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On August 25, the Ottawa squash world lost one of its finest coaches and organizers. Ron Hughes grew up in Calgary, graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago, and became a PE teacher in his hometown. He was an excellent gymnast and swimmer, and proficient at badminton and basketball. Ron later spent most of his life as a diplomat with the…
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Ian Milne was one of Ottawa’s most accomplished squash promoters and planners during the heyday of our game in the 1970s and 1980s. The ODSA was sorry to note the passing of Ian Milne at the age of 87, on March 20, 2021. Ian emigrated from Scotland to Canada in the 1960s and eventually settled with his family in Ottawa…
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Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the ODSA Open City League 2020/2021 has been suspended until at least the end of 2020. We will assess the situation at the beginning of December to determine whether or not having a partial season will be possible in 2021, however it seems unlikely this will be possible so there is a good chance…
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The 2019/2020 ODSA Open City League season unfortunately came to an abrupt close on March 11, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shut down of the entire world. This year saw 1415 individual matches involving 274 different players. Congratulations to this year’s league champions: WSQ1. After a slow start in warm-up session finishing 4th, WSQ1 followed it up…
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Every year in January there is a gala dinner where the top Ottawa athletes in their respective sports are honoured. We need some nominees for our top amateur squasher for 2020. One must live or be from Ottawa for this nomination. So sorry, that rules out our stars on the Quebec side of the river for this award. The award covers the 2019/2020…
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Hello ODSA Squashers, We are indeed in challenging times due to the implications of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments and organizations are reacting to the situations quickly and with various measures. Besides the various recommendations of governmental health agencies there has been reaction from local municipal administrators that directly effects community activities and us, the ODSA. Most directly is the decision…
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