Cricket AGM - 2 pm, Sunday, 28 January
The Cricket AGM is planned for Sunday 28 January 2024 at 2 pm at the club and also remotely.
The Cricket AGM is planned for Sunday 28 January 2024 at 2 pm at the club and also remotely.
Many of you will have seen this week's Flash on the opportunity for us to bid on the 1900 Paris Olympic Silver Cricket Medal, engraved with the name of our Member, Arthur MacEvoy, also a France Champion footballer with SAC's illustrious late 1890s team.
The reserve price is 3500€, so with auction fees, we believe it can be acquired for between 4300 and 5500€.
The response to the crowdfunding effort has been amazing -- over 35 individuals and the Cricket Section have contributed anything from 2€ to 500€ each. We had a particularly generous donation from a former cricketer who remembers the Club fondly from 20 years ago! Our total now stands at 3550€, so we are at 64-82% of the estimated price.
The auction is next Tuesday.
Thanks to everyone for your messages and responses. If you would still like to contribute even 2€ to get us over the line, please drop a note to Rich Parkin at .
Last Saturday's AGM saw a new Committee voted in for 2022/23
- Maxime Antoni: Chairman
- Guillaume de Gournay, Olivier Plessis and Philippe Vignal: Club tournaments and Tennis evening
- Phoebe Strouts, Victoria Migliore and Matthew Curtin: Tennis school, Junior Tennis and Tennis coach.
- Mikaël Jayet: Competition team
- Melvyn Cooke: Sèvres Tennis Club and Tennis licenses
- Philippe Ayme-Jouve: Grounds
Two more volunteers are expected to join the Team in the coming days.
Last Saturday's Tennis Section AGM (13 Jan) saw a new Committee voted in for 2024
President: Philippe Ayme-Jouve; Vice-President: Gaétan Des Rieux ()
Junior Tennis (): Yael Beer-Gabel, Victoria Migliore
Tennis licenses (): Philippe Ayme-Jouve, Gaétan Des Rieux
Tennis tournaments, Spot kids, events (): Maxime Antoni, Guillaume de Gournay, Sophie Nicholson
Courts care and renovation:
Philippe Ayme-Jouve
Padel_Étude
Martin Arrighi, Guillaume Lescure
MC Co-ordinator
Roland Tchertoff
The Tennis Committee would like to thank deeply our Vice President Gaëtan together with Georgina Marrison and Roland Tchertoff from the Management Committee to have been able to renew all the club members’ tennis licenses with the French Tennis Federation (more than 300 licenses) thus allowing everyone to get Roland Garros tickets on time and to participate to the various tennis competitions in “Ile de France”.
That has been an enormous amount of work done in emergency and within less than a week's time…
Our lift has required multiple repairs recently. Thanks to Carole Gressier, who has called the maintenance company almost daily to get this resolved, the lift is now working properly again. However, users are advised not to open the door manually!
50 players took part In the 42nd Spring Cup Stableford competition. Congratulations to Gorka Masson, winner of the Castrol Cup, with a gross score of 30 points and to Financial Times Cup winner Sue Hall with the best Ladies' Gross score (20). The best Men's Net scorer (Spring Cup) was Théotime Punelle with 41 points. The best Ladies' Net scorer was Joyce Jacques with 39 points. The best SAC scorer was John Goodhardt with 40 points. Other notable SAC successes were Emile Freiha, closest to the pin on the 9th, and Sue Hall for the Longest Ladies' drive on the 4th.
Read on for more details (or see this article or the FFG site for all the scores).
Note that Monica communicates with regular users via a WhatsApp group, so ask her to add you if you're interested.
Contact Monica by email (at ), WhatsApp or look at her website monicashaka.com for the latest information.
There will be a second cricket tour to the Desert Springs resort in Almeria, Spain on the 28th February to 4th March, a triangular T20 tournament against the Embassy Paris and Essex seniors.
High/Low lights will be available on Youtube (see https://www.youtube.com/@standardathleticclub-crick3094) and we aim to avoid breaking rental vehicles this year. (See the report of last year's trip here)
A limited number of Melton wool cricket caps made by the supplier to the English men's team are available priced at 25 euros. Read on for photos.
Continuing our long-term relationship with the Golf de Villarceaux, the 42nd Spring Cup was held at Villarceaux on Saturday 3 June.
Read on to see the FFG's version of the results or visit the FFG Site
Come and play Squash!
Squash is a great sport for all ages:
- We are looking for young members who would like to try squash, especially aged 8-11. Lessons are Saturday afternoons, currently 3 pm - 4 pm. Contact David Moore at to organise a test lesson with our pro coach Roland Bassibey
- We are also looking for adult squash players of all levels. Again contact David for more information.
Thanks to the members who volunteered for the front desk duties! More volunteers would be appreciated to help look after the front desk on Saturdays and Sundays!
Hours are between 10 am and 5 pm, for at least one hour, please. The duties are principally checking in members and guests.
Please contact if you can possibly help and we'll add you to our WhatsApp helpers group. Thank you!
On Sunday 28 April, there are a series of races (Foulée Meudonnaise) running along the main road, Route Royale and other roads around the Club, which will be closed to traffic all morning and probably until 2 pm.
See https://www.fouleemeudonnaise.fr/ for details.
Janine's 'Sunday' Brunch will be served on Saturday 27 April instead.
The 2024 Junior Cricket season will start on the first weekend in May. For more information contact our head of Junior Cricket Adhavan Manoranjan at
See this article for the 2024 Fixture List.
For more information and how to enrol please read on.
The 2024 Section subscription is now due.
Following the vote at the last Section AGM, for Section and Villarceaux members this amounts to 60 euros. The fee for Section membership without Villarceaux membership is 30 euros.
Payment details have been sent to existing members. Anyone wishing to join the Golf Section should contact .