Sutton LTC Squash Academy

23/12/2020

Congratulations Grace on your Squash Scholarship

Grace Lavin has officially signed for UPENN, University of Pennsylvania on a Squash Scholarship. UPENN is an Ivy League College in the Top 8 colleges in the USA. Grace is now at the start of a great journey and we hope to keep in touch to watch her progress.

Grace started her Squash Career with Coach Eoin Ryan as a 10 year old junior and continued her dedication and love of Squash in Philadelphia having moved to America with her Family.

We wish Grace the best of luck with this new chapter in her life and congratulate her family, mum Anne, dad Tom and Sister Ellen also.

23/12/2020

A Coach is not just for Christmas....

Irish Squash are holding a free Christmas raffle for junior players
There are 10 prizes, each prize is a voucher for a 2-hour coaching session with the coach of their choice from the list below.
The vouchers are valid for all of 2021.

Clubs and coaches please fill in the attached spreadsheet with entries for the raffle and send to [email protected] by 5pm on Monday 4th January 2021. Winners will be announced on Wednesday 6th January via the Irish Squash website.

Players can only enter once. Players, please contact Eoin at [email protected] to get your name on the list.

Upon completion of coaching session, winners can take a socially distanced selfie with coach for publication on Irish Squash website

List of participating Coaches

Gerry Connaughton/Michael Conroy/Jenny Dillon/John Dineen/Kieran Doherty/Frank Donnelly/Christopher Engel/Gerry Galvin/Andrew Gillespie/ Lee Healy/Kevin Knox/David Noone/Kevin Quinlan/Eoin Ryan

18/06/2020

Dunlop Squash Academy Juniors in preparation for Squash Court opening.

26/03/2020

SQUASH - PSA

Miguel Angel Rodriguez stars in this Workout

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24/03/2020

SEND US YOUR EFFORTS

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17/03/2020

INTRO TO SQUASH SOLO PRACTICE
Obvious precautions must be taken even though you are on court by yourself;
[1] Use hand sanitizer before entering court and on exit
[2] Don't wipe hands on walls ( glass or otherwise )
[3] Maintain social distancing in viewing areas behind courts.
Benefits of solo practice;
Even in the best of times when we can get practice partners and match opponents most professionals will do solo practice everyday. You can control what you do, monitor accuracy and correct technique. As you hit every ball yourself, a 30 min solo is the equivalent of an hour with a partner.
Principles of the solo practice sessions; you have a target that you are aiming for ( usually on the floor ) which you can adapt the size depending on your skill level, a number of times you aim to hit the target and a time limit to do so.
You move to the next drill when you achieve your goal or when the time runs out. This means you always complete the session and don't get stuck on any drill for too long.
Squash Solo session 40 mins
Take notes for yourself / Contact me with questions.
Session 1 - Basic Hitting
Warm up 3 mins - Gentle jogging with slow lunge each end. Include side stepping , high knees , kick backs progressing to 80% sprints.
Warm Ball - straight driving to bounce back of service box x20 over service line x20 under service line / each side ( back hand / fore hand ) progressing to bounceing behind service box and hitting back wall and hit again x20. ( make target progressingly smaller from width of service box into 4 boards )
Achieve required number or max 10 mins each side.
Progress to ; 5 straight drives and a high semi lob cross court and then same on back hand side. Continue for 10 mins or 20 completed change overs without mistake. !
( Quick stretch ) 2 mins goasting - 20 corners steady pace , quality footwork not speed.
Move up to 2 steps in front of service box and volley to yourself hitting service line on front wall. 25 shots in succession or 5 mins Both fore hand and back hand.
Repeat Goasting 2 mins with 1 min rest by 3 sets.
Finish + stretch 15 mins.
Record Targets / Times and Comments.

08/03/2020

IRISH SQUASH AWARDS FOR SUTTON SQUASH ACADEMY

Eoin Ryan was awarded "Coach of the Year" last night at the Irish Squash Awards.

Dunlop Academy Junior Sam Buckley was awarded "Player of the Year" for his achievements at both Junior and Senior Level this season.

Well Deserved guys

Sutton Squash also took Club of the Year and Masters player Orla O'Doherty took Masters player of the year.

