{"id":41171,"date":"2024-04-11T18:55:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=41171"},"modified":"2024-04-11T18:55:48","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T16:55:48","slug":"the-best-of-sas-young-squash-talent-on-show-at-sa-schools-closed-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=41171","title":{"rendered":"The best of SA’s young squash talent on show at SA Schools Closed Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Luhann Groenewald (second from left), holding the Bloemfontein Junior Open boys’ u19 trophy, is the number one seed in the age group at the SA Schools Closed Squash Championships.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The South African Schools Closed Squash Championships<\/strong> take place at the Barrow Squash Centre<\/strong> at St John’s College<\/strong> and at Roedean School<\/strong>, in Johannesburg, from Friday, 12 April to Sunday, 14 April, bringing together the cream of the crop from across the country.<\/p>\n

The event is an invitation-only tournament and features the top players in each age group – u19, u16, and u14 – from around the country.<\/p>\n

It is also the second of three SA Schools qualifiers for top 10 national rankings. The others are the Technifibre Bloemfontein Junior Open<\/strong>, which was played from 29 February to 3 March, and the forthcoming Inter-provincial Tournament, which will be played in June.<\/p>\n

Each of the tournaments also serves as a selection event for the national u16 team’s tour of Malaysia in December, which will include six girls and six boys.<\/p>\n

In addition, the SA Schools Closed Squash Championships is a qualifying event for the annual Inter-Provincial Tournament, which takes place in June.<\/p>\n

Top Four Seeds<\/strong><\/p>\n

Boys’ u19<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Luhann Groenewald (Northerns, Ho\u00ebrskool Zwartkop), 2 Judah Phillips (Northerns, home school), 3 Devon Osborne (Boland, Parel Vallei), 4 Juan-Corn\u00e9 Brand (Northerns, Ho\u00ebrskool Zwartkop)<\/p>\n

Girls’ u19<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Chant\u00e9 Leppan (Northerns, Ho\u00ebrskool Zwartkop), 2 Elzandri Janse van Rensburg (Northerns, Midstream College),\u00a03 Bianke Pienaar (North-West, Potchefstroom Gimnasium),\u00a04 Cara Knott (Border, Clarendon)<\/p>\n

Boys’ u16<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Benji Newman (Eastern Province, Grey High School),\u00a02 Joel Rix (Boland, Ho\u00ebrskool Swartland),\u00a03 Thero Motshubi (Gauteng, St John’s College),\u00a04 Aiden McNeill (KZN, Kings Interhigh Online School)<\/p>\n

Girls’ u16<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Makayla Naidoo (KZN, St John’s DSG), 2 Brianna Robinson (Eastern Gauteng, home school), 3 Kate van Biljon (Border, Clarendon), 4. Starla Phillips (Northerns, home school)<\/p>\n

Boys’ u14<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 D\u00e9wan Borstlap (Northerns, Ho\u00ebrskool Waterkloof),\u00a02 Daniel Tarr (Border, Selborne College),\u00a03 Liam Hart (Boland, Laerskool Lochnerhof),\u00a04 Nathan Hall (Eastern Province, Ho\u00ebrskool Framesby)<\/p>\n

Girls’ u14<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 Rylee Howells (KZN, Epworth),\u00a02 Rebecca Scheckter (Eastern Province, Diocesan School for Girls),\u00a03 Gemma Clark (Eastern Province, Kingswood College),\u00a04 Lily\u00a0Strydom\u00a0(KZN, The Wykeham Collegiate)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The South African Schools Closed Squash Championships take place at the Barrow Squash Centre at St John’s College and at Roedean School, in Johannesburg, from Friday, 12 April to Sunday, 14 April, bringing together the cream of the crop from across the country. The event is an invitation-only tournament and features the top players in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":41191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}