, NS Liam Jinks, PEI JM LeBlanc, NB
Mixed 2 Sam Gallant, NS Leah Boody, NS Richard Khan, NS
Mixed 3 Niamh Campbell, NS Jim Kennedy, NS Emma MacGillivray, NS
Mixed 4 Michael Howard, NS Agit Balasundaram, PEI Steven Hart, NS
Secondly, many thanks to all the volunteers, referees, our sponsor Oliver Sports Canada, and the provincial squash leadership teams from the Atlantic Region who all contributed to making this a successful event.
Also many thanks to Thomas Hori and Barb Cooper who conducted evaluations of Referees and Coaches respectively to help advance referees and coaches in their journeys. Congratulations to all of the coaches and officials who completed assessments! Also thanks to Squash Canada, Squash NS, Squash NB, Squash PEI and Squash NL who worked together to support the coaches in their qualification upgrades!
It was especially nice to see the 43 juniors, particularly the 30 U15s who participated in the tournament. It bodes well for the future of our sport to see so many youngsters competing. Good luck to you all in the future. Hoping to see some of you play for your respective provinces in the Canada Games coming in early 2023 in Charlottetown.
And finally, thanks to everyone who entered and competed for supporting the event, with special thanks to those entrants who traveled long distances to participate. We hope that you had safe journeys home!
Check out some pics from the tourney here https://m.facebook.com/SMUfitsquash/posts/4645478175564527
From your friendly neighbourhood Tournament Co-chairs Phil and Craig
Please see the COVID-19 update provided by Sport Nova Scotia on Tuesday December 21, 2021.
COVID-19 UPDATE DECEMBER 21, 2021
Today the Provincial government announced they would be making changes to the Nova Scotia Public Health Regulations that impact the Nova Scotia Sport Guidelines. These changes will come into effect as of 6:00am Wednesday December 22, 2021 and will remain in place until at least January 12 2022.
Games, Competitions & Tournaments:
Games, competitions and tournaments will no longer be permitted.
Practice and Training is permitted
A limit of 10 participants indoors and 25 outdoors applies to sports practices and training; physical distance is not required, and masks are recommended when possible indoors and outdoors.
Spectators Prohibited
No Spectators will be allowed for any activities
Travel for Sport Limitations still in place:
Children age 11 and younger continue to be restricted from entering Nova Scotia to participate in sports and from participating in them outside Nova Scotia.
There is no change in the requirement for proof of full vaccination for discretionary activities. It is still required for attendees and volunteers, even in places where gathering limits and physical distance will apply.
Please see today’s news release below or through the following link for more information on the new restrictions.
COVID-19 Update – December 13, 2021
Please see the message from Sport Nova Scotia below in regards to changes in Public Health regulations which impact sport in the province:
Today the Provincial government announced they would be making changes to the Nova Scotia Public Health Regulations that impact the Nova Scotia Sport Guidelines. These changes will come into effect as of 9:00 am Friday December 17, 2021 and will remain in place until reviewed in January 2022.
Gathering Limits:
– gathering limits of 50 per cent of capacity to a maximum of 150 people indoors and 250 outdoors apply for sports events that are hosted by a recognized business or organization.
Participant Limits:
-a limit of 60 participants indoors and outdoors applies to sports practices, games, and regular league play; tournaments are not allowed; physical distance is not required, and masks are recommended when possible indoors and outdoors.
Travel for Sport Limitations still in place:
– children age 11 and younger continue to be restricted from entering Nova Scotia to participate in sports and from participating in them outside Nova Scotia.
There is no change in the requirement for proof of full vaccination for discretionary activities. It is still required for attendees and volunteers, even in places where gathering limits and physical distance will apply.
Links:
Nova Scotia coronavirus website: https://novascotia.ca/coronavirus/
For more information about COVID-19 testing and online booking, visit: https://novascotia.ca/coronavirus/symptoms-and-testing/
Government of Canada: https://canada.ca/coronavirus or 1-833-784-4397 (toll-free)
After 10 weeks of Play HSL Session one is all wrapped up.
For the stats nerds here a few results
Undefeated Team Smash Bros (8-0)
Undefeated Players Mike Howard 7-0, Tim Manette 6-0, Jim Kennedy 6-0, Mike Cook 5-0 and Manny Drapeau 4-0
Most Active Player Rankings Lee Kirby 6-2, Mike Howard 7-0, Aran Brady 6-1, Abdo 5-2, Leanne Huck 5-2, Dave Thomson 5-2.
Tiebreaks
Both Div 1 and 2 went to tiebreaks for Second and Third places. In Div 1 CHP won over The Destroyers by winning more matches (17 vs 16) and in Div 2 Dal 3 edged out Dal 3 with the third tiebreak (Games won 62 vice 61).
Promotion and relegation.
SMU 4, the Div 2 winner is promoted to Div 1 and Dal 1 as the low team in Div 1 is relegated to Div 2. As we are looking to recruit at least two more teams to run 3 divisions of 4. The Convenors will look at how to divide up the teams into three divisions in a way that makes sense and will work to keep the divisions balanced and respect the session one promotion/relegations. Although the intent is to retain the same teams by and large, there will be a few adjustments made due to changes in ratings over the fall session.
New player intake for Session two is open (HSL Registration page on Club Locker) until Dec 30th.
If you registered as a full time player for session 1, you are already registered and do not need to do anything. If you registered as a part time player (spare), you can switch to full time by paying the difference between the entry fees for FT players and PT players.
The new session starts on Jan 5th
We hope to run at least two more sessions before closing up shop for the season and may consider running a summer league if anyone is interested.
Many thanks to our unofficial sponsor the Foggy Goggle! And to my co-Convenors Chis Lien, Jason Barnes and Dave Malyk and to all of the players.
Happy Squashing and see you all at the Goggle next Wednesday!
Phil Jourdeuil, HSL Convenor