Category: Squash

Cambridgeshire Junior County Closed Results

What a fantastic weekend! Our aim was to make this year’s event special to help rejuvenate the championships and to give a boost to the Cambridgeshire junior squash scene by combining the championships with our “Best of British” festival. It was an amazing weekend and definitely a memorable and inspiring one for the youngsters, so […]

Cambridgeshire Junior County Closed Sponsor

The Sports Academy is delighted to announce that “Instant Home”, a leading provider of quality rental furniture, have chosen to sponsor the upcoming Cambridgeshire Junior County Closed competition which takes place at Hunts County Squash Club on 23rd and 24th September 2023. Founded over 20 years ago by husband and wife team Hollie and Steve, […]

HCSC Graded Squash Tournament

A busy weekend at the club concluded on Sunday with the 2023 HCSC Graded Squash tournament. There was a great entry with 48 players playing across the three grades, competing in draws based on level and against those of a similar standard. After a full day of matches, concluding with some closely contested finals, the […]

Ireland tour a great success!

The Sports Academy, took a group of junior squash players on an international tour to Ireland in August. The eight player squad took on local juniors and adults from squash clubs across Ireland; including matches in Dublin, Galway, Thurles and Waterford.  It was a great opportunity for the youngsters to play and develop their squash, [...]

Cambridgeshire County Closed

Awesome weekend of Big-Bat-Battles and Doubles-Madness at HCSC to complete the 2022/23 season in Cambridgeshire! It was a hugely successful and enjoyable second edition of the project started by The Sports Academy and made possible in partnership with title sponsor Total Access Solutions. There was a great turnout again this year, with plenty of representation […]

20 Minute Championships

The 2023 HCSC 20-Minute Champions have been crowned and there were fantastic finals across the board!   Mark Cousins and Dave Parker got things started in the squash plate final. Tasked with the challenge of chasing down an +18 point deficit to start, Mark was on top form, managing to level and sneak ahead with a […]

Junior Friendlies

Brilliant to see so many youngsters taking part in the junior friendlies over at Ely Squash Club. It was great for the Sports Academy juniors to be so well represented! Thanks to Martyn for organising such a great afternoon of squash. The Cambridgeshire junior friendlies are a great way for those who haven’t played too […]

Well done HCSC!

HCSC defended their Cambridgeshire Light Blue County Cup title on Saturday with a win against Bedford Towers! In a repeat of last year’s final, HCSC took the win 3/2 with wins from Rob, Jason and a man of the match winning performance from Colin. There were also valiant efforts from Sofia and Jonny, who lost […]

An action packed Sunday!

An action packed Sunday morning of squash at HCSC with the Cambridgeshire junior development matches taking place this weekend! We trialled a new format with juniors divided into teams and playing 6 min 30 secs “all points count” matches against their opposite numbers in the other teams. There were 30 juniors split into 6 teams, […]

HCSC Junior Challenger

We had a fun day of squash on Sunday, hosting the England Squash sanctioned HCSC Junior Challenger tournament. There were lots of great matches and a good turnout of juniors from Cambridgeshire and neighbouring counties. Beatrice was in action in the U9/U11s, where she really got stuck in and put in some great performances against […]