At the end of March Dean held a party following on from the squash championship finals to celebrate the winners and round off the squash season; and to welcome in the tennis season! Below is a selection of photos from the prize giving and following party.
Summer racketball league
We are looking for new players to join Dean’s racketball team that play in the friendly summer league against various clubs in and around Edinburgh.
The league runs between April and August with matches roughly every fortnight! Racketball is very similar to squash and just as fun! No experience is necessary and all abilities catered for! We also have spare rackets you can use.
Dean AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Club will be held in the Clubhouse on Thursday 5th March 2015 at 6.45 pm. There will be wine, soft drinks and nibbles available.
Agenda:
- Apologies
- Approval of previous AGM minutes
- President’s report
- Vice President & Ladies Team report
- Membership secretary’s report
- Treasurer’s report
- Squash & Racquetball Convenor report
- Tennis Convenor & Men’s Tennis report
- Grounds and Maintenance report
- Junior Squash Convenor report
- Social Events report & plans for 2015
- Approval of new subscription rates
- Election of office bearers and members of the Committee
- Subscriptions for 2015-2016
- Any other business
Table Tennis Mini League
We will shortly be launching a table tennis mini league just like the tennis & squash leagues! Sign up by emailing Sarah or signing up on the sheet on the message board in the clubhouse. This is open to all playing ability and there are some spare bats and balls if you do not own your own.
You can find the rules here: http://www.pongworld.com/more/rules.php
130th Christmas Party Photos Now Available
Thanks everyone who came along last week to our 130th Christmas party. I hope everyone enjoyed the buffet, drinks, party games and disco as much as I did! To see the best of the pictures, please head over to the 130th page.
Yes! Tanzania
PLEASE GIVE A DONATION TO HELP YOUNG PEOPLE IN TANZANIA ACCESS SPORT AND HAVE YOUR DONATION DOUBLED THANKS TO THE BIG GIVE INITIATIVE
If you are anything like me you take access to great sporting facilities such as those offered at our club for granted. As you can imagine, young people in Tanzania, one of the poorest countries in the world, are not so fortunate. To help change this please support YES! Tanzania- we are an Edinburgh based charity that works in Northern Tanzania with young people who want to enjoy sport. Any donations that are given in November will go into a pool that will be doubled thanks to the Big Give Christmas Initiative. Please follow the link to make a donation….www.yestanzania.org.uk
YES! Tanzania No…. SC041604
Thank you,
Mark Cuthbert
YES! Tanzania Chairman
130th Anniversary Christmas Party
Please head over to our 130th Christmas Party page to book tickets for our party on the 22nd November.
Dean Racketball Championships
Many thanks for those who took part this 2014 DEAN RACKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP. With expand of 4 months most of us have play more games than last year!! total of 79 to 47 points. With this seem we are improving our games as well for Team Matches too. I will try to have next year start in April to August for 5 month, this help us play earlier to prepare Team Matches etc.
K. Parker 4 points
D. Thompson 23 points
R. Anderson 23 points
D. Mill 6 points
R. Todd 6 points
C. Hopkins 6 points
M, Clarkson 10 points
P. Jones 1 points
S. Aiken 1 points
As you can see Ross + David got 23 points!! So this will be rematch to see who the winner.
FRIDAY 5th SEPT REMATCH REPORT!!
First of all, I or we all should raise our hat to Ross for making big effort to play all his games, when he only home for weekend, and doing a good job with Commonwealth Games in mid-week for over a year ( may finish end of this month, so courts will be busy after that!! ). we both lost a game, we both a Champion!! So who the first player to win Dean CHAMPION twice!?
We were neck to neck on first game then I shoot off to win 15-9, same again on 2nd game a close call, then again I won 15-12 (I think), but 3rd game I play better with 3 cracker lucky shot game and Ross moan!!, but he always called me ‘Lucky’ in most games anyway!! or was he a bit tried with all the travels!! it was 14-4, then what I thought not nice but it a stoke, as he didn’t move out of way!! but he heard the ball burst!! it true!! I asked Ross are you sure to play on as seem a long shot for him!!?? I bring a new ball with 2 dot showing!! with warm up, then seem he like this ball better and picking up load of point( or was the ball so dark black he hitting it well!! ) then he hit the tin!! 15-8. Hooray the winner is David Thompson!
Thanks Ross, also again others as well. not sure we carry on with this using Ladder, or we again switch to work on our Squash Training/games with rest of other Squash players for teams etc!!
Yours in sports
D.Thompson
Sunday Funday Success!
Thanks all who took part in the Funday Sunday tennis tournament, squash friendlies and racquetball (more to follow about that in a separate post)! We had great weather and a wonderful BBQ; many thanks to Carl, Amanda, Bram, Nynke and others for supplying food and BBQ!
The winners of the tennis tournament were: Philippa McPherson & Carl Tweedie!
Some more photos of the event:
Another Successful Tennis Championship Finals!
Congratulations to all the winners and many thanks to all those that took part and attended the day!