An excellent result for Scotland’s squad in Portugal at the 2012 Under 19 European Team Championships.
The No.11 seeds included Harrow’s Dougie Kempsell, Rosie Allan and Kirsty Lobban as well as Jamie Henderson and Chris Leiper; and they performed brilliantly in the ‘Pool C’ matches beating most impresssively Germany, but also Holland and Poland. These wins secured them a quater-final match against the Czech Republic which they also won 3-0.
The team then went on to play England in the semi-final, where unfortunately they narrowly lost 2-1 (to the eventual winners) but none the less they were the only team to take a tie from England.
In the 3rd/4th place play off match they eventually lost out to France 2-1, but to finish 4th, having been seeded 11th, was a massive achievement and the best result for almost 25 years (since 1988).
A special mention must got to Harrow’s Dougie Kempsell who won 7 out of 7 matches in the Tournament – a fabulous achievement.
If you’d like to see the results have a look here for the teams & here for individual results
Also SSq match reports are available:
here for Day 1
here for Day 2
here for Day 3
The Scottish Squash team of Alan Clyne, Harry Leitch, Chris Small, Lyall Patterson, Lisa Aitken and Frania Gillen-Buchert flew out to today to compete in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
And the hunt for a medal in both the men’s doubles and the mixed doubles is the main target for the team; although I’m sure an individual medal would not be turned down either!
Good luck to the team (hope the athletes village is finished and clean!)
Harrow’s Chris Leiper won the 2009/10 ’Peter Nicol Grampian Junior Player of the Year’ award this season and not only that but Peter was on hand to present the trophy in person.
Chris has had many successes this season including a top 3 finish in the Under 17s at the Welsh Junior Open , top 3 in the Under 17s Scottish Nationals (both events were European Grand Prix event) and Chris has been selected to represent Scotland at No.1 for the under 17s European Team Tournament this May in Prague.
All this and he’s Ranked at number 2 in Scotland for the under 17s. Congratulations Chris on a fantastic year’s squash.
Win for Scotland in Under 20 Test Match – West players Kevin Moran and Morgan Maguire were part of the winning Scotland team over the weekend against Wales and England.
The two teamed up with Chris Ferguson (who plays for Giffnock in the West Leagues), Sam Allan and Mhairi Charlton to clinch the U20 trophy by 78 points to Englands 75 points. To see the full results click here
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The Scottish Squash Performance Director Paul Frank (pic left) has resigned his position as of 1st February 2010.
Paul was in charge for over six years and was instrumental in setting up the very successful training programmes at Herriot Watt University, where many of Scotland’s top young players have the opportunity to train and develop their squash on a permanent basis within a well structured training camp. Read more…
News just in that bad weather conditions has meant that the Scotland team can’t travel to Cardiff to play the scheduled ‘B’ International Test matches this week against Wales and England. Their plane from Edinburgh was cancelled earlier this morning due to the snowy conditions in Edinburgh.
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The Scottish Junior Open (Mon 28th Dec – Thurs 31st Dec) is part of the European Junior Tour and once again has attracted some of Scotland’s and the Worlds Top names from all age groups.
The Jordanian Brothers Mohammad and Ahmad Alsaraj will lead the charge in the Boys U13 and U15 as they have European rankings of No.#2 and No.#1 respectively in their age groups.
To see how everyone is getting on click on the age category you’re interested in:
Boys’ Results - U19 U17 U15 U13 U11 Girls’ Results - U19 U17 U15 U13 U11
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The men’s uni champions for 2009 are Napier and Dundee lifts the women’s title in The Scottish University Championships.
For a full report and to hear about a 1st round exit for defending Champions Glasgow against this year’s strong favourites (and eventual winners) please click this link.
The Scotland’s Under 17 European Silver medal winning squash team were honoured by the First Minister, Alex Salmond at a special reception in the capital, to celebrate ‘Scottish Sporting Success’. The First Minister praised Scottish sporting success throughout the year, and afterwards took time to meet with the European silver medal winning team.
The West’s own Morgan McGuire from David Lloyd in Renfrew along with her team mates Greg Lobban, Douglas Kempsell, Ally McCorquodale and Mhairi Charlton (and coach Robin Hamill) all met Alex Salmond, who they told their story of success along with future goals, upcoming competitions and ongoing training schedules.
What a fantastic success for our U17 side and many congratulations to them all.
An excellent result for Scotland’s squad in Portugal at the 2012 Under 19 European Team Championships.
