Squash Girls Can

Squash girls can offers a great mind and body workout to women and girls through fun, social group sessions.

If you are looking to grow your membership, Squash Girls Can is an effective programme to attract and retain players, and ideal for clubs, leisure centres, universities or colleges.

Squash Girls Can help you:

attract and retain a new membership audience.
engage more female players.
increase the number of people in their 20s, 30s or 40s playing at your venue.
increase court usage and associated income at your club or venue.

Who is Squash Girls Can aimed at?

Squash Girl Can is open to anyone who identifies as female and wants to learn to play or attend a beginner session. They don’t have to have played squash before or be a member of a club. Squash Girls Can was designed to create a safe space for females to get together and play squash for fun.

This type of player typically:

prefers to focus on the fun and social side of squash and knowing they had a good time. They are less interested in developing their squash skills. The planning of the sessions by the coaches will reflect this.
prefers a less competitive environment and is not motivated by competition.
prefers to have fun with others and meet new people.
prefers to have the flexibility to fit playing squash around their lives. Squash Girls Can is open to anyone to play, members and non-members, and allows players to attend sessions that suit them.

How to start Squash Girls Can

Check your workforce: do you have any Squash 101 leaders or suitable coaches at your club/venue to run these sessions?

Train some Squash Girls Can leaders: organise a Squash Girls Can leaders course or Squash 101 leaders course for coaches or volunteers from your club. Speak to your county association and other clubs and venues locally to see if there's anymore interest in a course in your area. Once you've gathered some interest, contact participation@englandsquash.com to organise a course.

Train some leaders: to run Squash Girls Can sessions, you can book a Squash 101 leaders course for coaches or volunteers from your club. Speak to your county association and other clubs and venues locally to see if there's anymore interest in a course in your area. Once you've gathered some interest, contact participation@englandsquash.com to organise a course.

Schedule your Squash Girls Can sessions: once you have some leaders trained it's time to schedule your sessions. Think about your target audience when scheduling sessions and the day and time that'll work for them. Ask your target audience when the sessions would best work for them. We suggest a regular session so people can plan it around their lives.

Promote your sessions: make sure all the information is on your website. Make use of social media and promote within your local community and with local partners. Check out our top tips for social media.

Record your sessions: use the England Squash app to record your sessions and log players. This helps England Squash monitor the programme so that we can show progress to our major funding partners and potential sponsors. Please also provide us with feedback on the programme so we can continue to make improvements. There are prizes and incentives available for using the app, along with additional resources and content to help you with your sessions.