For the first time since Dame Susan Devoy led the team in 1981, the Bay of Plenty women's squash team are national champions.
The team was led by Rotorua's Amanda Landers-Murphy in Napier at the weekend. The current Bay of Plenty Player of the Year has just come off an exceptional World Doubles Championships where she defended her title with Joelle King.
Joanna Shanks (Tauranga), Camden Te Kani-McQueen (Rotorua) and Nadia Hubbard (Rotorua) completed the balanced Bay team that went into the event as top seeds. The team was coached by former professional player Kylie Lindsay, and managed by the experienced Michel Galloway.
First up the Bay had a comfortable win over Eastern with all four players enjoying a win. Round two was a matchup with Wellington and it was the same 4-0 result, which saw the team through to the familiar ground of the New Zealand inter-district teams final.
In the final Te Kani-McQueen faced a much higher ranked opponent in Auckland's Juee Bhide. After a tight first game which Te Kani-McQueen won 11-9, Bhide won the next two games comfortably.