S2SQ - SUSTAINING SUCCESS
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Learn | Compete | Excel
Scozzie Squash 2011-2019 / S2 Squash Est. 2019
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S2 is a welcoming community! We pride ourselves on individual attention and our coaches not only take an interest in players squash, but in their overall lives. We teach and embody the highest standards of sportsmanship, hard work and perseverance, and we are proud to have one of the finest coaching teams ever assembled in the United States.
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Hi, Everyone.
A very S2ylish weekend across the S2ozzie world with a great P2P at the club, several of our crew at the EA Bronze and a full weekend of training! You can read Lyall's ever popular rundown of the weekend on the
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After so many successful years, it's not often that we get to declare "firsts". Congratulations to little Amelia, who became our youngest winner ever of a US Squash Sanctioned Tournament, winning the GU11 Bronze at EA this past weekend! Only the start of much bigger things to come, but a pretty cool start! Stay tuned!
The weekends P2P was our first partnering with US Squash and saw some new faces and some of our competitive stalwarts. Sam and Shaam fought out a Premier Division final for the ages, and a record eight divisions ensured a great day of fun and competition.
Our next P2P is November 16 and you can enter here.
"Hallo-week" has always been one of the most exciting weeks on the S2ozzie calendar. This year our official Halloween Fest will be on Thursday the 31st of October! The coaches annual costumes always raise eyebrows, and perhaps other facial hair this year... (hint, hint). As always there will be prizes for best dressed, come in your favorite attire and let's make it a day to remember!
Finally, below you can find out some more information on our upcoming Pennsylvania Regional Championships, a reminder of the West Coast JCT coaching protocols and more. As always, remember that you can reply to this email with any questions, or catch up with the coaches when you're next in the club.
See you at training!
S2 Coaching Team
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5 Things to Know About PA Regionals
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- Optional Points. This event provides the unique opportunity to opt not to take points and have the exposure removed if you weren’t happy with your finishing position. This means anyone can play for the match experience without the stress of points. Players must email tournaments@ussquash.com within one week of the completion of the Regional Championships.
- Eligibility. Players must have residency in the region of PA to be eligible - defined by the location you live for the majority of the year. South Jersey players are also eligible, anyone from Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean and Salem counties may compete in the PA Regionals.
- Registration Deadline - Wednesday November 6th at 12:00pm.
- Points. The offering is split in between Gold and Silver Points. 1500 points are up for offer for 1st place, as well as being crowned King/Queen of Pennsylvania! In divisions with more than 25 players, the top 5 players will all earn over 1000 points.
- Pennsylvania already has 65 entrants (with 2.5 more weeks still open for registration!), more than double any other Regional Championships! Sign up today to join the biggest and best tournament of the year at the greatest tournament venue/experience - S2 Squash!
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S2ozzie getting ready for Best-Coast JCT!
S2ozzie Squash's Coaching Crew will be venturing West for the West Coast JCT -
kicking off November 9!
If you'd like a S2ozzie Coach outside your door it is important that you make that clear to us now, so we can make appropriate plans!
Request coaching, or ask any questions by email
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And we'll see you on the other side!
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S2 to host the Pennsylvania Regional Championships
A reminder that S2 Squash is the host for this years Pennsylvania Regional Championships! For those of you who are unfamiliar with the event, it has a proud tradition at the club and offers both strong matches, good points for those on the way up and and the unique option to not take points for those at the top of the tree and looking for match play and the title!
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Lyall's weekend reportage
A historic weekend for the S2 record books, as the first ever P2P was hosted at home base after we announced our event affiliation with US Squash earlier in the week. Coincidentally, the 1 Day EA Bronze kicked off at exactly the same time and had 9 S2ozzies competing down the road and it made for an epic day of success stories, learning experiences and several wonderful performances.
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5 Things to Know About P2P Series 2019-20
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- Name and History. P2P stands for ‘Prepare to Perform’ and our Event Series runs a monthly rated based tournament from September-May. The format uniquely places players into appropriate divisions with 8 players of a similar rating (within 0.5) and everyone initially has the opportunity to qualify up into a higher division. Our 5 Previous Series winners include; Sam Fenwick (Yale), Adrian Leanza (Brown), Lyall Paterson (Edinburgh Napier), Jamie Ruggiero (Williams), Sean Hughes (Harvard) .
- Players - We accept every level of player from a 2.0 rating through to a 6.5 and have between 50-90 players at each event. Generally over 50% of our participants are from PA, but we accept entrants nationwide. As a guideline; Premier Division - Ratings 5.5 - 6.0 Division 1 - Rating 5.0 - 5.5 Division 2 - Rating 4.6 - 5.0 Division 3 - Rating 4.2 - 4.6 Division 4 - Rating 3.8 - 4.2 Division 5 - Rating 3.4 - 3.8 Division 6 - Rating 3.0 - 3.4 Division 7 - Rating 2.6 - 3.0 Division 8 - Rating 2.2 - 2.6 Division 9 and 10 - Rating <2.23.
- Registration Deadline - Regular deadline is Monday 12:00pm ($50 members, $75 non members) prior to tournament start, late registration is open until Friday 12:00pm ($50 members, $90 non members). Registration covers 4 matches, breakfast and lunch and all prizes, 1-3 in every division.
- Format - Players will play 4 matches - 3 will be best of 3, final match will be best of 5. The first match will be a qualifying match, R1 is quarter finals, R2 semi finals and R3 is final play offs for positions 1-8. Players must referee/mark following match and then they will watch or assist is our ‘Ambassador Connection’ initiative. Registration and Warm Up Period from 9:00-9:15am, Matches begin at 9:15am and tournament will fully conclude before 2:30pm in the 1 day events.
- Year 6 of P2P’s. Every year the tournament series has grown from 40 members in 2014, to over 130 in 2019. We want to make 2019/20 our biggest and best yet, with 14 ASB courts and welcome a full range of players from National Champions - JCT - Gold - Silver - Bronze - Beginner Level for a once in a lifetime tournament opportunity with every level of player competing under the same ceiling at the same time! Don’t miss out!
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