Coaching Advancement for Martin and Ellie

Posted on April 14, 2017 by richard.taylor

Congratulations to Martin Fagan and Ellie Roberts who have both moved one step up the coaching ladder.  Martin is now a Level 3 Coach and Ellie was successful at Level 2.  Very well done to both of them.  They are already a great asset to the County and will continue to be so.

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Anglo Scottish Under 15

Posted on March 19, 2017 by richard.taylor

The Anglo-Scottish League event for Under 15s took place this weekend at Tyneside Badminton Centre, with six teams from north and south of the border competing.  Yorkshire brought a strong team and took the honours with their 12-3 win over Lothian in the deciding match.  Northumberland, with a very young and inexperienced team, found the going quite tough but still produced some encouraging performances on the way to finishing in fifth place, just being pipped by Cumbria. Continue reading →

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Ellie just misses out on Volunteer of the Year award

Posted on March 17, 2017 by richard.taylor

A couple of months ago, Ellie Roberts received a “Local Heroes” award from Sport Newcastle for her volunteering work with young badminton players in our county.  She followed this up being nominated as Badminton England’s Young Volunteer of the Year and was a guest at last week’s All England tournament where the award was to be announced.  She was one of three on the shortlist but did not quite make the top spot.  Thanks, Ellie, for all your good work this season.

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Congratulations to Emily!!

Posted on March 17, 2017 by richard.taylor

The Annual Dinner of Sport Newcastle took place recently at the Civic Centre.  It was a big night for the charity – a 50th anniversary celebration – but also for our Emily Harrison who was named as one of this year’s “Rising Stars of Sport”.  Emily has had great success in recent years, winning a number of BE Circuit tournaments or reaching the later stages of several events and this season she has made herself a fixture in the Seniors first team.  This is the first Rising Stars award for one of our junior badminton players for some 12 years and was very well merited.  Well done, Emily – pictured here with her trophy, an engraved clock.

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A Triumphant Day Out for the Under 17s

Posted on March 5, 2017 by richard.taylor

Northumberland’s U17 team has just been down to Sheffield for the second round of the North Midway.  As there was a late team withdrawal from this round, the format of the day was set to be a round robin of six counties.   Manager Lizzie Jerdan’s report follows and documents what turned into a superb achievement for the county’s team. Continue reading →

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North Tyneside Badminton Partnership Adult Social Tournament 19th March 2017

Posted on February 13, 2017 by mike.woodward

Attached is the entry form for the North Tyneside Badminton Partnership Adult Social Badminton Tournament on Sunday 19th March at John Spence Community High School in North Shields. The event is open to any non-league players over the age of 14.

Adult Tourny Entry Form March 2017

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Strong Performances at the U19 Nationals

Posted on February 12, 2017 by richard.taylor
Buoyed by their success in Durham the previous weekend, Emily Harrison and Ashraf Alam skipped a day’s school to compete in the U19 Nationals in Milton Keynes.
Emily was unlucky to draw the 1st seed in her first round singles match, but put in a very robust performance.
After a very good win against Jai Chandarana in his first round match, Ashraf safely negotiated easier opposition in the second round to progress to the last sixteen.  There he faced all six feet something of Leon Griffiths, and spent much of the first end figuring out how to adapt his game.  The second end was close all the way, but Leon just took it 21-19.

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Silverware returns to Northumberland

Posted on February 12, 2017 by richard.taylor
Emily Harrison and Ashraf Alam came home from the Durham U19 Silver tournament on 4th February laden with three trophies between them. Emily partnered with Beth Speechley of Yorkshire, and Ashraf with Niall Wagstaff of Notts to win both Level Doubles competitions before teaming up to take the Mixed Doubles as well.  The latter included a good win over Niall and Beth!  It was great to see several of these trophies coming back to Newcastle for the 2nd year running, with Emily and Ashraf continuing the success of Emily, Philip Pahatouridis and David Murray in 2016.
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Anglo-Scottish Under 13s

Posted on February 10, 2017 by richard.taylor

This tournament, which is often the first team event for our young players, was held last weekend at TBC.  Northumberland’s team, which was relatively inexperienced in comparison to the strong counties of Lothian and Yorkshire, fought hard but found the going tough.  They were also carrying the disadvantage of having to concede matches as the team were short of girls and had to field overage players. Continue reading →

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NBA Super Series 20th, 21st February 2017

Posted on January 31, 2017 by mike.woodward

It’s that time again, we are holding our third NBA Super Series of the season. It will be held over two days of the February half term, Monday 20th February and Tuesday 21st February.

On Monday 20th February will be the:

  • Year 7 and Below
  • Year 10 & Year 11 Event

On Tuesday 21st February will be the:

  • Year 8 & Year 9 Event
  • Year 12 &Year 13 Event

Here are the entry forms for each age group, please can the information be read carefully as the Singles and Doubles events start at different times for different age groups.

Year 7 and Below: (Singles event at 9am, Doubles 1pm)

1)YEAR 7 and below Entry Form_Mon 20th Feb

Year 8 &Year 9: (Singles event at 9am,Doubles 1pm)

2)Year8&9-Entry Form Tuesday 21st Feb

Year 10 & Year 11 (Singles event at 1pm,Doubles 9am)

3)Year10&11-Entry Form Mon 20th Feb

Year 12&Year 13 (Singles event 1 pm, Doubles 9am)

4)Year 12&13-Entry Form_Tuesday 21st Feb

Entries can be made via email, phone or post, the deadline for entries is 5pm Friday 17th February 2017.

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