No5 Barristers Chambers National Club Championships 2018/19

11 August 2018 - by Spence

No5 Barristers Chambers

National Club Championships 2018/19

Dear Club Manager/Squash and Racketball Captains,

Please find attached the entry forms for the No5 Barristers Chambers National Club Championships 2018/19.

Last season 95 clubs entered teams, which culminated in an amazing finals weekend, where Edgbaston Priory Club became the Men’s Champions & Pontefract, became the Women’s Champions.

Champions in the other categories were -

Bexley – Mixed O35 Champions

Colets – Mixed O45 Champions

Colets – Mixed O55 Champions

Bishop Stortford - Non-County Player Champions

Surbiton – Racketball Champions

Hallamshire – Mixed Junior Champions

Edgbaston Priory Club (Men) and Pontefract (Women), plus Edgbaston Priory Club (2017 European Club Champions – Women’s), will be representing England at the 2018 European Club Championships taking place in Eindhoven in September. 

Edgbaston Priory Club, have been organising the No5 Barristers Chambers National Club Championships since 2015 but this will be our 5th and final year of organising this wonderful event. We would like to thank No5 Barristers Chambers - who have supported the event and helped it to grow - to every club who has entered, all the team organisers, managers, fans and now friends of these championships.

We will be passing the baton of running the championships on to another club/organisation for the 2019/2020 season and we wish whoever takes it on our very best wishes. For our last season as hosts  Edgbaston Priory Club would like to put on the largest Championships so far, so please pass on the entry form to other clubs and county associations.

Michael Harris will be the Tournament Director. He can be contacted via email on nationalclubchampionships@gmail.com

There are 8 categories, Men’s, Women’s, Mixed O35, Mixed O45, Mixed O55, , Men’s Racketball, Men’s Non County Player and the Mixed Junior* (*new rules apply)

The winners of the Men’s & Women’s Event will be eligible to represent England at the European Club Championship  2019’s.

The format for the National Club Championships 2018/19 will be dependent on entry numbers. If possible, we will run regional group stages, with the winners moving into a knockout stage.

Teams that qualify will compete at the Finals weekend, which will take place at Edgbaston Priory Club on Saturday 27th – Sunday 28th April 2019.

Please find enclosed an entry form and regulations for the above tournament.  If you do not deal with such matters please pass onto the relevant person within the club.

If you have any queries regarding the competition please email nationalclubchampionships@gmail.com

Please note that entries close Monday 24th September 2018 and we look forward to receiving your entry.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Michael Harris

Tournament Director