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September Level 2 Coach Award course in Sunderland

Dates: September 5th, 12th & 26th
Assessment : November 7th
Venue: Sunderland University

Full Details and Application form

Most Promising Under 12 player receive awards

The annual awards for "The most promising Under 12 Boy and Girl players in the County" presented by North Tyneside Council were recently awarded to Alisha Israni and Philip Pahatouridis.

Alisha and Philip received their shields from the Deputy Chair of North Tyneside Council, Councillor Huscroft, at a reception in the North Tyneside Council offices. Philip is following in the footsteps of his older brother Aristo, who won the award two years ago.

ICC 2008-2009

All reports and results available

National Inter-School Badminton Finals - Church High School's superb achievements?

Both teams from Newcastle Church High School performed brilliantly in the Finals of the Center Parcs National Inter-School Championships held on 25/26 April at the Center Parcs Sherwood Forest Resort near Nottingham.

In the Key Stage 4 Age Group (Years 10 and 11) Church High School finished Runners-up to Nottingham High School, whose team contained a number of England Squad members.

In the Key Stage 3 Finals again the Church High girls excelled, finishing third of the 9 teams.

Full Report

Free Workshops for Coaches

Northumberland Sport is offering FREE workshops to coaching living and or coaching within Northumberland.

There is a wide range of courses available:

Safeguarding Protecting Children
Managing Challenging Behaviour (part of School Sports Coaching Programme)
Grow your Club delivered by Svend Elkjaer (Director of Sport Marketing Network).
Emergency First Aid
A Club for All.

The Managing Challenging Behaviour in Sport Workshop is part of the school sport coaching programme and is aimed at coaches delivering in schools.

The workshop programme is just over two weeks away and places are filling up fast if you want to attend any of the workshops or know people who would like to book on any of the workshops the deadline of the end of this week. So the resources can be booked.

For dates and venues of the workshops use the link http://www.northumberlandsport.co.uk/coaches/coach-development/coach-workshops

EFDS Award for Badminton star Will

Disabled star badminton player William Smith from Prudhoe, has just received the English Federation of Disability Sport North East Young Male Achiever Award for the second time. Will picked up the award for the first time two years ago after he won a Bronze medal in his first appearance in the European Disabled Badminton Championships. Will, an amputee, has had a really successful season, winning medals in every tournament he has played in, both in Europe and in the UK 4 Nations Series - an outstanding achievement considering Will is still only 18 and has been competing against players far older and more experienced than he is. Will, a student at Newcastle University, trains in Newcastle and is coached by Rob Wetherell, Head Coach of the Newcastle Performance Centre. He is highly ranked in Europe in both Singles and Doubles.

Northumberland's Badminton Development Officer Norma Waterfield, who nominated Will for the award, and has been helping him as much as possible, commented "Will thoroughly deserves to have received the award. I have seen him develop and improve considerably over the last few years, with great support from his family. I hope Will is destined for further success, he certainly has a huge amount of talent."

Casual Badminton Courts at All Saints College

Courts for casual play are now available in the excellent 4 court sports hall at All Saints College in the west of Newcastle.

The days and times are:
Wednesday evenings - 6.00pm onwards
Thursdays - 6.00pm – 7.00pm
Fridays - 6.00pm onwards
Saturday / Sunday - anytime

For more information re costs etc contact Amy McCulloch, Sports Centre Manager, on 0191 2672680

Under 17 Inter County Tournament

This year's ICT took place at Nottingham in mid-April and Northumberland's team continued its recovery from the disappointments of two years ago by finishing a very creditable 27th of the 40 contesting Counties. There was
more strength and depth in both boys and girls than in recent years and this, combined with a number of practice sessions with County coach Rob Wetherell, clearly helped produce a stronger performance.
Team Manager, Paul Reaston's report is attached. Many thanks to him for all his hard work throughout the season - and for putting himself through the minibus driving test. Thanks also to Rob and to Ian McGough for coaching support and a very special word of thanks to Nikki Cholakova for
her tactical input and invaluable support to Paul at the tournament.
For the record, Yorkshire were at last toppled from their perch by Surrey, who won a very close final by the smallest of margins. For more local interest, Northumberland finished above both Durham (30th) and Cumbria (34th).

Tournament Report

Level 1 Coaching Award Course

Dates: 6th and 20th September 2009 with assessment on 27th September
Venue: Benfield Centre for Sporting Excellence with the assessment at Church High School

Closing date for applications 20th July

Full Details and Application Form

Benfield Sports College And Church High Collect More Trophies at U18 Newcastle Schools Badminton Championships

For the first time, Northumbria University hosted the U18 Newcastle Schools Badminton Championships at their Coach Lane Campus Sports Centre. Nine Newcastle Schools took part, some entering the tournament for the first time.

