HUDDERSFIELD Squash Club are gearing themselves up for a new season in the Yorkshire Premiership when they will unveil their new No1 player.
Alex Stait has been recruited from Heaton and will head the Premier side as they bid to improve on a ninth place finish last season.
Based in Manchester, where he plays in the National Squash League, Stait is a former world top 50 player who should bring a cutting edge to the Edgerton club who still retain the services of Dave Barnett, who will now drop down to No2, with Eddie Charlton at three, club professional and coach Dave Hymas at four with Neil Baldwin at five.
Also in the squad this season are Jamie Sutcliffe, Jimmy Moorhouse, John Pate and Robbie Temple.
And this season – for the first time in several years – Huddersfield are playing a second team in the Yorkshire League Second Division, in which Moorhouse, Adrian Wisner, Dave Worthington, Peter Bebb and Anton Syndor will feature.
The club will also submit six men’s and two ladies’ teams into the Kirklees and Calderdale Metro League, and this season, there will also be big emphasis on the juniors, with teams at Under 11, 13 and 15 level, where Halifax, Heaton and Wilsden are the opposition.
Huddersfield’s senior side, who last year also reached the semi-finals of the Yorkshire Cup, will open their Premier campaign with a home match against Abbeydale on Wednesday, at Cemetery Road (7.30pm).
