Introduction Champions Committee

NORFOLK SRA

Welcome to the official web-site for the Norfolk Squash Rackets Association. Whether you are a regular squash-player, a complete novice or have just stumbled upon this site by accident we hope you will find something of interest.

This year’s Annual General Meeting was held at Lime Tree Road, Norwich, which is the home of both the East Anglia club and Norfolk Squash, on Thursday July 30^th, when those officials who are now running Norfolk Squash on your behalf were elected.

Brian Cooper was re-elected as Chairman, Steve Mooney as Secretary and Kevin Blake once again agreed to undertake the thankless but vitally important role of League Secretary. If you want to know anything at all about Norfolk Squash or about any Norfolk club please contact either Brian, Steve or Kevin who will be pleased to help you.

Last season Division One of the Norfolk Leagues was the most closely contested for a number of years and at the end of the day the championship went to East Anglia II for the first time. The Lime Tree Road based team won seventeen of their eighteen matches and finished the season on 303 points, twenty one ahead of runners-up Potters with the reigning champions East Anglia I a further four points behind in third place. Congratulations also to Watton who won all sixteen of their matches to take the Division Two title with Barnham Broom II finishing as runners-up while Barnham Broom III finished three points ahead of Diss to take the Division Three title.

The Norfolk Closed championships were held at Lime Tree Road and congratulations go to Jamie Goodrich of Potters who retained his title and to Suzanne Scarlett of East Anglia who won the ladies title for the first time. It doesn’t seem possible that John Cordeaux is now a veteran but he is and he has now added two Norfolk Veterans titles to his seven county closed titles while Brian Hawkes won the vintage title after a thrilling final.

All four of the county men’s teams had a successful Stage One in this season’s Inter County Championships and the Over 35 team went on to gain promotion in Stage Two while the veterans’ team, with Richard Millman and John Cordeaux to the fore, finished in third place in the championship itself which was an excellent achievement

The Norfolk Junior Championships took place earlier in the season and congratulations to Bradley Garrett and Hannah Morris who both retained their titles as boys and girls Under 19 champions. It was Hannah’s eighth county title since she first became Under 13 champion five years ago. Both of these youngsters have come through the highly successful Norfolk Junior Squash programme and full details of all junior activities can be found on their excellent web-site by following the link on this page.

Finally Tim Allenden took over the running the Norfolk Summer Leagues and congratulations go to East Anglia who won the title for the third time and to Diss and East Anglia II who won Divisions Two and Three respectively.

If you will be playing during 2009-10 have an enjoyable season, if not enjoy your rest and do visit the web-site on a regular basis!

Martin Braybrook

President – Norfolk SRA

August 2009