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Chaired by the President, Karim Langer the role of this committee of the Victorian Squash Rackets Referees Association Inc. is to provide a service of accredited Referees to Tournaments and other Squash events throughout Victoria.
It has a responsibility to advise the Board of Squash Australia on matters concerning refereeing, including improving the standard of refereeing, recruiting and training of referees, and the development of the Rules of Squash.
This is achieved through the planning and implementation of refereeing programs, and the ongoing personal development and training of Referees.
The following accredited Referees comprise the Victorian Committee of Management and were elected at the Annual General Meeting held on 17/11/2009. They will serve on this Committee until again being eligible for re-election at the next Annual General Meeting which will be held at the Moorabbin Squash & Fitness Centre, 10 Independence Street, Moorabbin, 3189 - Telephone: 9532 6188.
Karim was born on January 26, 1963 and currently lives at Upper Ferntree Gully in Victoria. He was introduced into competition squash at the age of 18 and started his playing career at the Elwood squash club. He is now playing in the Masters at the Moorabbin squash club, having reached State 5 Grade in the late 80's. Karim has enjoyed all level of sports from watching, playing, and umpiring participation. He has umpired from club to professional level, in many sports including baseball, cricket, tennis, and squash. Now that he has played over 20 years of squash, he believes that having peaked in a playing capacity in this wonderful sport, he has decided to give something back to squash by becoming a Referee and a Committee member.
He may be contacted by email.
resides in Melbourne and is a Squash fanatic. He is the current owner of the Knox Bayswater Squash & Racquetball Centre and has run Squash Centres since 1983; Burwood (1983-1986), Wattle Park (1986-1998) and Waverley(1998-1999). One day he'll get a real job. Geoff has been an accredited Referee since the mid 1980's and a National Referee since 1995. Geoff is the Past President of the VSRRA, having served on the Committee since 1986 as Vice President for three years and President for 2 years until ousted by Bill in 1991. He was given a Life Membership in 2000. It's not a bad hobby. Geoff still plays the game. Although not at a lofty level anymore he can still manage a win or two against the odd crippled Masters player. His greatest playing achievement was once playing State Grade; just once!!
He may be contacted by email.
Damien is a resident of Melbourne, Victoria and is an active member of Hunts Squash Club in Fitzroy. He began his playing career at the age of twelve in 1982 at Coburg Squash Club where he remained until its closure in 1998. He is currently a member of the Hunts State 2 pennant team. He became a referee in late 1995 mainly as a means of staying involved with the sport at a high level, and has since attained a National Level accreditation. He joined the VSRRA committee in 1996 and at the end of 1998 took on the role of Treasurer. He is also one of the VSRRA's Rules lecturers. His refereeing experience includes a number of Australian Opens (1996 - 2001), Australian Junior Championships (1998 & 2002), the World Open in 2001 and the World Masters Squash Championships in 2002. He has officiated at many pennant competitions around Melbourne including Premier League finals and many Victorian Satellite Tournaments.
He is a National Assessor.
He may be contacted by email.
Marcus has been playing squash since his mother took him along to her pennant night at Elwood Squash Courts in 1973. Since that time he has played pennant squash in Melbourne, Canberra and Washington DC. He first took up refereeing in Canberra in 1995 under the tutelage of Bob Leach and Martin Grace, and has continued refereeing since then. A State Referee since 1999, he was also a member of the Officiating Team at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games and has officiated at numerous junior and senior tournaments. He was a Board Member and later President of Squash ACT from 1999-2007 and is currently a Board Member of Squash Australia, with portfolio responsibility for Insurance, IT, Referees, and Finance. Since moving back to Melbourne in early 2008 he has resumed playing State pennant for Monash University (his old alma mater) and Club Circuit for MCC.
He may be contacted by email.
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He is a National Assessor.
He may be contacted by email.
Mike Edney has been involved in the squash industry since the late seventies when he started playing pennant competition with the Hunts Squash Club in Fitzroy. During his time there, he held various positions which included Match and Pennant Chairperson and President. In 1985 he became the venue operator at Southland Squash Centre and is currently leasing the Moorabbin Squash Centre. Apart from his involvement as a player, committee member, coach and operator at Moorabbin Squash Club he is also on various other commitees, which include being a Director on the Board of the Victorian Squash Federation, the Match & Pennant Co-ordinator for the Victorian Masters Squash Association (VMSA), the Venue Operators Representative in the Southern Squash League, and the Representative for the VMSA on the Technical Council of the Victorian Squash Federation.
He may be contacted by email.
Lou has been involved in many facets of squash since moving to Melbourne in 1994. He was initially accredited as a State Level Referee in 1999 after attending a clinic for people interested in the rules of squash. He has officiated at many tournaments, both Junior and Open Age Events throughout Victoria and NSW. His two most significant Tournaments were the World Masters Games in 2001 and the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in 2006.
He may be contacted by email.
Steve Murray has been a National Squash Referee since January 1998 and has had extensive International Refereeing experience during that time. He travels to Hong Kong each year at his own expense, to referee in the prestigious Cathay Pacific Squash Open, in order to not only improve his own standard, but to watch how the highest ranked referees in the world perform, against the cream of the world ranked players. Currently, Steve has refereed all of the top 25 world ranked men and all of the top 35 world ranked women.
Steve plays pennant squash twice a week and lectures in the rules of squash on behalf of the VSRRA. He is also the co-ordinator for the extensively used 'Rent-A-Ref' scheme. He invites any questions.
He may be contacted by email.
Having started playing squash in 1986 at an age when most people have given up, Warwick has never played at a very high grade, but is still trying to improve. He has always been a keen student of the game and interested in promoting its play correctly according to the rules. He qualified as a level 2 referee in 1988 but has always had many interests competing with opportunities to referee major squash games. Warwick is president and match & pennant chairman at Yarra Valley Country Club Squash Club, and is a member of the Club Circuit committee, representing that organisation on the VSF Technical Council. In addition to squash, Warwick is chief rock climbing instructor with the Victorian branch of the Scout Association, is a keen golfer and somehow manages to fit in a little time for work and a family comprising an understanding wife, six adult children and five grandchildren.
He may be contacted by email.
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