Hosted by the Cedar Hill Squash Club
tournament Director: Benjamin Uliana
Tournament Draws R2SPORTS 2019 - Draws
Registration Open
We are using club locker for the PNW this year
Welcome to the 51st Jesters PNW. We are please to be hosting this event and proud to have UVIC - CARSA, joining in to offer courts for the Jesters PNW. We now have 185 entries playing at the three venues on 11 squash courts for the weekend
Entry Deadline: January 31st, 2020 at 12:00 Pacific Standard time
Entry Fee: $80.00
Tournament Souvenir: We will be offering a tournament Hoodies for all Participants, please check your sizing there will be no exchanging of sizes
Events: Boys U11 - U19 (Open) Girls U11 - U19 (Open)
Hotel: Hotel Grand Pacific Book before January 21st, 2020, $129.00 per night
Call 1-800-663-7550, Ask for "Jester PNW JR Squash Championship Tournament"
Friday February 14th: Play begins at 9:00am, NO EXCEPTIONS
PRACTICE COURTS: Available Thursday, February 13th, 2020: Contact Benjamin Uliana to reserve a court. 30 min court booking are available Practice Court Schedule
SUNDAY FINALS: Finals for Main draws will be scheduled between 11:40pm through 1:00pm on Sunday February 16th, 2020. Please book return flights accordingly.
Presentations will be between 2:00pm and 2:30pm
Monday February, February 11th, 2019 I receive an email from my kids school, cancelled due to snow! For three days I watched the the snow accumulate and the weather get progressively worse for driving, but better for tobogganing for the kids! Finally the temperature lifted and the rain came and people started arriving for the 50th year of the Jesters PNW! In 1969 a young Phil Green, played in the first event and help run that same tournament. There were 40 entries, although who knew that it would grow to be the event we had this weekend.
At the peak we had 215 players on Monday and that number ended up at 201 players by our start Friday Morning at 9:00am. Some people opted out due to weather conditions others had flights cancelled on the Thursday night due to YYJ not being open. There was a flurry of activity on Friday as we rescheduled matches dues to Athletes coming in on morning flights. In the end we got through Friday and the tournament continued.
On sunday, we were treated to an All BC Final in the Boys Under 19. Number 1 seed Emilio Carrillo and Number 2 seed Matt Bicknell duked it out in a 5 game final trading points like two boxer in the 12th round of a WCB title bout. It was a fitting end to the two and a half days of squash. Amazingly, 45 min earlier, Lucia Bicknell won the girls Under 19 draw, in another 5 set match over the the Number 2 seed Erica McGillicuddy (Ontario). I would be remiss of me not to mentioning that Roman Bicknell, younger brother of both Lucia and Matt, won the boys under 13 draw.
It felt like the 50th Jesters PNW would not happen this year with the cold weather threatening, but it did start and I have to say that the level play and sportsmanship was exemplary this year. This year we expanded our sportsmanship award to included a second award one for the Boys and one for the Girls. Going forward we will have the George Morfitt Sportsmanship award for Boys and the Dave Thom Sportsmanship award for the girls. Our two recipients of the award were:
George Morfitt: Emilio Carrillo
Dave Thom: Lucia Bicknell
As I mentioned the sportsmanship was beyond expectation this year it should be mentioned that for both the boys and girls award each was won by 1 vote.
As I close this event, I reflect on what makes an event successful and it comes down to a good team. Not one person is able to pull off an event of this size: 3 venues, food service, court control, but it is the 50+ volunteers from the community that came out on family day weekend to make sure all the players had what they needed to play the squash they did.
I look forward to running this event next year. Registration will open in November of 2019. Visit this site to keep informed of the 2020 51st Jesters PNW!
Thank you
Benjamin Uliana
Tournament Director
| Category | Name | City |
|---|---|---|
| BU 19 | Matt Bicknell | British Columbia |
| GU 19 | Lucia Bicknell | British Columbia |
| BU 17 | Amin Khan | Ontario |
| GU 17 | Juliana Angel | British Columbia |
| BU 15 | Michael Knapp | Alberta |
| GU 15 | Ocean Ma | British Columbia |
| BU 13 | Roman Bicknell | British Columbia |
| GU 13 | Sarah Aki | British Columbia |
| BU 11 | Kamran Gwadry | British Columbia |
| GU 11 | Veera Dhaliwal | British Columbia |
| BU 17/19B | Will Johnson | British Columbia |
| BU 15 Silver | Tavin Williams | British Columbia |
| BU 11/13 Silver | Carter Roberston | North West Territories |
| George Morfit Sportsmanship Award | Emilio Carrillo | |
| Dave Thom Sportsmanship Award | Lucia Bicknell |
| 2018 Winners | Name | Province |
|---|---|---|
| BU 19 | Ryan Picken | British Columbia |
| GU 19 | Andrea Toth | British Columbia |
| BU 17 | Ben Boulanger | Alberta |
| GU 17 | Gigi Yeung | Macau - British Columbia |
| BU 15 | Aaron Lakhani | British Columbia |
| GU 15 | Maddison Laine | Alberta |
| BU 13 | Maaz Shah | Saskatchewan |
| GU 13 | Shirin Batra | Ontario |
| BU 11 | Weihan Wang | British Columbia |
| BU 17/19B | Kian Lalji | British Columbia |
| GU 17/19B | Rachel Yuen | British Columbia |
| BU 15B | Ronan Brookes | British Columbia |
| GU 15B | Katie Hooton | British Columbia |
| Boys U13B | Daniel Bennett | British Columbia |
| Boys U11B | Bode Morrison | Alberta |
| George Morfit Sportsmanship Award | Andrea Toth |
Here are the Hoodie choices for you this year.
