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January 26, 2008

Women’s Team Win Silver in Moncton

So, the journey began bright and early on Thursday morning. Sarah, Alicia and I met at Vancouver Airport ready to play our best squash (that’s including drop shot’s not bomb’s). Luckily we got plenty of legroom on the way there and the journey was completed very quickly with the team bonding from all different areas of the world. Alicia was born in Mexico, Sarah in New Zealand and myself in lil’ old England. We shared stories of growing up in our different squash communities. Alicia play’s at the Evergreen Club, Sarah and I play regularly at Jericho squash club.

So we have a great Moncton local gentleman pick us up from the airport with finite details of the local area, we were so impressed with his passion for the squash club and City. We checked quickly into the Coast Plaza, central to Moncton Town Centre. The Squash Club in Moncton was not far from the hotel and has just opened in the last 3 years by playing members. They have done an amazing job and have 3 great courts. If you ever wanted to go and visit you would be more than welcome. Every little detail was looked at closely; we even had a calling card in our packages to phone home and to my delight luxury lotion and soap from a local Moncton Company. The Men’s bathrooms even had pretty flowers in the Urinal’s for the event. Yes, the girls stole the Men’s bathroom for the event. It was the first time we’d seen a line up outside their allocated one toilet; I guess you’d have to be there to see the funny side.

So down to the Squash, we played in usual style at 9am (5am Vancouver time…..ahhhhh) against NWT, we defeated them in 3. Then we played the notorious “youngster” Ontario team, consisting of the dynamite duo, Steph Edminson and Rebecca Hazel and the thirty something Leah, it was tough, we knew it was going to be, but we managed to pull it off 2-1. So we played PEI on Saturday 9am, sharp. double ahhhhhh. We played well and improved our tactics for the play off’s against Manitoba, we had a strong start from Alicia and nicely followed by Sarah, we won 3-0. Off we were excited to play in the Final against the strong Quebecer’s. It was a tough match and we all played well, however they managed to pull off a 2-1 win for us to take home a well-earned Silver Medal. I would just like to say thanks to my amazing teammates, I had a great time and look forward to a nice long rest! Thanks again to Squash BC for sending us!

Emma Parke