This season's junior restricteds will be held as follows: Under 15 and Under 19 on Saturday 18th November Under 13 and Under 17 on Saturday 2nd December They will be…

Can anyone remember when Northumberland finished the first day of an Anglo-Scottish tournament undefeated?  Well, we managed that a week ago in the Under 20s event. The team was: Anna…

A sizeable contingent of our juniors travelled down to Thornaby recently and came back with several medals of all three colours. (more…)

TRIPLE GOLD FOR NORTHUMBERLAND GIRLS

The first of Northumberland’s BE Junior Circuit tournaments were held at the Tyneside Badminton Centre on Saturday 21^st and brought considerable success for the County’s juniors.  Pride of place must go to Rachel Bogan and Lucy Dodd who both took a clean sweep of the gold medals across all three disciplines. (more…)

A full report will follow (when time permits) ........... but our Under 20 AS team deserve great credit for a super performance this weekend.  Starting off with a 14-1 win…

This year’s Shires League has been split into two parts, with some of the stronger counties playing their second teams in a “Satellite” League: we have elected to play our Under 16 (and Under 14) teams in this, where we will face Cheshire and Derbyshire twice each.  Given the distances involved, the matches will be played at neutral venues.  Andrea Bogan is managing the team and she took them down to Garforth for their first match against Cheshire.  This is her report on the match. (more…)

The first event in the new season’s Anglo-Scottish team tournaments took place this weekend.  We are extremely grateful to Lizzie and Mark Jerdan for looking after the team but also for producing this very prompt and comprehensive report. (more…)

In 2003, while he was Chair of North Tyneside Council, Councillor John Carter became an avid fan of badminton, attending a number of events which were staged in North Tyneside. …

Many of our juniors and ex-juniors will have lovely memories from earlier years of the weekend spent at Largs in late May.  This has not happened for the last couple of years, while extensive works were carried out at the site, but it was back to Largs again for the Under 13 Anglo-Scottish team event over the last weekend of May.  This is team manager Karen Davison’s report on a great weekend. (more…)

Northumberland’s Under 14 team travelled north of the border on Easter Sunday to play in the annual Lothian team event.  The team, most of whom were at least one year younger than the U14 limit, was: Charlotte Graham, Ellen Davison, Lucy Dodd and Katrina Ho; Hugh Twelves, Jack Tilbury, James Dodd and Matthew Short.  Team managers Karen Davison and David Graham sent us the following report.

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