South Island Squash - NZ

Squad Training:

Great to have Coach Brown from Christchurch & Coach Arnold from Southland in Dunedin this weekend working through some on court & off court off season specific work this weekend.

In my humble opinion Coach Brown is arguably one of the best squash coaches we’ve seen over a very long period a time in NZ, extremely strategic, builds a brain in a player, everything asked of a player is specific to that player, everything is planned to the last detail.

His record with players is unprecedented. Multiple Cousin Shield & NZSS wins with NZ / schools, NZ junior - senior teams event winning teams NZ / District / coached majority of the South Islands top male A1 players / Multiple District Open winners / NZ junior - senior title winners / SI - NI junior - senior winners plus more, over a 30 year period …. and still going!

No active squash coach in the country has a comparable record.

We breed them good in the South!

PC - born in Greymouth, educated in Christchurch just knocked over the world no.1 to win a Platinum tour event in Qatar!

Today is world squash day & another tournament to check out in the Mainland.

A smorgasbord of squish coming to the Mainland in early 2026!

NZ Junior Age Group final team placings:

Canterbury -

- Girls 4th

- Boys (4-6th)

Combined placing 7th overall.

Coming to Christchurch in early 2026!

💥Junior Nationals Teams' Event 2025 final wrap up 💥

The Southland Boys team gave it everything this week and as we knew they would, they represented themselves; their clubs & their District with pride. They were seeded 9th and went up against some very strong teams both days. One of the goals of the Teams' Event was to try to beat their seeding - and they came so very close to doing that today in their final tie.

This was Tommy & Ethan's last shot at Junior Nationals, so it was great to give them a proper send off as they move towards the Seniors ranks.

Regan McNaught appointed as Coach/Mentor/Chauffeur/Camp Dad for this campaign. This is usually a tireless & thankless job, so A MASSIVE THANK YOU to Regan on behalf of the players, parents and Squash Southland for everything you've done in the lead up to and during this week👏👏👏👏👏

Travel home safe team!!!

Credit - Squash Southland

Mainland Squash - NZ:

As a wee side note …. we’ll officially be changing our name from South Island Squash - NZ to:

‘Mainland Squash - NZ’ in the near future.

This page is about supporting everything to do with the sport of Squash in the South Island of NZ.

Our goal is to make the South Island (Mainland) the powerbase for squash in NZ including profiling and developing/supporting our own Events, camps tours, players, coaches, clubs.

It’s about a unified approach to the sport in the South Island with no specific emphasis on any one individual or specific club, group.

It’s about raising the profile of the game of squash in the Mainland.

If anyone wants to profile anything they’re positively doing to help, grow, promote or makes a difference for our sport in the Mainland please send us a message and we’ll happily put a post up!

Day One of 2 Round Up: (South Island teams only)

🔴 Canterbury Boys:

1st rd bye. 3/11 loss to BOP. They are playing off for 4/5/6.

🔴 Canterbury Girls:

Beat Waikato 9/5. Won 12/0 against Central. Round 3 they will face Auckland at 10.30am.

🔶 Southland Boys:

Lost to Auckland & lost 2/12 to Waikato, and have a bye third round.

Midlands and Otago are not represented at this years teams events.

Southland have no girls team at the event.

NZ Age Group Final Results:

Some exceptional final(s) results from our South Island crew at the Henderson SC:

U11 Girls:

🥈Violet Casey (CromwellSC)

U13 Boys:

🥇Levi Casey (CromwellSC)
🥈Jack Crossan (CromwellSC)

U17 Boys:

🥉Bihandu Nanayakkara (NelsonSC)

U17 Girls:

🥉Casey Ellery (GreymouthSC)

U19 Girls:

🥈 Aria Bannister (Richmond SC)

Southland Boys & Canterbury now move on to contest the final 2 days of the teams event.

Thank you to Henderson for hosting an exceptional event & safe travels to all those heading back home!

South Island Finalists:

Today sees the following contesting their respective age group finals at the NZ Junior Age Group Champs in Henderson, Akld.

There’s been a strong representation of juniors from the South who made it to the 1/4 and semi finals so things are looking very bright for our game in the South!

- Violet Casey will contest the under 11 girls final

- Levi Casey v Jack Crossan in the under 13 boys final &;

- Aria Bannister will contest the under 19 girls final!

Good skills team 🙌🏼

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