Herts County Junior Meeting
7/1/08
Present: Ray, Ron, Julian Craxton, Steve lloyd, John Beattie, Chris
Thomas
Apologies Dave Kerr, Dave Richards.
Finances: £6514.53p.
Cheque received from Arlon Printers for £666.69. This is still to be
banked.
Berko still £42.89 for lost trophy. Ray Waller will chase.
Outgoings Ron Worrell - £150,
Schools programme - £132.
Intercounty: Stage 2 now been released
U13 away at Berkshire Steve and Julian have team arranged. 3/2/08
U15 We are hosting at Bishop Stortford. Andrew Mulvey and Bob Fowler
will be looking after the team on the day. 27/1/08
U17 Away Essex hosting awaiting contact from this County 3/2/08
U19 Away Surrey Hosting. 27/1/08
Girls U13 Away against Oxfordshire (host) and Sussex.- 3/2/08
Girls U15 Hosting at Canons Surrey, Bucks and Essex. 27/2
Good Luck to all teams.
Girls Squash Training Morning on the 23/12/07 had 31 attendees a great
turn out so close to Christmas. It was held at Cannons.
Next Girls morning scheduled 9th March at Canons.
There is a Intercounty friendly provisionally booked for 10th Feb. This is
the East Anglian Tournament and will be held at Bishop Stortford if it
goes ahead. At the moment only a 50/50 chance as some Counties are not
showing great interest.
Inter Club All going OK
Berko have withdrawn an U13 team. Ron is still awaiting official
confirmation from them. Seems Berko are struggling with some
organisational issues at the moment.
Safety Glasses 12 pairs purchased. Some were handed to team managers.
These need to be available in case juniors forget or lose their glasses.
Also need to have these available at the Herts Closed.
Grand Prix U17/ U19 Canons is booked for this event on Sunday 24th
March from 9.30 12.30.
Need to send invites to those ranked 6 and below. Dave Richards has e-mail
details of the boys and will be asked to invite them to the Grand Prix.
Ray waler has sent an email asking Dave to do this and Julian will follow
up with a call nearer the date. On the day Julian will also be assisting
to run the event.
After this GP the next one is scheduled for the 20th April need to get a
club to volunteer to hold this event.
Awards For All
Trotts Hill completed on Dec 13th. Ron to find out how many have continued
on with the club.
Camps Hill start on 18th Feb. 5 dates only. Want to bring 28 Kids. Need
2 coaches to handle such a large number. Ron arranging.
Batchwood special needs school starting weds 16th. 6 sessions with Steve
Lloyd.
Broxbourne seems they have 30 children at the Junior training. Our
funding to get things going seems to be helping.
Grant request for Video Equipment A request was received from Gosling
asking the committee to contribute towards electrical equipment for
videoing and analysing the junior squash players. This amounted in total
to around £1800.
The committee did not feel this was within our Awards for All programme
and we recommend Gosling apply for their own Awards for All if they wish
to buy equipment of this nature. It was pointed out that several local
coaches have this equipment available and maybe it would be better to hire
out equipment from them.
The request was therefore rejected.
A.O.B.
Herts Juniors were well represented at the British Junior Open with Adrian
Waller getting the furthest by reaching the semi Finals. Jemma Ockwell
reached the furthest within the Girls event. Others who attended were Olly
Dixon, Philip Waller, Nick Mulvey, Brogan Lane. My apologies if I have
forgotten any.
19th Jan friendly arranged for U13 at Harpenden with Middlesex.
Sat 26th Jan friendly arranged for U9 and U11 at Finchley Manor v
Middlesex.
The Ron Palmer Trophy was presented to the Gosling team. It was nice that
the first winners were Rons club and there name will appear first on the
trophy.
NEXT MEETING 4TH Frebruary 2008