A Welsh club is benefiting from its revamped junior and adult squash classes, with over 100 new faces trying the sport for the first time.
After-school junior sessions started on Tuesday and Wednesdays in April at Aberystwyth Squash Club, based at Plascrug Leisure Centre in West Wales. Over 30 new juniors took part in the opening weeks, and since then the club has seen more new faces every week.
The club has welcomed schools to the courts with over 100 juniors trying squash for the first time on school days. The hope is to grow schools squash over the coming months in the region.
Head coach at the club, Damian Burgess, said: “We were really pleased with how many juniors signed up for the first few weeks. Giving children the opportunity to play a new sport is the driving force to starting these new junior squash sessions at the leisure centre.
“The council, leisure centre staff and our other coaches at the club have been integral in setting up these classes and the first week of junior squash was great fun.
“I have been speaking to local schools recently to offer squash lessons to schools during school time and grow the junior section at the club off the back of that. We hope the juniors are inspired by Rhys Evans who came through the junior classes at the leisure centre 10 years ago and is now a professional player.”
In April, the club hosted a free squash day with over 40 juniors and adults taking to the courts to give squash a go. The club plans to host another free squash day in June.
As well as junior squash, the club has started new adult classes including women’s squash and racketball classes and all have been a success.
Aberystwyth Squash Club have new Junior Squash and Adult classes that run every week.