In order to address incidents in which NCS members exhibit excessively poor conduct and/or unsporting behavior during NCS-sanctioned events, and to ensure the fairest possible treatment of  members involved in such incidents, NCS maintains a Disciplinary Committee (DC) with authority to review complaints about members’ conduct when submitted on a “Confidential Conduct Report” to the Director of Officiating (DO)  (form available for download here);  review evidence pertaining to cases; decide whether or not to award penalties against players; and enforce any penalties.

The DC will consist five (5) NCS Board Members:

1. the President

2. the Vice-President for League

3. the Vice-President for Women

4. the Vice-President for Juniors

5. the Director of Officiating (DO) who chairs the Committee and ensures that the below Procedure for Submitting and Reviewing Complaints is followed.   If not enough officers are available to form a Committee of five, the DO shall appoint NCS Board Member(s) sufficient to form a complete Committee, selection subject to the consent of the existing DC members.

Procedure for Submitting and Reviewing Complaints

(i) To submit a complaint from an incident with a Player, complainant must complete a NCS Confidential Conduct Report (CCR) (download here) and submit it to the DO at Director of Officiating within two (2) weeks of incident.  If there are witnesses to the incident, complainant should include their names and contact details on the CCR.   Reports not submitted to DO within two (2) weeks of incident will not be reviewed.

(ii) DO submits CCR to Disciplinary Committee for review.  After review, DC decides by majority vote if follow-up for disciplinary action is necessary.   In that case, DO collects additional testimony from witnesses as available and submits testimony to DC for review.

(iii) DC reviews all available evidence and decides by majority vote if  CCR is to be sent to Player.   If DC so decides, Player may submit a written objection/rebuttal to the DO within fourteen (14) days .  Objection/rebuttal may include testimony from additional witnesses who shall confirm their testimony to the DO within seven (7) days  (unconfirmed testimony will not be allowed).  DO submits objection/rebuttal to DC whenever available.

(iv) After review of all evidence, DC decides by majority vote if disciplinary Penalty shall be imposed on Player.  If disciplinary Penalty is not imposed, the case will be closed.  OtherwiseDC will determine the Penalty and its duration.

(v) DO informs Player of Penalty and if appropriate, Player’s Club Professional or Team Coach and/or Team Captain(s).  DO also informs those individuals at the expiration of Penalty period that it has terminated.  During Probation and Suspension, upon the presentation of new evidence, DC may amend or reverse its decision.

(vi) During a Penalty period, if the DC receives a CCR indicating that the Player has repeated the offense, DC will follow the procedure for review. If warranted, the DC may elevate the level of Penalty for the prior offense from that which would have been determined for an isolated or first offense.

Penalties

Probation

When a Player is on Probation, the DO may request of NCS Event Directors that they monitor the Player’s conduct.  Probation will not exceed one (1) year.   If there are no additional CCRs involving the Player for the duration of Probation, no further action will be taken and the case will be closed.

Suspension

Player is prohibited from participating in NCS events for a period of up to one (1) year.

Termination

Player’s membership in NCS is revoked.  Player may not be a member of NCS and may not participate in NCS events for a minimum period of two (2) years.   NCS shall refund Player’s annual NCS membership fee pro-rated to the date of Termination and inform US SQUASH of the Penalty.

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Two super professional squash players put on a thrilling display of squash on Thursday July 15th at the Sports Club/LA.   Stefan Casteleyn, former Number 7 in the world and Stephane Galifi (PSA #50) deftly handled a hardy troop of Patrons in the rarified atmosphere of world class squash for an hour.  The Patrons were thanked with torturous rallies and endless tours of the court, the kinds that sap your strength and resolve.  A supportive crowd cheered, clapped and giggled in appreciation.  The Patrons smiled gleefully through their cruel ordeals, proving that it’s a lot of fun to be hopelessly outclassed, get your butt kicked and leave the court gasping for air and wanting more.  Those who won points will remember how good it felt to earn their dues from the Masters of the Game. After the round robin the pros treated everyone to a dazzling match which Casteleyn squeaked out 12-10 in the fifth!

