The St Andrew’s School will be hosting its Invitational Squash Festival from Friday, 7 February, until Sunday.
As always, the main objective of this tournament is to provide an opportunity for the young Free State Squash players to play against other top squash players in the country.
In doing so, they will obtain the necessary exposure and experience they require in order to compete successfully with the other provinces.
This is the 31st consecutive year the event will be hosted.
The festival was established in 1995 when resources were limited. The Morgan and Deutschmann families set out to lay the foundations of a hugely successful festival with sponsorship from First National Bank, which continued for 28 years.
This is the third consecutive year that Standard Bank has been on board to support the event.
Nine school teams and one invitational team attended the inaugural festival in 1995. The participating schools included: Dale College, Graeme College, Grey College, Maritzburg College, Potchefstroom High School for Boys, Pretoria Boys’ High School, St Alban’s College, St Andrew’s School and St Stithian’s College.
Today, the festival is a major event on the national squash calendar, with 24 teams participating.
Grey College, Maritzburg College, Pretoria Boys’ High, St Andrew’s School and St Stithian’s College will participate once again.
Pretoria Boys’ High, Grey College and St Andrew’s have attended all 31 these events throughout the years, with Selborne College having attended 30 of the 31 events.
