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Gleneagle Squash season launched
Gleneagle Squash Club have announced their 2023/2024 squash competition and training programme, following extensive renovations and improvements during the summer months.
Club competitions are set to take place each month during the squash season, from November until April, and all players are welcome to join.
The first monthly competition of the season is kindly sponsored again by O'Keeffe's Oils Rathmore.
The club has been making great progress with six members now trained as coaches to World Squash Federation Level 1 accreditation; success in national competitions; representation on Irish teams; ladies and junior training and improved facilities which now bring the courts up to a national standard. Club chairman and longtime player Mike Crowley gives credit to the Aquila Club staff and the Gleneagle Hotel for their ongoing support and also extends his thanks to the Department of Community and Rural Development and Kerry County Council for the Community Enhancement Fund award towards the cost of upgrading the courts.
There has been a strong turnout to Ladies’ training each Tuesday evening and Juniors’ Training each Wednesday evening from 6.15-7.00pm, with the first cohort of ladies already actively playing in club leagues and making way for the next round of beginners and returning players. Their ‘drop in and play’ mornings each Saturday from 10am - 1pm are a chance for new, returning and regular players to train and play without commitment each week.
With the welcome news this week that squash is to be an Olympic sport for the first time at LA 2028, the club is as proud as ever of its successes - Donnagh Crowley and Paul O’Brien are proudly representing the club on the Irish international master’s team and in 2023, the club won Division 2 of the Munster Leagues. The club also held the Killarney Open in September, sponsored by Tricel, Torc Engineering and Brendan Counihan Plant Hire. With recent improvements and wins, the club can be more confident of having a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of its community and perhaps, developing a potential Olympian from the Gleneagle Squash Club!
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