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Here are the winners and finalists:

Premiere Division

Bethesda “Bulls of the Burbs” defeated the Shamrock Rovers (Results, The Gym) in the finals. Players in the finals:

Bryan Keating
Rod Barnes
Pablo Buitron
Matthew Dankner

Other players during the season for the Bulls: Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah, Ross Campbell, David Easwaran, David Moss and James Zug

Roster for the Shamrocks: Brian O’Hora, Jake Gross, Drew Blacker, Michael Aylward, Nicholas Echeverria, Alex Gross, Terry Hindermann, Matt McCormick, Andrew Maruca, Patricio Grane, Peter Van Geertruyden, John Lindquist, Juan Contreras and David McDonough.

Division 2

Bethesda swept Sports Club/LA in the finals March 23:

#1 David Easwaran 3, Richard Scott 2 — (7),(6),3,9,6
#2 Teemu Suvanto 3, Joel Vengrin 1 — 14,13,(9),6
#3 Carlos Picone 3, Donald DeVries 1 — 2,(6),9,7
#4 David Elder 3, Scott Stossel 2 — 3,4,(4),(10),2

Other members of the Bethesda team during the season: David Moss, James Zug, Sanmay Das, James Lansdale, William Barker, William Craig and Samer Sadek.

Other members of the SCLA team during the season: Lawson DeVries, Saif Ullah, Cass Sunstein, Peter Wechsler and Angel Botto.

Division 3

Regency won the playoffs 3-1 over the Sports Club/LA team:

#1 Angel Botto 1 (SCLA), Justin Stilwell 3 (Regency)
#2 Hans Paris 0, Evan Teiger 3
#3 Glenn Hurowitz 0, Steven Wydler 3
#4 Peter Wechsler 3, Abir Ray 0

Other members of the Regency team during the season: Ashley Myatt, David Ayliff, Alan Steel, Charles Kemp, Pierre Missud and Chip Hollands.

Other members of the SCLA team during the season: David Dickieson, Jonathan Staunton, Mohit Bawa, Steven De Belle, Barry Fisher and Dallan McManus.

Division 4

Bethesda brought a formidable team to Worldgate in the finals of the playoffs. Three juniors played in the finals for both teams — Geoffrey Keating and Jeremy Ho at #1 and Zachary Ho at #4.

The evening ended with both teams winning two matches each and both teams won seven games each! Therefore, the next tie-breaker process employed — to count the number of points for and against in all the games for each team. When it was all said and done, Worldgate won by 10 points. (Division 4 plays point a serve to 9.)

#1 Geoffrey Keating 3 (Bethesda), Jeremy Ho (Worldgate) 0 — 2,4,7
#2 Donald Silverstein 0, Rick Kammier 3 — 3,0,1
#3 Ari Fisher 3, Gordon Coffee 1 — 7,6,(5),2
#4 John Swain 1, Zachary Ho 3 — 10-8,0,(3),5

Other members of the Worldgate team during the season: Leslie Connolly, William Ho, Ashraf Kadri, Carson Craig and Brad Phillips.

Other members of the Bethesda team during the season: Richard Jerome, Frederic Reveiz, Tracey Gebhardt, Bill Singer, Paul Connor, Jeffrey Bede, Charles Gobin, Samuel Patterson, Arnold Gordon, Damian Williams and Paul De La Croix-Vaubois.

Division 5

Bethesda beat Results, The Gym in the finals 3-1. Two juniors played — Dimitri Halikias and Kira Keating for Bethesda. Here are the results from the finals:

#1 Sarah Davidson 3 (Results), Julio Panza 2 (Bethesda) — (4),(5),10-8,5,4
#2 Matthew Norton 1, Dimitri Halikias 3 — 5,4,(3),7
#3 John Williford 0, Andrew Lazerow 3 — 6,7,6
#4 Karin Edgett 0, Kira Keating 3 — 2,6,5

Other members of the Bethesda team during the season: Walter Kuehl, Matthew Gelfand, Alfonso Guzman, Damian Williams, Robert Garral, Mark Rees, Vernon Anderson, Charlie Koo and David Keating.

Other members of the Results team during the season: Matias Lagos, Rachel Brown, Javier Arze, Benjamin Gauss and Charles Hurt.

National Capital Squash is pleased to announce a new annual awards program to recognize the achievements of juniors who have excelled in US Squash sanctioned tournament and team play during the 2009-2010 season.

To be eligible for any junior award a player must be a member of NCS and have no serious on- or off-court conduct violations. Players must achieve an end of season national ranking as required below or be accepted to play in at least the US Squash Bronze National Championship.

Most Valuable Players: This award is given to any player with an end of season national ranking from #1 to #32 or who was accepted to play in the US Squash National Championship.

