News 2006
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Urban Youth
Program News (April 2006)
The latest
from the two urban youth programs:
The Best
of Washington at SC/LA March 4 (March 2006)
What promises to be one of the best Div 1 league
head to heads for a long time is set for Saturday
March 4 at Sports Club/LA. The Results Senators take
on the Bethesda Bulls with the following line ups:
Results Senators vs Bethesda Bulls
David Canner v Jude Odeh
Peter Sopher v Rod Barnes
Terry Hindermann v Jon Lam
Phil Sopher v Dean Packard
Action will start at 2pm with the #1 match between Bethesda's new pro Jude Odeh and Result's top ranked junior David Canner.
Web Usage on
the Increase (Mar 2006)
Increase in the use of the SquashWars web site has
steadily increased since its inception under Bill
Fenton and Fayonne Alfaro in 2000.
Download rates illustrating the growth may be found
in the table below and more detailed graphics are available
in here. Peak
activity at SquashWars has usually been associated
with the annual Lucky Nick tournament at SCLA when
the site periodically registers over 1500 page
downloads per day.
| Year | 2000 | 2003 | 2006 |
| Pages Downloaded (Avg/Day) | 80 | 300 | 525 |
| MBytes Downloaded (Avg/Day) | 3 | 12 | 30 |
Fox TV Coverage of Squash
at Bethesda S&H (Jan 2006)
Holly
Morris and the FOX5 morning news team did an
expose of squash at Bethesda Sport and
Health on
Wednesday 4th January. The
session produced over 10 minutes of
TV coverage,
all of which
went live to air between 7-9am that morning.
Connie Barnes
and several of the local
juniors who play at
Bethesda got some airtime doing a series of
simple
drills.
Holly quizzed Connie and
the group on various aspects of the
game, including the
fitness element, why they liked it and
the relationship with college.
FOX5 claims a viewing
audience of 1.5 million through that period. Some of the action
is available on
streaming video
here
(broadband recommended).
Rating/Ranking and
Membership Update (Jan 2006)
Results from NCSRA league and local
tournament play are used to calculate a numerical
rating of your squash ability, and it has proven to
be a fairly reliable indicator of your relative
skill level. The rating system is used to determine
which leagues you are eligible to play in. The
ratings from league and tournament matches played up
to the end of the year have been posted under the
membership
page. Results pro Brian O'Hora is currently
the No 1 ranked player in the NCSRA at 6.02, see the
ladder
to find your position. The data tables also display
the expiry date of your membership, so you can also
check to see if you are current.