WSF Approved eyewear

It has come to Squash South Africa’s notice that the correct  WSF accredited protective eyewear is not being used.

For doubles and for players under 19 the correct eyewear MUST be used. All players under 19 – whether in or out of school – MUST wear protective eyewear at ALL tournaments/league matches.

Provinces/Tournament Organisers PLEASE enforce the use of the accredited eyewear.

Particularly concerning is the use of the eyeware bought at hardware stores –  a plastic shard in someone’s eye and perhaps the loss of that eye is worth a lot more than the price paid for the eyewear.

In the United States everyone including coaches are not allowed to step on the court if they do not have protective eyewear on.

Here is the list of approved eyewear: WSF Approved eyewear 2018

Liz Addison

National Director

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Big turnout at 2018 NSF Awards function

The Northerns Squash Federation held their annual awards function at the Voortrekker Monument on Thursday evening with a large number of people attending to celebrate the province’s success story of the 2018 season.

Northerns have had an exceptional season on all levels, especially at junior and senior level. The province won the Gary Thompson award for the most successful province at the senior Growthpoint IPT after winning the Men’s C & D sections and performing well in the other sections too. Individual players also won a variety of awards at the IPT.

The juniors weren’t far behind, winning 9 medals out of 13 teams that participated in the age group IPT’s, including 3 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze. A record number of 14 juniors made the SA Top 10 rankings and 3 Northerns players were selected to play in the WSF World Junior championships.

Here is a summary of the major awards for the evening:

MASTERS

  • Player of the year: Craig Ruane
  • Chairman’s awards: Anna Botha & Bertus Kruger

JUNIORS

  • Primary schools players of the year: Luhann Groenewald & Awande Malinga
  • u14 players of the year: Brett Mclachlan & Deneil Beukes
  • Senior players of the year: Mikael Clayton & Helena Coetzee
  • Chairman’s awards: Reece Mclachlan & Helena Coetzee

SENIORS

  • Blitz league winners: Harlequins (Ladies) & PCC (Men)
  • League winners: Harlequins (Ladies) & Uitsig (Men)
  • Growthpoint IPT Best of the rest: Callan Hall & Donna Lobban
  • Growthpoint IPT D section winners: James Terblanche, Jason Phillips, Wesley Daniels, Nico Ras, Wayne Muller
  • Growthpoint IPT C section winners:Mikael Clayton, Nell van der Merwe, Craig Ruane, Murray Schepers, Jarrad Rocher
  • Justin van der Merwe tropyhy: Mat Dewey
  • Pieter Bell trophy: Kundanji Kalengo
  • Uitsig trophy: SABS & SARB
  • Woody Kaiser trophy: PCC
  • NSA player of the year: Callan Hall
  • NSA Chairman’s award: Andrew Martin & Kyle Maree

NSF AWARDS

  • NSF President’s award: Mike Pierce
  • NSF player of the year: Craig Ruane

Here is a full list of all the award winners: NSF Awards 2018

Photos of the evening can be seen on https://www.northerns.co.za/galleries/2018-nsf-awards-function/.