We have received the following invite:

Dear Colleague,

The Leicestershire Schools Under 12 Invitation Doubles Tournament

The above tournament will be held on Saturday October 16th starting at 9.30 am at Babington College, Strasbourg Drive, Beaumont Leys, Leicester. LE40SZ

You are invited to enter 2 pairs of boys and 2 pairs of girls (under 12 on 1st September 2010 ) and to indicate a willingness to enter a 3rd pair or more should there be any further places available in the draw.

There will be a maximum entry of 32 pairs of boys and 32 pairs of girls on 8 courts.

The entry fee is £15 per pair.

Closing date – Monday 4th october

Yours sincerely,

Dave Watts ( tournament secretary)
LEICESTER & LEICESTERSHIRE SCHOOLS BADMINTON ASSOCIATION

29 Leicester Road
Glenfield
Leicestershire
LE3 8HE
Tel 01162873696
Mobile 07947805051                                                                                               Davewatts2112@tiscali.co.uk

All Bucks Juniors - Get your application forms in!!

The closing date for entries is Wednesday September 1st 

Download the attached form

Saturday September 18th    - all U17 & U13 events
Sunday September 19th      - all U15 & U11 events

Location:

Wycombe Badminton Centre
Crest Road, High Wycombe HP11 1UA
Tel 01494 436200

Opportunity for Bucks Juniors!!!

Hi, My Name is Amir Ghaffar, Twice English National Badminton Champion in Mens Singles.

I am running camp in the summer holidays for all ages between 12 and 19.
The start date for the camp will be Monday the 19th of July 2010 at 10am for six weeks.
The camp will be every week on
Monday……………. 10am till 1pm
Tuesday ……………. 10am till 1pm
Wednesday……….  10am till 1pm 

 
Venue: Hounslow Badminton Centre
North Hyde Lane, Southall, Middlesex, UB2 5RN

The training will mainly focus on:
-          Footwork
-          Implementing the footwork with the right shot
-          The right grip which gives you more options
-          Skills e.g. Net shots, drop shot etc
-          Core stability, Shoulder stability which leads to harder smash.
-          Strength and conditioning
-          Diet
-          How keep yourself injury free.
-          Tournament end of every 2 week with prizes.

The total number of players will be 25

The total cost for all three session per week is £60, and have to be booked in advance.

My challenge is that most of the things that you will learn is this camp mainly in Mens Singles will improve your game by 50%.

Thanks

Amir Ghaffar
Email:aamir15@btinternet.com
Tel: 07877327358

Fantastic Display by Up and Coming Juniors at U13!!

On Sunday 29 June, Buckinghamshire played their younger players up to take on Northamptonshire in this friendly U13 fixture. Of the 15 members in the team, eleven were under 11 and three were even under 9!

The Buckinghamshire team played really well, and the result was further indication of the increasing strength in depth of the Bucks badminton juniors.

The match was intensely close, with very. Buckinghamshire just took the honours 20-21 – an excellent performance considering the age difference.

The Buckinghamshire team was selected from Milton Keynes and High Wycombe and cheered support for each other throughout the match. Parents also enjoyed the event and commented on what an honour it was to be picked to represent the county.

The players representing Buckinghamshire were:

Callum Hemmings

Avinash Gupta

Steven Stallwood

Daniel Ivall

Harry Hewitt

Thomas Joy

Jamie May

Max Kelly

Oliver Chapman

Dominque Bell

Molly Chapman

Neha Madhotra

Rebecca Appleby

Katie Heenan

Eleanor Knapman

Coaches – Charlotte Morgan and Ruth Jefferies

Some key dates for next season:

Under 13

National Shires Final - Saturday 9 April 2011

Playoff for positions 5-12 - Sunday 13 March 2011

Last Shires match by 27 February 2011

Under 15

National Shires Final - 29 May 2011

Playoff - 15 May 2011

Last Shires match by 1st May 2011

Under 17

National Shires Final - 1st May 2011

Playoff - 10 April 2011

Last Shires match by 27 March 2011

Try  out at Shenley!!

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Fantastic Opportunity!!

See the attachment

Anyone thinking of returning to badminton??

Return to Badminton Aylesbury
8-9pm Coaching
9-10pm Social Play
Thursday 10th June - 12th August
Aylesbury Grammar School
£5 a week
In partnership with Bedgrove Badminton Club and reactivate Bucks

Return to Badminton Wycombe
8-9.30pm
Thursday 10th June - 12th August
Wycombe Badminton Centre
£3.50 per week or £30 for 10 weeks
In partnership with Naphill Badminton Club and reactivate Bucks

Return to Badminton Milton Keynes
7.30-8.30pm
Sunday 18th July - 26th September
Shenley Leisure Centre
£3.50 per week
In partnership with Shenley Badminton Club and reactivate Bucks

Wheelchair Badminton in Aylesbury
7-8pm
Tuesdays
Stoke Mandeville Stadium
£3.50
In partnership with Phoenix Badminton Club

No Strings Badminton in partnership with Nexus
The Beacon Sports Centre, Wednesdays, 6-7pm
Evreham Sports Centre, Wednesdays, 8-9pm
£3.50 per session (children welcome with adults at £2.50 per session)
No need to book, just turn up and play!

