The second North Tyneside Social Badminton tournament of the season took place recently in the sports hall at John Spence Community High School, North Shields. It attracted 40 players, some of whom travelled from Morpeth and south of the River Tyne to take part. The tournament was once again organised and run by the excellent […]
GIRLS The County round of the girls competition was held at Tyneside Badminton Centre. 9 teams took part in the KS3 Girls and 8 in the KS4 Girls. Results below – KS3 Event KS4 Event RGS won both KS3 and KS4 events; they progressed to the Regional round at Thornaby on 19th March, playing the […]
The 17-21 English County Challenge (ECC) took part the weekend of 6th & 7th of April at York RI. Northumberland entered a team into this event which consisted of players not eligible to play at ICT. So we were able to call on former junior players and a couple of players who now are students […]
Team Northumberland travelled to Nottingham University to compete in the ICT event. Team consisted of: Lucy Dodd/Sophie Cockett/Chalida Prapunwong/Tanida Prapunwong/Jasmine Osborn Ryan Cockett/Matthew Jefferson/Adam Secker/Stephen Glennie/Matthew Duffy Manager/Coaching Support: Martin Fagan/Karen Davison Team Support: Alison Thompson Results below: Thursday Cheshire – Won 8-2; Cornwall – Won 8-2 Friday Kent – Lost 8-2; Essex – Lost […]
The annual Northumberland Championships, part of the Badminton England Senior Gold Circuit, saw some 80 of the best players on the circuit congregate at the Tyneside Badminton Centre, with 41 entries in the Open Singles the most for some time. The strong Open Singles field featured 8 ‘A’ graded players, 4 of the top 20 […]
Parabadminton star Will Smith, who recently won medals competing in Europe, picked up more medals at the recent UK National Parabadminton Championships. He took the Men’s Doubles title for the third time, and also was runner-up in both the Men’s Singles and Mixed Doubles. Well done Will!!!
Congratulations to Northumberland’s Lucy Dodd who today became U17 mixed doubles national champion with Dan Kemp from Cumbria. Lucy was also runner up in the girls doubles with Grace Sachdeva from Yorkshire only losing out 21-19 in the third set. Dan was also boys doubles champion. Well done Lucy.
Northumberland’s Para badminton star Will Smith, who is a member of St Gabriels BC, recently travelled to Rotterdam, where he took part in the Para European Games, a multi-sport event. Badminton was one of the featured sports. Will had a very successful trip, winning a bronze medal in Men’s Singles and a silver medal in […]
The first North Tyneside Social Badminton tournament of the season took place recently in the sports hall at John Spence Community High School, North Shields. It attracted 41 players, with ages ranging from 16 up to 79!! The tournament was organised and run by volunteers from Bewicke BC, which plays in the school sports hall […]