If there are no players in the top 32 nationally (or who played in the National Championship) in an age/gender division, then the top ranked NCS player in that age division will receive a Most Valuable Player Award if he was ranked in the top 64 or played in the US Squash Silver Championship.

All Stars: This award is given to any player with a national ranking of #33 to #64 or who was accepted to play in the US Squash Silver Championship.

National Team Awards: This award is given to any player in age divisions up to and including U15 if the player has achieved an end of season national ranking or was accepted to play in the US Squash Bronze Championship. For players in U17 and U19, the award is given to any player with an end of season national ranking of #65 to #128 or who was accepted to play in the US Squash Bronze Championship.

Rookies of the Year Awards: This award would be given to up to eight players (not counting BU11 and GU11 awards). To become eligible for this award a player must not have had enough exposures in any previous season to qualify for an end of season national ranking.

Two awards may be given for combined divisions of BU13&15, BU17&19, GU13&15 and GU17&19. The award will go to up to the two players in each combined division with the best end of season rankings in their respective age group. As more players play, awards may be given by single age and gender division.

This award will go to any BU11 who achieves a rating of at least 2.4 or any GU11 who reaches at least 1.9 in their first year of tournament play with at least four tournaments

Discretion may be used to award a player if he has played in four tournaments and aged out from one division to another during the season. In that case, the national rating would be used to approximate a national ranking in the higher age group.

Most Improved Player Awards: One award may go to a player in each age and gender division from U13 to U19. This will be based on a comparison with the previous season end of season rating compared to the current season’s rating at the end of the year. A player must have an end of season national ranking in the previous season in order to become eligible for this award. If no player in a division improves by at least 0.20 rating points, then no award would be given for that division. If a player has an end of season ranking in two age divisions, he is eligible to win the award for either division, but not both.

These were the criteria used in the awards presented for the 2009-2010 season. NCS may change the criteria from year to year, and changes will be announced here or elsewhere on our website.

All awards were based on objective standards and we plan to continue presenting these awards on an annual basis for future seasons.

Congratulations to all the award winners for a fine season!

Most Improved Players:

Kira Keating — Girls Under 15
Cesar Peralta — Boys Under 17
Geoffrey Keating — Boys Under 19

Rookies of the Year:

Zachary Ho — BU13 & BU15
Rachel Brown — GU17 & GU19
Cameron Bahadori — BU13 & BU15
Alexander Alvarez — BU17 & BU19
Greg Berson — BU17 & BU19
Caroline Resor — GU17 & GU19

Most Valuable Players:

Liam Rotzoll — Boys Under 11
Theo Mendez — Boys Under 13
Zachary Ho — Boys Under 15
Geoffrey Keating — Boys Under 17
Bryan Keating — Boys Under 19
Candace Craig — Girls Under 13
Kira Keating — Girls Under 15
Camille Lanier — Girls Under 17

All Star Award:

Alexander Nassikas — Boys Under 19
Jacqueline Barnes — Girls Under 17
Rachel Brown — Girls Under 17

National Team Award:

Jeremy Barnes — Boys Under 13
Jack Quamme — Boys Under 13
Caden Petersmeyer — Boys Under 15
Cameron Bahadori — Boys Under 15
James Matthews — Boys Under 15
Peter Murphy — Boys Under 15
Sandeep Rishi — Boys Under 15
Aaron Fernandez — Boys Under 17
Alexander Alvarez — Boys Under 17
Carson Craig — Boys Under 17
Cesar Peralta — Boys Under 17
Cyrus Nassikas — Boys Under 17
Dimitri Halikias — Boys Under 17
Greg Berson — Boys Under 17
Robert Bohn — Boys Under 17
Sam Patterson — Boys Under 17
Carter Clarke — Boys Under 19
Jeremy Ho — Boys Under 19
Taylor Nides — Girls Under 13
Caroline Resor — Girls Under 17
Lucy Gibson — Girls Under 17

Premiere Division

Brian O’Hora faced Pablo Buitron, the Bethesda Sport & Health Club champion, in the semifinals. After dropping the first game 12-10, O’Hora won three straight in convincing fashion, 11-7, 11-4, 11-3. In the other semifinals match Dan Petrie beat Bryan Keating 11-8, 11-7, 11-4.

The finals match was a very exciting match that went to five games with O’Hora winning 11-13, 11-8, 11-8, 10-12, 11-3.