28/02/2020

DAY 2 IN GERMANY

Mixed results for Dunlop Academy Juniors after a long day in Hamburg with Back to Back matches since 9.00 a.m.

Sam Buckley has progressed nicely to reach the Top 8 in Boys U/19. Sam plays Jack Mitterer from England tomorrow.

Dylan Moran has also reached the Top 8 in Boys U/17 after a great win against Top seed - Nederland's Knut Hogervorst. Dylan plays No:2 seed Tate Harms from Switzerland next.

Zoe Yeomans won her first pool match in girls U/13 and Christian Dromgoole and Max O'Donovan took their 17/32 matches moving them in the right direction.

Dean Dromgoole won his second match today beatin Sweden's Hamed Zaytoun 3/0. Dean pictured here with assistant Coach Oisin Dunne

As there is no U/11 Evernt in this tournament some of or juniors are playing up an age group. This can be challenging but it will bring their game on. It is an amazing opportunity to play new opponents in a different country.

27/02/2020

GOOD LUCK IN GERMANY

15 Sutton Academy Juniors will head to Hamburg this Thursday to take part in the German Junior Open Super Series over the weekend. Fantastic to see such good numbers travelling and new faces.

Good Luck to Sam Buckley, Zoe Yeomans, Joshua Kelly, Anna Meaney, Isabel Fallon, Christian Dromgoole, Dean Dromgoole, Adam Eason, Tristan Snodgrass, Conal Jackson, Rebecca Jackson, Omar Wahed, Ismail Wahed, Max O’Donovan and Dylan Moran

There are 260 entries in the Event and the standard will be very high. You can follow the draw here and we will keep you up to date.

Matches stat tonight with Max, Conal, Christian and Adam taking to the stage at 18.20 p.m. Eoin and assistant coach Oisin are ready to a week of great squash.

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24/02/2020

AMAZING NATIONALS SUCCESS

DUNLOP Squash Academy Juniors took 6 of 10 Titles up for grabs at the Irish Squash Junior Nationals in Galway this weekend.

Girls U/11 Winner: Rebecca Jackson
Boys U/13 Winner: Conal Jackson
Girls U/15 Winner: Rebecca Kavanagh
Boys U/15 Winner: Adam Eason
Boys U/17 Winner: Dylan Moran
Boys U/19 Winner: Sam Buckley

Some fantastic results

Dylan Moran cliched his title having dropped the first two games to Jack O'Flynn only to return with a vengeance taking the next 3. 6/11, 8/11, 11/8, 11/8, 11/6

Conal Jackson beat fellow Sutton Player Aaron Cullen in five with spectacular scoring from both. Conal went 13/11 up in the opener but stumbled in the next two with Aaron going 2/1 with 11/7, 11/7. Conal made an astonishing comeback 17/15 to bring the match 2/2. The last game was decisively Conal's taking the match 3/2.

Sam Buckley swept the Boys U/19 without dropping a game throughout the weekend.

One of our latest Academy players Advik Ajay came second in the Boys U/11 B section. Advik won his first 3 matches and brought the No:1 seed to the brink losing marginally 14/12 in the fifth.

So many outstanding results and we hope to see Sutton well represented on the Irish Squash Teams.

So proud

19/01/2020

ALEX WINS IN SPECTACULAR STYLE

Alex Smith won the Boys U/17 Czech Junior Open Super Series 11/9 in the fifth. The players exchanged games bringing the match to the fifth game and stayed together all the way through this last game. Alex kept his nerve and took the match to everyones relief and joy.

Alex Smith v Rowan Damming
8-11 11-1 6-11 11-4 11-9

Congratulations Alex

19/01/2020

ZOE WINS THE CZECH

Zoe Yeomans took the Girls U/11 Title at the Czech Junior Open in Prague today. Incredible achievement for this young player at her second Super Series Event. Well Done Zoe.
Zoe Yeomans v Ukraine's Viktoriia Donik
11-4 12-10 8-11 11-7

3rd PLACE FOR CHRISTIAN

Second match of the day and another great win. Christian Dromgoole came in 3rd place in the Boys U/11 Event. Christian beat Adam Burget 3/1 - 11-7 11-6 7-11 11-2. Superb News. Well Done Christian.