Our Northumberland round of the BE Bronze Under 13 Circuit was held at TBC in late November and brought a good sprinkling of medals for our youngest juniors. (more…)

Northumberland’s BE Under 17 Bronze tournament was run parallel to the Under 13 event in late November and again saw medals of all colours won by our county juniors.  The honours went to Lucy and James Dodd, Charlotte Graham, Amy Ward, Ollie Edmondson, Jack Tilbury and Matthew Short who were all placed in the medal positions. (more…)

There will be a full weekend of good junior badminton at TBC on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st.  Eight teams from north and south of the border will be battling…

Last Sunday saw both our U14 and U18 teams playing their counterparts from Yorkshire.  The younger team are still very inexperienced and found the going tough, losing the match 6-14:…

Northumberland’s U18s continued their strong start to the Shires League season with an impressive 17-3 victory over North rivals Cumbria, at Tyneside Badminton Centre in early December.

Northumberland’s team were: Charlotte Graham, Eve Beechinor-Collins, Natalie Ho, Teeda Prapunwong, Dominic Wilson-Baker, Jai Nayyar, Matty Grant and Sonny Ho. 

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On a very cold start-of-December day, Northumberland’s Under16 team travelled to the neutral venue of Pontefract to play Cheshire in their first match of the season in the Shires League.  The team, managed by Joel Dodd, was Charlotte Graham, Ellen Davison, Katrina Ho, Lucy Dodd, Hugh Twelves, Jack Tilbury, Jamie Grant and Ollie Edmondson.    They were up against a strong Cheshire team, including a number of high achievers on the junior national Circuit.  On paper this was going to be a tough match for Northumberland and so it proved to be – although the final score of 17-3 in Cheshire’s favour was perhaps an unfair overall reflection of the whole match. (more…)

A technical problem with our website has meant there has been a delay in posting reports for the juniors’ initial Shires League matches.  The first of these took place at TBC in mid-November when the Under 18s played Yorkshire2.  This was a close match which we just lost 9-11 and the following is team manager Karen Davison’s report. (more…)

A full report will follow in due course but we need to register a number of medal-winning performances by Northumberland's juniors in Saturday's Under 13 and Under 17 Bronze tournaments.…

Seeded 2 in the Under 15 Gold girls singles at Milton Keynes this weekend, Lucy Dodd justified her seeding by making it through to the final.  Having won her two…

Several of our Under 17 juniors travelled to York last weekend for the Yorkshire U17 Silver tournament.  It was a tough event with some strong competition but bronze medals were…