NEWLY-CROWNED Yorkshire Cup winners IT Sports Wigginton decline to recline on their laurels.
The squash sensations are already looking ahead to the 2002-03 Yorkshire League campaign by targeting new recruits and even more silverware.
The Wigginton squash club's debut term in the YL premier division was capped in tumultuous style by their capture of the Yorkshire Cup over premier kings Pontefract to add to their third-placed finish in the league standings.
But now the club have sampled trophy conquest, they want more, declared player and major backer Ian Tooms.
"The aim is to improve next season and that will mean we will be going to strengthen the squad," said Tooms.
"It's been a fantastic year, especially in our first season in the premier division to have won a trophy and to have finished third in the league. But we want to do even better next year and that would mean challenging to win the league."
Even as he paid tribute to this year's Yorkshire Cup-winning ranks, Tooms already has several players lined up in his sights and he expects to have talks with potential recruits during the summer.
"This has been the best team I have played in. It's had a great spirit all season long and everybody came through for everybody else. But we will be looking to boost the squad."
He has also been heartened by several compliments paid by the Yorkshire Squash League committee, who sanctioned the move from the second division to the premier set-up for the Wigginton club last autumn.
"It was an unprecedented move, but we put a strong case forward that if we were allowed to move into the premier division then we promised we would have the money and the players to compete," explained Tooms.
"This season we have proved that. I think we deserved to win something and to do it on our last match of the season was great. Now we aim to from strength to strength."
Updated: 12:04 Friday, May 03, 2002
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