Jersey Squash Association

So good to see Nick Taylor back on Island this last week. Some great messaging in Nick’s interview with the JEP about individuals having the mindset to give back to their chosen sport. These people are the ‘heroes’ of sport that support our communities, either through volunteering time or sponsoring events.

Nick also highlights the stark difference between the USA, where business enterprises have far greater appetite to invest in sports, compared to the UK/Jersey, where there just isn’t the same level of corporate investment into sports. This is particularly true for smaller community sports like squash and racketball. Thanking 🙏 all corporates that do currently support us, this is greatly appreciated.

Nick is someone driven to make a success out of any sports project, working from the grassroots up, reaching to all cross sections of the playing community. Jersey Squash was fortunate to have several years of Nick as our Development Director and what we like most now is that Nick still manages to find time to keep in contact and support the local squash and racketball scene and the Jersey players in competition! ☺️

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The Jersey Squash and Racketball Club became a hive of activity over the weekend, as more than 180 players came together for the ARC Jersey Racketball Festival, producing many thrills on the courts.

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Well done 👏 to all the year 4 students who took part in squash tasters this week as part of the Butterfield Liberation Games. How fun 🤩 to be able to try a range of different sports all in one day! Lots of great hand eye coordination on show and transferable skills between team and individual sports.

Thank you to Jersey Sport for organising the event, and their Community Sponsors Butterfield Jersey

Here’s to more events like these, that offer youngsters the opportunity to try out a range of sports from a young age. Jersey 🇯🇪 is very fortunate to have so many great sports offerings on Island. Thank you coaches and sports volunteers also for your part in the event.

Primary Schools Squash Festival 2026 - Congratulations to all the students from Plat Douet, St Luke’s, St Lawrence and Mont Nicolle who took part in this year’s squash event, held on 30 April at the Jersey Squash and Racketball Club in St Clements. Very well done to this year’s primary festival event winners St Lawrence.

Most of the students taking part had no prior experience of squash, but you wouldn’t have known it by the end of the morning! The children participated in various squash skills across the courts to gain points for their team, followed by some ‘competitive and fun’ opportunities to play students from across the different schools.

I hope the students enjoyed this event as much as the Coaching team!

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Inter Insular 2026 - An epic win 🏆 for Jersey 🇯🇪 26-11 in this year’s fixture against Guernsey 🇬🇬, kindly sponsored by FCM.

Jersey not only won the overall event, they won 6 out of the 8 categories played. Ladies Squash 2-0, Ladies Racketball 5-0, Men’s Racketball A 4-1 and Racketball B 3-2, Men’s Veteran’s Squash 5-0 and Men’s Over 55 Racketball 5-0.

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At the very top of Channel Island Men’s Squash, Jersey’s Charlie Griggs, No 1, beat the young and talented, Guernsey No 1, Leo Ware 3-1. Jersey’s Antony Harkin, playing at seed 2, also had a good win against Jack Turvey 3-1, reversing the result from last year’s Inter Insular in Guernsey against Jack.

At number 3, Guernsey’s Henry Birch won a fifth setter 3-2 victory (11-9) against Scott Gautier, in the tie that probably decided the team’s result. It was the finest of performances from both players and fantastic to watch.

Playing at number 4, Will Turpin lost to his more experienced opponent Toby Young, but has made good progress in his game since last year.
Tom Bullock from Jersey came very close to a debut match win playing at number 5 for Jersey A, coming from 2-0 down to level the match 2-2, but then losing the deciding 5th game against Leo Fossey. Overall, Guernsey, by the narrowest of margins, won the coveted Men’s A Squash 3-2.

Guernsey once again dominated in the Men’s B squash event with a 5-0 win, which actually is a warning ⚠️ sign that Guernsey’s pipeline of future players is looking very healthy. Junior Charlie Le Lay and Pat Dixon both took a game off their opponents, but it was (as ever) very tough for Jersey Men’s B Squash.

In the ladies events, Jersey won all the fixtures in both Squash and Racketball. Amelie Turpin, playing at 1 for Jersey Squash, had to dig deep at 6-3 down in the fifth to win against her experienced, Guernsey opponent, Gemma Coquelin. Junior, Tyler McAllister won comfortably for the Jersey ladies squash team. The Jersey Racketball ladies, put 5 wins on the board, with Elizabeth Casely, Jersey’s number 1, securing a good 3-1 win against Abby Darnell. Well done to Elizabeth Fenlon, Yvonne Mundy, Val Brown, Nicole Taylor Keaton!

In Racketball A, Richard Brocken seed 2, was first up on show court playing Omar Kandilli. Richard, under the watchful eye of Neal Pickersgill (playing for Neal’s trophy 🏆) got the team off to the perfect start winning 3-0. The number 1 contest saw Janick Radford of Guernsey, (switch from squash to racketball), coming up against Jersey’s very talented, ball striker Aaran Higgins. Aaran kept Janick in his sights for the first game, losing 13-11, but Janick’s exceptional fitness became telling as the match went on, with Aaran eventually losing 3-0. John Southern and Stuart Conroy also secured close Jersey victories.

