Northumberland held a big weekend of junior badminton recently with tournaments on the Badminton England circuit across four age groups. (more…)

Several of our juniors were successful in winning medals in our four age group events held over this weekend.  A detailed report will follow later in the week but pride…

There was success for several players from the Northumberland Performance Centre in the recent Tees Valley Under 17 Silver tournament, part of the Badminton England Junior Circuit. Emily Harrison from…

Northumberland’s Under 17 team played its fourth Shires League match against Cheshire’s second team at a neutral venue in Leeds recently. Yet to win a match, we were significantly hampered…

This season’s Under 19 Anglo Scottish team event took place over the new-year weekend at the Tyneside Badminton Centre. There were three teams from north of the border (Lothian, Lanarkshire and West of Scotland), together with Cheshire, Cumbria, Yorkshire and ourselves. At the end of the two days’ play, Yorkshire emerged triumphant to take the trophy with Northumberland finishing sixth. (more…)

The annual Anglo-Scottish team tournament for Under 14s took place just before Christmas.  It is always difficult facing the might of Yorkshire and Lothian but the combined Northumberland & Durham team performed very creditably, scoring two good wins and finishing fourth overall.  The team was managed by Andrea Bogan and Ian Bambrick: many thanks to them and also to Julie Brown and Foong Tham who organised the whole event.  The combined report from Andrea and Ian follows: (more…)

The much-delayed "Presentation Evening" for our juniors for season 2014/15 finally took place just before Christmas at the Badminton Centre.  The perpetual trophies for that season's junior restricted championships were…

Congratulations to Ashraf Alam for producing a superb performance in the recent Under 17 Gold held at York.  Playing in much the tightest of the eight groups, where all matches…

The first of our two Under 13 Bronze events on BE's Junior Circuit was held recently.  The entry was a little disappointing in terms of numbers but still produced some…

The Under 15s postponed match against Cumbria took place on a miserable and snowy day.  Very many thanks to Ian Bambrick, Jack Xu and the Alams for braving the weather to take the team over to Penrith: the weather was probably worse than on the originally-planned day.  Thanks also to Ian, who managed the team for the first time and whose report follows. (more…)