The first half of the Ontario squash season calendar wrapped up with the pinnacle event of the Mortgage Company of Canada Ontario Junior Closed Championships hosted at Mayfair Lakeshore in Toronto. Nearly 100 junior athletes competed in what is either their final event of the 2021 calendar year, or the first Championship event in a series as many Ontario juniors will be competing in the Canadian Junior Open and the U.S. Junior Open in the next couple weeks.

As the Men’s Open Leggat-Lawrence trophy attests, this event has been happening annually since 1961, until 2020 when a world wide pandemic put the event on hold for the first time since it’s inception. We are honoured to have so many doubles players return to this event and it wouldn’t have been a success without them.

The 2021 Bamboo Dental Ontario Closed Championships took place this past weekend at the Mayfair Parkway in Markham where close to 100 players competed in Open, A, B, C, or D draws. This was Squash Ontario’s first skill level Championship event since the courts have re-opened after the COVID shut down and it was so great to have seniors and juniors mixing together in draws.

Squash Ontario welcomes back Mortgage Company of Canada Inc. to its integral group of Corporate Partners for the 2021-2022 squash season. MCOCI has been supporting Squash Ontario since 2018 and more recently Squash Canada at its inaugural all-glass court event at the Yorkdale Mall in Toronto.

The Ontario Squash Hall of Fame Board of Governors is pleased to re-issue a Call for Nominations for the Ontario Squash Hall of Fame. Nominations are open now through the period ending 15 December 2021.

Squash Ontario is excited to pilot an Interactive Virtual Rules Clinic aimed at training non-certified referees or Certified Club Officials. Instead of a lecture-style rules clinic, this Interactive Virtual Rules Clinic will put your learning to the test and you’ll get real-time feedback on your referee and singles rules knowledge.

We are very excited to share the news that our tournaments are BACK ON with the Ontario Masters Championships already come and gone and now we are gearing up for the Ontario Closed Championships happening on November 20-21 at the Mayfair Parkway in Markham. We are hoping you will consider joining us for Open, A, B, C, or D level competition, whatever you feel ready for after such a long hiatus from squash competition.

Please join us in welcoming Bamboo Dental into the Squash Ontario Corporate Partner family thanks to its title sponsorship of the 2021 Ontario Closed Championships and first time sponsorship of Squash Ontario.

Supported by Squash Canada and Canadian Tire Jumpstart Charities, Squash Ontario will partner with coach Niki Aron and the Columbus Centre to run a six-week All-Girls Learn to Play Program. This program will feature games, drills and skill building with up to eight participants for one hour per week.

YDC Pro’s inaugural partnership in 2018-2019 helped support a much needed revamp of Ontario's Officiating Program and in 2021-2022 will continue to work with our team to grow both participation and foster excellence in our junior community and senior provincial team athletes. With thanks for YDC Pro’s Corporate Partnership with Squash Ontario, certified referees are funded and supported at all Championship, Junior Gold, and Junior Silver events to ensure a standard of refereeing and quality of matches are played.