Building on the our World Squash Day event, last Friday the club kicked off a new junior squash coaching programme. It was fantastic to see juniors enjoying the squash courts and well done to Sophie O’Rourke, our coach and Eoin O’Toole, our Squash Captain on all their organizing and starting out on a great new initiative. If any of you are interested in finding out more about Junior Squash Coaching, you can email Eoin at squashcaptain@sundayswell.ie
The club intends to run weekly Summer Camps again this year for the following weeks:. Week 1: July 5th – 9th Week 2: July 12th – 16th Week 3: July 19th – 23rd Week 4: July 26th – 30th Week 5: August 9th – 13th Week 6: August 16th – 20th The camps will be run Mondays – Fridays and non-members will be permitted but must be accompanied by a member. The times will be as follows: Age 5 and 6: 12pm – 1pm – €50 members/€60 non-members Age 7…
On Sunday 16th of December, over 70 of our junior members welcome Santa. Obviously, a very big thanks should go to Santa for popping into us and thanks also to all the to all our helpers who helped us to get ready for the special visit. Individual photos have been sent out so if you did not receive these please contact Ger.
The finals of the Davy Munster Junior open championships were concluded in superb conditions at the Sundays Well Boating and Tennis Club, Cork on Saturday 6th July. Over 7 days over 310 boys and girls in age groups from as young as under 8 right through to under 18 competed in this Category 1 Irish Junior Tennis tournament and many of the country’s top juniors from all four provinces and further afar battled in blistering sunshine for the main titles. The tournament was a big success with entry being much…
A calendar of junior friendlies has now been organised for the upcoming months. The days that there are no friendlies, there will still be club matchplay. All of the friendlies and match play will take place in Sunday’s Well and we would strongly encourage our juniors to play as it is an excellent way to get practice, meet other players while having some fun. Ger Flynn has sent the upcoming calendar of friendlies to parents and the details are listed again below. You can also find a list of all upcoming…
Yesterday, we had a visit from the Rafa Nadal Academy who came to the Club to give a few coaching sessions to members of all ages. We wish to thank the Academy for their visit, a massive thank you also to Ger, all the parents and players of all ages for their help and support of the event. Thanks must also go the members playing their regular games who were very patient when their courts were handed over a little later than normal. A few photos are now available on Facebook…
Well done to our U14 team who won the Junior Cup Final yesterday in St Anne’s, beating Killaloe 5-0. The team was made up of – Louise O’Callaghan – Ellie Purrmann – James Wixted – Reem Gafurov A big thank you also to non-playing captain Paul O’Callaghan, all the parents and coaches for their support. ????????????????
Huge congratulations to our Coaching Coordinator Ger Flynn who today was named Munster Coach of the Year. Ger is a level 3 coach and a Tennis Ireland Tutor with over 30 years coaching experience. As a player, she represented Munster at all levels and was also part of an Irish Veterans team. She has been coach and non-playing captain to numerous Munster and Irish Junior teams, travelling around Europe with the National Junior squads over a 10-year period. She currently manages the Junior Tennis Development Programme. To get this award is a…
The Davy Munster Junior Open was held last week and it was another busy week with over 260 kids taking part in 38 events! Well done to all our junior players who took part and congratulations in particular to our finalists and winners. The results are available here Also, a very big thank you to our tournament committee Emma Crowley, Mags Kelleher and Ger Flynn and the junior committee for all their hard work over the last few weeks and also thank you to our sponsors Davy and Fyffes and all…
With the last few days being extremely snowy, some of our junior members have been having plenty of fun in the Snow. Check out their efforts in our facebook album.
The junior tennis information night that was held at the beginning of January was very well attended. We had over 40 parents attend on the night and it was great to see such enthusiasm. The evening gave an overview of the club’s junior tennis offerings, the agenda covered items such as who is who in Junior tennis, what activities are available and how to join, how parents can get involved. It finished with the coaches giving a demo of various drills that parents can do with kids. A handout summarising…
On the afternoon of December 18th, the club welcomed a very special visitor. Over 65 of our younger members came to the club to welcome Santa and his elves had setup a beautiful grotto for him in the Snooker Room. Here are a handful of photos of the day, specific photos of individual families can be collected at the club office.