For the spectators, it was all about the compelling battles and Ed Fletcher’s seed 5 match against Patrick Josey in Men’s Racketball A certainly had it all. Ed came back from match point down in the third to eventually win the match 3-2. Ed described this as one of the best matches he had ever played! Franck Matthews, Director of event sponsors FCM, and playing for Racketball B similarly played ‘one of his best games ever!’ It was just one of those days when the Jersey 🇯🇪 team were all on 🔥 .

Jersey’s other 3-2 star ⭐️ winners on the day were John Hibbs in the Men’s Veterans and Paul Frankland in O55 Racketball. FCM Managing Director, John Wood also secured a Jersey win 💪.

There is often talk about ‘squash families’ and this being a big part of the growth in the sport. Guernsey are doing just that, with squash mums Lisa Ware, Yolanda Young and daughter Sophie Young making their debuts for Guernsey in the Ladies Racketball. This is an excellent initiative from Guernsey 👏! It was a good day for the trio of Guernsey Birch 🌳 brothers securing 3 wins, comprising 27% of Guernsey’s points.

Thank you to event organisers from both Islands and to Frankie behind the bar, Domingo’s for catering and all the volunteers that helped with the BBQ and with the bar throughout the day. And to our local supporters, the home crowd were amazing. A shout out to Ernie Bird, drinking captain 🧑‍✈️, who forever supports Jersey in this event. All round, it was a fabulous team effort.

Thank you, sponsors FCM, Franck Matthews and John Wood, we really value your sponsorship of this long standing fixture, that’s so important to Channel Island Squash and Racketball.

To end with the stats Jersey 🇯🇪 won the Squash 9-8 and Jersey 🇯🇪 won the Racketball 17-3. Yay 🥳 !

Next up, on the weekend of 20/21 June the juniors will go head to head in a Jersey 🇯🇪 V Guernsey 🇬🇬 Inter Insular event and a Channel Island Open - Bronze event, taking place at the Jersey Squash and Racketball Club.

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INTER INSULAR 2026 - Saturday 25 April, Jersey 🇯🇪 V Guernsey 🇬🇬 team line ups were exchanged yesterday. Please come down to support, the playing schedule is attached and matches are being played throughout the day from 9.30am. Supporters we would love 💕 to fill the house 🏠 behind show court E!

Thank you again to our Jersey team and event sponsors FCM. FCM Managing Director, John Wood and FCM Client Services Director Franck Matthews have both been selected to play for Team Jersey 🇯🇪 💪. The team photo attached includes many of the 38 players taking part in this Saturday’s event.

The event is taking place at the Jersey Squash and Racketball Club, situated at St Clement’s Sports Hub, (formerly known as the Jersey Recreation Grounds).

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On Saturday 25 April, Jersey will play Guernsey in the Annual Squash and Racketball Inter Insular event. The matches are being held in Jersey at the Jersey Squash and Racketball Club in St Clements.

38 squash and racketball matches will determine the overall winner. Guernsey won last year 21-17, however this year Jersey will have the advantage of playing in front of a home 🏠 crowd.

Matches are due to start at the club at around 9:30 with the A team games from 1:15pm onwards. A full schedule will be posted out shortly, after we exchanges teams with Guernsey tomorrow.

The club bar will be open and food/drinks will available throughout the day. Please come and support the Jersey team and stay for the evening social.

A huge thank you to sponsors FCM and good luck to all involved!

The Jersey Squash and Racketball club is located at the St Clement’s Sports Hub in St Clement, large white building at the back of the site.

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An inspiring and immersive weekend of coach education delivered by England Squash Coaches, Paul Carter and Samara Stewart. They hosted an England Squash, Community Development Coach Course (Level 1), to 11 new coach participants in Jersey, from both squash and racketball and from across the Channel Islands. Paul and Samara, as ever, going the extra mile, also found time to host CPD training to the more experienced coaches and spend court time with our junior players.

Well done to everyone who took part, it’s the beginning of a journey to help grow the grassroots of both squash and racketball and coach to a wide demographic of players around the Island at our main club located at St Clement’s Sports Hub and for centres like Les Quennevais, St John’s Community Centre and Victoria College and to reach out to more school students and new players interested to take up the sport.

Thank you 🙏 to everyone involved with organising the weekend and also a special mention to Victoria College School for allowing us to run this course at their school 2 court facility. The JSRA is grateful to have received funding from Jersey Sport to assist with the costs of running this course.

Congratulations to Jersey players Cameron and Ollie, both playing in the Dorset County Under 13 boys winning team at the weekend. A memorable weekend for all. Thank you to the organisers England Squash for hosting the event in Sheffield and Dorset Squash & Racketball for supporting this opportunity for our local junior players. Full report will follow in the JEP.

A fantastic morning of squash tasters at St Lawrence school on Wednesday. So much enthusiasm to tryout squash. Well done 👏 to all of you. As squash coaches, it’s very rewarding to be involved in the grassroots and inspiring future generations of sportspeople! Thank you to all at St Lawrence School for hosting us.