The country’s top junior squash athletes are hitting the courts in Victoria this week (May 5th – 8th) to compete in the 2022 Canadian Junior Squash Championships. Cedar Hill Squash Club is hosting the Gold Divisions, where up to 16 athletes will compete in each category to earn the title of National Champion. St. Michael’s University School is hosting a companion Silver Draw where more athletes will join in on the action.
The event features the Squash Canada Glass Power Court, which will have matches live streamed. WATCH LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-y7qoMDBsw
“The City of Victoria and Squash BC are thrilled to host the Canadian Junior Closed Championships and particularly excited to give our young athletes the opportunity to play on the glass court,” said Tournament Chair Benjamin Uliana. “We thank all of our sponsors, volunteers, officials and of course the participants for their support in making this event a huge success”.
Top BC Juniors headline several of the draws as top seeds. In Girls U17, top seed Maria Min of Vancouver will look to follow up her 2021 title with another Canadian championship. Also defending a Nationals title is Richmond’s Joelle Kim, who leads the Girls U15 draw as top seed. Rounding out the BC top seeds is Veera Dhaliwal of Richmond in the Girls U13 draw.
All BC athletes competing this week are listed below, by division:
Girls U19 Gold
Alex Brown, Sophie Dorrius, Sofia Quon, Athena Yu, Cynthia Yu
Boys U19 Gold
Jacob Lin, Morven Liu, Rio Schafer, Joseph Toth, Christian Yuen
Girls U17 Gold
Sarah Aki, Hermione Cao, Kathryn Herring, Kira Gwadry, Ocean Ma, Spring Ma, Lialah Mavani, Maria Min
Boys U17 Gold
Roman Bicknell, Jens Bolder, Henry Jiang, Dylan Scott, Richard Wang, WeiHan Wang
Girls U15 Gold
Ella Cao, Heyang Angela Hong, Joelle Kim, Yu Ying Ng
Boys U15 Gold
Anderson Brown, Kamran Gwadry, Nathan Ko, Yusuf Matti-Alvarez, Orin Song, Norman Yue
Girls U13 Gold
Jayme Bracewell, Veera Dhaliwal, Malika Markman, Clara Min
Boys U13 Gold
Daniel Wang, Theo Song, Joseph Suh, Daniel Tiwana
Girls U11 Companion
Loretta Chung, Lily Fan, Mabelle Sy
Boys U11 Companion
Kieran Boyd, Dinno Cheng, Nathan Lai, Zaba Li, Joshua Suh, Marcelo Toriz, Nolan Tupper, Kingsley Yuan
Boys U19 Silver
Jacob Chow, Neal Jacobs, Jamie Kim, William Jensen
Girls U17 Silver
Mei Chan, Coco Li, Reva Zucko
Boys U17 Silver
Tristan Bracewell, Yoyo Chan, Aryan Dudeja, Bryson Henry, Joshua Krueger, Jaden Lee, Jet Li, Lucas Quon, Isaak Song
Boys U15 Silver
Kaleb Armstrong, Shaan Bajwa, Jonathan Gower, Leon Han, Safeer Lalji, Keoni Markman, Christian Mundstock, Roshan Pathak, Zun Shi, Steven Wang, Vincent Wei
Girls U13 Silver
Rennie Cheng, Mila Lampa, Rachel Wang, Madison Xu
Boys U13 Silver
Max Arndt, James Ashwin, Charles Gagne, Michael Liu, Kieran MacKay, Carsten Rodger, Oliver Talbot, Sebastian Tupper
For a full list of draws, schedules, results, and live scores, check out the event’s Club Locker Profile: https://clublocker.com/tournaments/13298/info