Monmouth Squash Club & Swim School

Valkyrie Squash Club was founded in 2003 on the site where Sea Bright Squash Club was incorporated in the 1930's and was erected from an old trolley turnabout built in the late 1890's. From trolley turnabout, to coal depot, to Badminton, and to sparring ring for the famed Joe Louis, the squash club is rich in history. The courts today are accessed through an alleyway coined "Badminton court", for the famed Badminton Tournaments that took place throughout the early twenties and thirties. In those days Sea Bright hosted hundreds of Badminton players from around the world. There were many times when forty to fifty sleeping bags could be found on court the night before a big tournament. Sometime in the early 1930's Jerry Meyer built a singles squash court adjacent to the then very active badminton court. In the early 1950's Jerry decided he was getting to old to play the very demanding singles squash game and converted the old trolley car barn into an American doubles court. He did this himself at a cost of $6, 500. At that time there were no showers or locker rooms so players would walk through a courtyard to Jerry's mother's apartment. There were players clothes hanging from about every doorknob and nail from the courts to Jerry's mothers apartment, an area that became known as the "Hanging Gardens of Sodom and Gomorrah".