Ladies Teams
Our ladies teams have contested the Championships for many years, as the club consistently had the best team in Scotland. Our earliest photographs are from 1992. On at least two occasions in the 1990’s, our ladies represented Scotland despite not winning the championship – the other team could not afford to send the players to Europe.
1992 – Alison Bowie, Gillian Munro and Desni Nixon win the Bronze medal
1993 – Un-named team comes 9th out of 12
1994 – Un-named team, but probably with Alison Bowie, Irene Cowper and Lisa McKenna comes 5th out of 12
1995 – Un-named, but probably including Lisa McKenna, come 5th out of 12
1997 – Lisa McKenna, Helen Macfie, Juliet Milne and Fiona Stevenson win Bronze medal in Lisbon
1998 – Lisa McKenna, Jacqui Edwards, Helen Macfie and Laura Hamilton win Bronze medal in Vienna
2000 – Senga and Helen Macfie, Lisa McKenna and Juliet Milne win the Bronze medal
2002 – No names
2018 – Eindhoven – Georgia Adderley, Carrie Hallam and Captain Elspeth Young win the Bronze medal. Website is available here
2019 – ESC – Georgia Adderley, Carrie Hallam, Kylie Lindsay and Jessica Shaw come 5th out of 8 – website here
2023 Paderborn – ESC didn’t qualify this year, Inverness did instead, with two of our ‘well-kent’ faces playing for them – Kirsty Lobban and Carrie Hallam.
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1992, Gillian Munro, Desni Nixon and Alison Bowie win Bronze 
1993, 94 or 95 – we’re not sure of the year in this case, but whichever it was, Helen McFie, Lisa Mckenna, Jackie Edwards and Laura Hamilton won Bronze in Vienna. 
1997 – Lisa McKenna, Juliet Milne, Helen McFie and Fiona Stevenson on the bridge over the mill lade 
1997 – there’s been some hard games 
1997 – The podium party, ESC win bronze 
2002 – McKenna and Macfie, Milne and Macfie win Bronze in Amsterdam 
2018 – Eindhoven, Georgia Adderley, Carrie Hallam and Elspeth Young win the bronze medal 
2018 – Eindhoven, Georgia Adderley, Carrie Hallam and Elspeth Young win the bronze medal 
2018 Captain Elspeth, Carrie and Georgia 
2018 Eindhoven, Georgia in action against Millie Tomlinson 
2019 Carrie Hallam 
2019 Kylie Lindsay in action 
2019 – Georgia and Carrie getting advice from Ms Lindsay 
2019 Georgia in action
Mens Teams
Pre-2010 our men’s teams could not compete with other Scottish clubs who for many years paid players to play league and cup matches. Consequently, we didn’t win the cup so didn’t get into the European Club Championships.
One assumes that the financial downturn was the reason that those clubs stopped paying for ‘mercenaries’ (although we did somehow qualify in 2000) but in any event we once again qualified in 2014, and have been back to most of them since, with the 2019 event at the club being one of the highlights. The 2017 appearance was due to the men winning the Scottish League at Newlands (photo here) for the first time since 1987.
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2023 Paderborn – With Bruno Macari-Shaw managing the team, some good results were recorded, the team achieving 7th place out of eleven entrants (see table). Rory Richmond got his first taste of ECC competition against Roehampton’s world no 31 Adrian Waller, and won one of his matches (against the Danish No 1)coming from two games down. Ross McHoul was undefeated in his three matches, and the whole playing team of Fergus Richards, Pietro Gagliardini, Chris Leiper, Craig Valente-Wallace, Ross and Rory performed well and enjoyed the experience.
2019 Edinburgh – Bronze medal winners. Rory Stewart, Stuart George, Chris Leiper, Simon Boughton, Ross McHoul Website here
2018 Eindhoven – Rory Stewart, Simon Boughton, Jacques Laas, Ross McHoul, Pietro Gargliadino and Nick Forrest. 5th place of 12 teams. Website is available here
2017 Paderborn – Dougie Kempsell, Rory Stewart, Simon Boughton, Ross McHoul, Jacques Laas, James Riches and Gareth Brown ; 6th place of 13 teams. Unusually, there are a few action action shots of the players; one might think they were normally socialising elsewhere… Tournament website is here
2013 – Riccione – more supporters than players ! Tournament website is here Simon Boughton, Jacques Laas, Ross McHoul, Colin Stirrat, Nick Forrest and Andrew Wilkinson. 12th place of 17 teams.
2000 – Simon Boughton and others finish 4th
2013 Riccione – it was difficult to find a full team photo among all the social ones… 
2013 – Oct 12 Riccione Group – Simon front right 
2013 – The motley crew in social mood at Riccione – eating and drinking this time 
2017 Paderborn – the day 1 welcome party 
2017 Paderborn – the Boys team photo 
2017 Paderborn – The Team 
2017 Paderborn – ESC versus Colets 
2017 Paderborn – Dougie Kempsell in action against former World No 9 Daryl Selby 
2017 Paderborn – Gareth Brown versus Alex Gough 
2017 Paderborn – Jacques Laas 
2017 Paderborn – Rory Stewart 
2018 Eindhoven – the Girls and Boys 
2019 – European team Championships, ESC Men’s bronze medal winners (Murray Richmond as mascot and champion court cleaner). Rory Stewart, Chris Leiper, Ross McHoul, Stuart George and Simon Boughton 
2023 ECC Paderborn – ESC versus Fitzwilliam (our old adversaries from Dublin) 
2023 ECC Paderborn – ESC versus Paderborn (the eventual winners) 
2023 Paderborn social – it’s not all squash 
2023 Paderborn social – it’s not all squash (#2)
There are a host of photos from the 2019 event at the Club, and they deserve a separate gallery – click on any of the images to enable a full screen slideshow..
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