National Bank Financial Winter Carnival Open Squash Tounament

February 8, 2005

National Bank Financial Winter Carnival Open Squash Tounament
February 25-27, 2005

2005 National Bank Financial Winter Carnival Open Squash Tournament attracts Canada’s #1 Junior! Keith Pritchard, age 17, from Calgary, AB confirms that he is coming to Vernon to compete.

Sherman Dahl, Tournament Director, is also pleased to confirm some of Canada’s best open players will be in Vernon for the tournament Feb 25 – 27, 2005.

Defending champion Andrew Lynn of Vancouver (#7 in Canada) will be battling Canadian #10 Ian Power of Hanover (brother to world champion Jonathan Power). Ian Power has his sights set on winning the 2005 event. Ian has been playing well on the international PSA tour and will give Lynn some serious competition.

The elite open draw is an eight man format and will also include: Joe Forster of Edmonton (#20 in Canada), Jonathan Hill of Calgary (#22 in Canada), Jorge Quintero of Victoria (#83 in Canada) and Bryan Ford of Edmonton (#87 in Canada).

Rob Morris of Roster’s stated “We need to work on building our junior program in Vernon, and attracting the #1 Canadian Junior will highlight the great sport of squash for the local players”.

The total cash prize is $4000 for 2005. This could not be possible without the support of the following sponsors:

National Bank Financial, Raven Traders, Joseph Hattori Law Corp, RB Squash Sales, Royal Lepage, Advertising Works, KPMG, Lunde Architect & Lorne Lillemo Enterprises.

For further information contact Sherman Dahl at 250 260-4585 or toll free at 1-866-992-8822 or
e-mail – sherman.dahl@nbf.ca