Full Report and Results

More Success For Will Smith

Disabled star badminton player Will Smith from Prudhoe is certainly building up his collection of medals! Will has just competed in the Scottish Leg of the 4 Nations Tournaments in Largs. He returned with two more Silver Medals, taking the Runner-up spots in both the Men's Singles and Men's Doubles! Another outstanding achievement for Newcastle University student Will, who is always competing against players who are much older and more experienced than he is.

New Club, Coach and Volunteer Workshop programme for Tyne and Wear

Programme for April - September 2009

League Results

The League tables will now be automatically updated following notification of results. Results can now be seen on the League page of the website so if you want to keep up to date with these then regularly check the page as the results will not appear as a news item following this change in updating mechanism

League Results Page

Revenge For Cramlington Team

In the All Northumberland Key Stage 4 (School Years 10 and 11) Badminton Finals held at The Centre for Sport in Newcastle, the Boys' team from Cramlington Learning Village emerged as County Champions, defeating the Regional Winners Benfield Sports College.

The event gave the winners of the School Sports Partnership Rounds in the Center Parcs National Inter-School Badminton Championships across the whole of the Northumberland Badminton Association area, the opportunity to play against each other. Despite some late withdrawals, the Finals were a huge success, with some particularly close hard fought matches in the Boys' event. The boys from King Edward VI High School in Morpeth gave an admittedly depleted Benfield team a shock, defeating Benfield 3-2. They also narrowly defeated Blyth Community College 3-2, and won their other matches against Coquet High and John Spence, but having lost to a determined Cramlington team 1-4. finished a very creditable second. Cramlington Learning Village, who had been within a whisker of winning the Regional Final in February, won their first 4 games reasonably comfortably before once again coming up against Benfield. This was another tight match, with Cramlington coming out on top 3-2, but with only a few points separating the 2 teams. The Cramlington boys were absolutely delighted - a well deserved victory!

Once again the Church High girls were unbeatable in the Girls' event. They won all of their matches very easily. It was really encouraging to see Churchill College from North Tyneside do so well, ending up second.

Norma Waterfield, Badminton Development Officer, was full of praise for all the teams which took part in the Finals. "It was a pleasure to run this event, which was played in a wonderful spirit. We wish the Church High Girls' teams and the Benfield Sports College Boys' teams the very best of luck in the National Finals at the end of April".

Results

	Boys		Girls
1	Cramlington Learning Village	1	Church High School
2	King Edward VI, Morpeth	2	Churchill College
3	Benfield Sports College	3	John Spence Community High School
4	Blyth Community College	4	Coquet High School
5	John Spence Community High School
6	Coquet High School

Second Performance Centre For Northumberland

Badminton England have just confirmed that a second Performance Centre is to be established in Northumberland. This is to be "The North Tyneside Performance Centre".

It is intended to have the Centre up and running for September. The search will now begin to identify talented youngsters all over North Tyneside and the surrounding area to join this new Performance Centre.

Well done to Mike Waterfield for all his hard work in putting the successful application together, assisted by NBA Chair Dennis Gray.

Fifth Premier Club

Congratulations to Newcastle Club St Gabriels! The club has just gained Premier Club status, joining the County's other Premier Clubs Elmfield, Newcastle Medicals, Whitley Bay and John Watt Academy.

Club, Coach & Volunteer Development Programme

The latest edition of the Club, Coach & Volunteer Development Programme is now available. The document contains details of courses and workshops taking place in Tyne & Wear between April 2009 and September 2009, including venue, cost and contact details for further information.

All the courses in this programme can now be found on the Tyne & Wear Sport Training and Education Directory at www.tynewearsport.org/ted . Using the system you can request booking for any of the courses by completing an online form which will automatically be sent to the course organiser.

The programme is available on the website and printed copies of the programme are also currently being distributed.

Community Badminton Networks

We now have 3 Community Badminton Networks in Northumberland - in North Tyneside, Newcastle and now South East Northumberland .

Community Badminton Networks leaflet

North East Regional Final of the Center Parcs National Inter-School Badminton Championships

The boys from Benfield Sports College and the girls from Church High School made it a double triumph in the North East Regional Final of the Center Parcs National Inter-School Badminton Championships staged at John Spence Community High School in North Shields.

Full Report and Results