We had a special visitor to the club today, and it was absolutely great, a huge thank you to Mags & Fiona and all their team who did a wonderful job preparing for the visit. Of course, a giant thank you to Santa himself for taking the time to come to the club, we know he is a very busy man at the moment! Photos of the event are available at this link on facebook, individual family photos will be emailed in the coming days.
Well done to all who took part in the annual Neilly Sull open, as always the level of squash was fantastic. As we all know these things don’t run themselves so a big thank you to Eoin, our squash captain and to Ken O’Keeffe the tournament director for all their work and the final thank you goes to O’Sullivan Brothers DIY who very kindly sponsored the event. Well done everyone and see you all next year. Photos of the event are available on facebook at this link.
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
A massive well done to our squash committee headed by Eoin O’Toole on a very successful world squash day. We saw superb squash potential from our juniors and an amazing display of skill from Sophie O’Rourke and Johnny Hurley in their exhibition match which finished with Sophie winning 2-1. The Squash Committee are now working to set up a new junior programme and more news on this will follow soon.
The Induchem Club Championships concluded on Friday with a fantastic finals night. 162 players took part across 16 events and it was abosolutely wonderful to the see the return to tournaments and to see the wonderful friendly, sporting atmosphere that the club is all about and needless to say the standard of tennis was super as well. Well done and thank you needs to go to Emma, our captain and tournament director and her committee along with all the volunteers who helped and of course those who baked the delicous…
On Sunday 5th September the Summer Cup Finals were held in Rushbrooke. Sunday’s Well had 3 teams in the finals. In the first match of the day, our Grade 6 ladies battled each other in a nail biting final. It was Norma’s team that came through, hard luck to Adrienne’s team who put up a strong fight. The teams were Later on in the day, our Grade 1 Mixed team took on the home team Rushbrooke, they also had a superb win. Well done to all the players concerned.
We are delighted to say that the 2021 Summer Cup will be going ahead and Sunday’s Well will have 11 teams across the 6 grades. The full teams are listed below and members can follow the tournament at this link. We wish all our teams the very best of luck! Grade 1 Niamh Coveney Abbey Hayes David Hannam (Captain) Andrew O’Mahony Grade 2 Ladies Eileen Daly (Captain) Ann Naughton Michelle Hayes Karen Higgins Mixed Sandra Higgins Maura McCarthy Ron O’Mahoney (Captain) Jeroen Proos Grade 3 Gillian O’Grady…
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…
This week, Club Chairman, Mr John O’ Sullivan accompanied by the Club Trustees and staff made a presentation to Mr Michael Spillane who recently retired. Michael was Club Steward for Sunday’s Well for 29 years from 1991 – 2020. Michael arrived at Sunday’s Well with considerable experience as was outlined in this Irish Examiner profile in 2016. Since his arrival, he has been a fantastic servant of the club and always provided the warmest of welcomes to members and visitors alike. He was an intricate part of raising…
This year, we had four teams reach the semi-finals and these were played this weekend. Of the four, three have now reached the finals. Unfortunately, Marks G4 team were pipped in super doubles away to Bishopstown but Donal’s G3 team won at home to Tralee, Gillian’s G4 Ladies won away to Monaleen and Niall’s G6 team won away to Causeway in super doubles. Role on the finals! C’mon the Well!!!!!
Munster Branch has issued details of this year’s Winter League. It will be run in two phases. The first phase will run from Mid October to January and the second phase will run from Mid January to April. These will be two distinct competitions and the format of each will be slightly different. At the moment we will concentrate on Phase 1. Phase one will be played in Grades 1 through 6. For those of you who have not played before, each grade is run as a separate competition and…