Junior County Championship Jul 2021

A massive thank you to Shrewsbury Squash Club for hosting the junior county championships last weekend. It was fantastic to see some exciting, competitive squash and the Shropshire squash community getting back together after such a long time. This is the first time the junior county championships has been held at this venue and we are all grateful to the volunteers, including Graham Jackson and Cyril Nolan, who helped to get this on, it’s so important for the youngsters to have events like this after the enforced break.  

Great work from Gary Nolan laying on the refreshments and tunes to get a lovely relaxed vibe going and, of course, the hard work of event organiser Ian Tanner in getting all the juniors – and their parents – to the right court to play.This event could not have been held without the generous support of our sponsors Birford Cable and Wireless. Thank you.  

There were some brilliant results including Cordelia Jones from SSRC winning the under 11 girls – the deciding match against Maya Schur went down to the wire, both players were competing in their first ever county event but Cordelia just managed to take the final few points on the show court.  

Doubling-up in the BU11 and mixed under 9 categories was George McGurk, winning both events playing high energy squash coupled with some amazing serving. George plays with such enthusiasm and makes being on court the most fun thing you could imagine while at the same time being incredibly respectful to his opponents.  Jaydan Ingram, from Shropshire Squash Club, won the Under17 boys. He achieved this whilst being eligible for the Under15 event and, even more impressively, beat the county Under19 champion in the round-robin stage, where age groups were combined!  

List of Winners:

GU19 Sophie Wright

GU17 Izzy Wase

GU15 Nia Lincoln

GU11 Cordelia Jones

Mixed U9 George McGurk

BU11 George McGurk

BU13 Max Ruffles

BU15 Billy Schur

BU17 Jaydan Ingram

BU19 Finley Aimer  

Doubling-up in the BU11 and mixed under 9 categories was George McGurk, winning both events playing high energy squash coupled with some amazing serving. George plays with such enthusiasm and makes being on court the most fun thing you could imagine while at the same time being incredibly respectful to his opponents.A brilliant result for Cordelia Jones from SSRC winning the under 11 girls – the deciding match against Maya Schur went down to the wire, both players were competing in their first ever county event but Cordelia just managed to take the final few points on the show court.  

An outstanding performance by Jayden Ingram who won the BU17 county closed despite being eligible for the under 15s. Even more impressive; he beat the BU19 champion in the round robin group stage where age groups were combined!  

A dominant performance from seasoned event player Nia Lincoln saw her take the Under15 girls trophy against newcomer Vesi Vasileva in the final. Nia showed her class throughout the tournament with some superb, accurate hitting.  

Boys under 19 county champion Finley Aimer receiving his trophy.

BU19, BU17, GU19, GU17 presentations

Reports and pictures from:Dan Aimer (Shropshire County Junior Representative)Ben Shur (Shropshire County Coach)