Bryan Keating took third place, beating Pablo Buitron 12-14, 11-4, 11-7, 15-13.

Women’s A/B Division

In the Women’s A/B division, Bettina Aten beat Deb Phippard in the semis 11-3, 5-11, 11-4, 11-7. Larisa Stephenson defeated Jackie Corrigan-Curray 11-4, 11-8, 11-6.

Stephenson won the finals 11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 11-9. Phippard won third place 11-9, 11-7, 11-7.

Division 2

Richard Scott defeated Joel Vengrin in the semifinals 11-6, 11-9, 11-8. David Easwaran beat Paul Koprowski in four games, 7-11, 11-8, 11-5, 14-12.

Scott and Easwaran battled in a closely contested five-game final, with Scott winning, 11-9, 3-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-8. Paul Koprowski won the third place match in a forfeit.

Division 3

Steven Wydler cruised through the semifinals and finals, beating Angel Botto 9-3, 9-5, 9-5 and then Munish Sikka in the finals 9-6, 9-4, 9-4. Sikka advanced to the finals by overcoming Steven Epstein 9-3, 9-7, 3-9, 10-8.

Angel Botto won the third place match.

Division 4

Geoffrey Keating won division 4, taking 18 straight games. Jeremy Ho ran up a big lead in game 1 of the final, but Geoffrey battled back to a 10-8 victory, then won the next two games 9-5, 9-4.

Keating beat Asid Idris 9-2, 9-0, 9-5 to make the final, while Ho beat Aaron Beitman 9-7, 9-7, 9-10, 9-2. Idris took third place in a four game match that featured two tie breakers, 10-8, 2-9, 9-4, 10-9.

Division 5

Hendrik Dey and Andrew Lazerow both won tough five game semifinals matches. Lazerow beat Sarah Davidson 9-6, 4-9, 6-9, 9-3, 9-4. Dey defeated Kyle Pasternak 9-1, 8-10, 6-9, 9-5, 9-7.

Dey beat Lazerow in the final 9-1, 9-3, 9-6. Davidson took third place in a forfeit.

Women’s C/D Division

Donna Sharpe beat Ubu Grace 9-4, 9-6, 9-2.

Here is a report on the nine NCS players who played through the last day of the tournament:

Geoffrey Keating, playing up an age division in BU19, took second place, losing in the finals to Baltimore’s David Snyder. Just two years ago, Geoff made it to the semis in the BU15 Bronze Nationals, so you could say he made more than four years of progress in less than two years.

Zach Ho lost a very tight 5 game match in the BU15 semifinals this morning, with two games decided 11-9 and one 12-10! Zach went on to win third place in another closely contested five game match. This was Zach’s first national tournament, a fantastic result!

Alex Alvarez won third place in BU17, winning in three straight games, two of which went to 13-11. Alex plays for The Potomac School’s Varsity and clearly is a rising star in the Mid-Atlantic Squash Organization High School League.

Rachel Brown took fourth place in GU17, losing in four games, with one of the losses going to 13-11.

Theo Mendez took sixth place in BU15, losing an exciting five game match that featured two tie-breaker games. This was also Theo’s first national championship tournament, and even more impressively Theo recently just aged out of BU13. Theo is another young NCS player to watch in future seasons.

Greg Berson won the consolation finals in BU17, marking another NCS player making his debut on the national championship stage. Interestingly, Greg won by successively larger margins as the tournament progressed, a very difficult task. Usually matches get more difficult to win as you progress further in the tournament. Greg won his round of 16 consolations match in 5 games, his quarterfinals match in four games, and then today won both his semifinals and finals matches in three games! During the finals match, one spectator rooting for his opponent said Greg “gets to everything!” An exaggeration perhaps, but not much. That’s a good goal for any aspiring junior — if you can get to and return the ball each time, you will win. Easier said than done.

Sam Patterson, in his debut in a national championship, reached the consolation semifinals in BU17 and played a hotly contested five game match. That was the equivalent to an 11th/12th place finish in a very competitive 32 player draw.

Carter Clarke won the BU19 plate in his most convincing win of the tournament, winning the finals in three straight games. He had to turn back Jeremy Ho in the semis, with both players playing very well in a tight five game match.

Caroline Resor reached the GU17 plate semifinals but lost a competitive four game match where no game was won by more than three points.

Congratulations to all the NCS Juniors for an excellent tournament and a record turnout among NCS Juniors!

See reports for Day 1 and Day 2.