West Of Scotland Squash AGM
Newlands Tennis & Squash Club
Monday 12th May 2014
Committee Present
Martin Woods
Andrew Duff
Alan Pearson
Billy Stevely
George Allan
Amanda Nicol
Kevin Lawlor
Also Present
Alan Marshall (Strathgryffe)
Michael Grant (Strathgryffe)
Appologies
Stewart Hamilton
John Crawford
Stuart George
Raymond Brown
Tarryn Robertson
1) The meeting was opened by Martin Woods,with the previous years minutes proposed by Michael Grant and seconded by George Allan
2) The accounts were presented by AP.He reported that only the 2 David Lloyd clubs were still outstanding this years fees.Slight drop in tournaments as Big Shots were now no longer done through WOS Squash.Slight loss on end of year Dinner.More money spent on Junior coaching and on qualifying refs.Also,money had been spent on a change in software
3) no auditor appointed,due to low turnover,all committee members were happy to fulfil their 2 year roll with re-elections for
Amanda Nicoll proposed by GA and seconded by KL
Stewart Hamilton proposed by MG and seconded by AP
Alan Pearson proposed by AD and seconded by BS
A tournament team to be organised
4) no Honoraria
5) team fees to be the same,proposed by AP and seconded by MW
6) Constitutional Matters as proposed by MW.The association to be called West Squash and Racketball seconded by BS.A minimum of 2 committee members outwith the Office Beares,seconded by MG
7) Convenors Report overall,very happy with the Leagues and the new resultzone had been very successful,with the exception of a couple of complaints about the rankings.SH proposed results to be in within 2 days as of next season.More juniors were reported to be playing in the Leagues with another successful Junior Inter-regional event with West winning 4 out of the 5 age groups.A proposal to enter a team into the English Inter-County championship next season.Congratulations to Newlands in winning the Naional League in both Gents and Ladies and Giffnock in winning the league for the very first time in their history.We ran the knock out cup in the summer in the lead up to the new season,lower entry than usual but a fun finals nite held at SSRC.West Junior A was run @ Newlands with 63 players entry.Fergus Richards beat Rory Stewart in the Div 1 final.There was a good entrant of the up and coming west Juniors.West B was held @ SSRC with a full entry of 64 over the 2 days.Stuart George (Gif) was runner-up in the event losing to Jamie Henderson (SSRC).Giffnock had just under 25% of players in the draw.West Junior Closed washeld @ Newlands.28 players entered with Harry Anderson beating Patrick O’Sullivan in a greatly contested final.Some behaviour issues from players to be addressed for future seasons.
