From 2012 to 2013, there's just one jump!
Quick look back on 2012:
- About 800 chukkers played
- Swiss Low Goal Championship won by team Lynx Energy against Swiss German from Rocinante
- Victory of home « squad » (Veytay/JLC) against Lynx Energy in front of about 5'000 spectators and celebration of 10-year partnership between the Manufacture from le Sentier and the club around this event
- 5th Friendship Cup taken away by the Piaget team, new sponsor in Veytay
- Emphasis on developping « smaller » competitions like the Opening Tournament and the National Holiday Cup with among other things, a bar as well as music set up besides the field
- A growing contingent of players (confirmed and beginners) both among the adults and juniors (12-18 years old)
- Introduction of pony lessons for children (8-12 years old)
- An intensive clinc organized in May
All in all, a very good year...
The club aims at doing even better in 2013. The 2013 calendar can be donwloaded below. Among the new things :
- Organization of a 10-day intensive polo clinic in Argentina in March, in order to kick-off the season in the best possible way
- An arena polo tournament over 2 weekends in April with teams from Suisse romande and Suisse alémanique
- An initiation day for members’ families and friends mid-June
- Hosting the Swiss Medium Goal Championship, the highest league of Swiss polo, on the last weekend of June
- A new tournament, the Lac Léman Trophy, in July
- A ligth raise of the handicap in the Jaeger-LeCoultre Polo Masters 2013 compared to the 2012 edition ; now hp 6-8. The tournament’s 25th anniversary will also be celebrated
- etc...
We look forward to seeing you here in Veytay next season and wish you, in the meantime, all the best for 2013 !
The Polo Club de Veytay Staff