For more information about badminton in Bucks, please call Nina on 07901 005 320 or email ninabridge@badmintonengland.co.uk

12 June at 10 AM at the NBC Milton Keynes.

Bucks have some marvelous juniors at the clubs and Performance Centre.

County Team Challenges are top events for fun and competition.

Get  your parents involved!

All are welcome!

Our U13s achieved huge success this season and we want to make  Bucks even more prominent among the successful Counties at team events in the 2010-2011 season!!

Our team quality, discipline, and invaluable parental support is such that over the coming years, we have the capability to rival top Counties like Yorkshire for consistency, depth and top honours!!

Other Counties have their chants and routines, and we want to have the best!!

We have our lion as a mascot.

All juniors are invited to submit their proposed anthem / chant and 'moves' to become the most prominent  trademark at team events.

Please send your ideas to me at BSBA@hotmail.co.uk  and we will pick a winner - by the end of August.

The winning entry will receive the glory and be posted on this website

All ideas are welcome!!!

Nina Bridge of Badminton England  is requesting juniors to take part in a world record breaking attempt!

The world record

‘Most participants in a badminton rally’

The most participants in a badminton rally is 96 and was achieved by Aviva (Singapore), in Raffles City Mall, Singapore, on 23 May 2009.

We will attempt to break this world record on Saturday 7^th August at Stoke Mandeville Stadium between 1-3pm. For us to achieve this we will need well over 100 players to take part. We do not only want to break this record but smash it (excuse the pun)!!

I would like to take this opportunity to invite you and your club to take part in our world record attempt. We will also be organising some exhibition matches and some other fun activities for you and your team mates to come and take part in.

We hope to raise money from this event not only for our Community Badminton Network, to support new badminton initiatives in the local area, but also for Wheel Power.

If you would like to be involved in this world record attempt, please complete the registration form and send it back to NinaBridge, BADMINTON England, National Badminton Centre, Loughton Lodge, Milton Keynes, MK8 9LA. I will then allocate you a number and I can also send you a sponsorship form so you can raise money if you are interested in doing so.

See the details in the attached documents

Bucks U17 Turn the Tables and Take the Shires Badminton National Title

In the ICT finals, Bucks came third to Cheshire and Yorkshire. The  Shires League finals held at Hatfield University last weekend gave the opportunity for Bucks to take revenge!

The top eight Counties in the country fought for this Shires League title. The format was for teams to compete over 20 rubbers –  8 singles, 8 level doubles, and 4 mixed.

Bucks had won their Regional title to qualify for the National finals as one of the top seeds. This  normally gives  an easier route through the tournament, but because some of our rivals came second in their respective Regions, it proved hard.

We were drawn to play Surrey in the first round. By reputation they would be a huge challenge.

Although nervous to start with, the team showed its collective fighting spirit and with some huge performances, Bucks won by a comfortable margin 16–4.  A good victory to help build Bucks’  confidence ready for the second round draw against Cheshire, conquerors the previous week!

Cheshire came at Bucks with the intent to  repeat their victory, but had no answer to the U17  Bucks team’s’ fighting spirit. Bucks lost  3 of the first 4 games, but came back to level at 4 all after the boys games. Notably, Tom Stanford defeated Welsh International Daniel Font, and Jamie Kilgariff had a fine win against George Li.  Bucks  girls then took 3 of the 4 girls singles, and that  really drained the  confidence from the Cheshire team, with Bucks holding a 3 game lead.

Bucks now had a clear edge, and with the next 4 games being shared, it was left to our girls doubles pairs to show Cheshire a clean pair of heels. Revenge was sweet and Cheshire were beaten 12-8.  

Bucks were through to the final against Yorkshire, old enemies, and winners against Bucks the previous week! The excitement was building!

Yorkshire took a commanding lead 5-3. However, the fighting  spirit of  the girls in the team prevailed, and they won all four singles. Raveesha Fernando played a blinder with a notable win against Sophie Brown, a top U17. The score was now 7-5 to Bucks, - all to play for now and the Yorkshire players sensed a difficult time ahead!

The  boys doubles were shared 2 all, and  even more pressure mounted on the Yorks team with only the  girls doubles left. There were some awesome performances by the girls who won 3 of the remaining  4 games, giving Bucks the U17 Shires League title – 12-8.

All of the team contributed as one  to this fine effort to win yet another National title.

Peter Digby, the Team Manager  commended all players for their fair play under pressure, and extended the warmest  thank you to all the parents for their  support – without whwhich, there would have  been no success.

Celebrations afterwards were tinged with some sadness with the realisation that this was the last time this team would represent Bucks as juniors. What a success they have been right through the age groups!

BuckinghamshireCounty owes a big thank you to this team, a team of role models, and particularly to Tom Stanford – player and captain who always led from the front and gave 110% for Bucks.

The Team was:

Tom Stanford (captain)

Jamie Kilgariff

Cameron Orr

Andy Robinson

Ollie Digby

Raveesha Fernando

Emily Jeffs

Lexi  Gilders

Jess Wilkins

Nicole Burgess

Lucy Mason