Abersychan BC members Sean Keohane and Scott Saunders had a successful day at the 2011 National Satellite Finals, on Saturday 26th March,at the Flash Leisure Centre, Welshpool. Sean won the U17 singles title, with Scott winning his group but narrowly missing out in the semi-finals. Sean then picked up his second title, when with his club partner, Scott, they took the U17 doubles title. A very successful day for the two young players, congratulations to both.
Signed Lee Chong Wei T-shirt Raffle
Lee Chong Wei, World number 1 and winner of the All England Men’s Singles Championships 2011, has donated a signed shirt.
Gwent Youth Badminton is raffling the shirt to raise funds for the club.
The raffle is for Gwent Senior and Junior clubs and tickets can be bought from Matt Haynes at 50p per ticket or 5 for £2.
If your interested let me know on 07872969061 and i can get to your club.
Gwent youngsters help Welsh badminton team to victory
Gwent’s youth badminton talent helped propel Wales to a great performance in the Under 13 Celtic Challenge, which was held in the Welsh Institute of Sport in Cardiff.
A supurb opening victory against Scotland’s Lothian region by a 13-2 scoreline was followed by another fine victory against the Irish region of Leinster with a similarly impressive 11-4 result.
This set up a nailbiting final match against pre tournament favourites Ulster.
After an exciting and tenacious contest, Wales emerged with a tremendous 11-4 victory retaining the trophy won the previous year in Dublin.
Well Done to the 4 players included, Kelly Saunders, Morgan Williams, Katie Whiteman and Tomas Whiteman
UKCC Level 2
Abersychan Badminton Club would like to congratulate Chris Killick on gaining his UKCC Level 2 coaching certificate. Chris has followed his doubles partner, Matt Haynes and becomes the second member of our club to successfully achieve level 2 this season.
League tables up and running
The league tables feature of this website is now up and running with all the scores from the first months matches. The pages show the league table and a list of upcoming matches and past matches with their scores.
Winning teams gain 4 points plus 1 point for each game won.
New Junior Club
PD badminton club (Ystrad Mynach) have established a Junior club in 2010, which runs at the same time as the senior club on a Monday evening from 7-9pm
The Junior club is very well attended, regularly attracting up to 25 players per session.
Our club coach ‘Nick Gunning‘ holds a UKCC Level 2 coaching award, and welcomes any new junior players to the club.
Cost per session is £1.50
New players are encouraged to contact Nick Gunning (nick.gunning@talktalk.net) or Vaughn Tovey (restrings@gmail.com) prior to attending for the first time.
Coaching Success
Everyone at Abersychan Badminton club would like to congratulate our men’s Captain, MATTHEW HAYNES, on successfully completing his UK Coaching Certificate Level 2.
New website introduced to clubs
The Gwent Badminton 2010 fixtures meeting was held last night and I used the opportunity to introduce the new website to the clubs. From what I heard the general consensus was positive. Each club has access to the site to update their page when necessary and post news articles relevant to their club.
I also spoke to Pauline (fixtures secretary) about implementing the new league tables pages. We intend to have a meeting in early October and the tables should hopefully be updated on a regular basis from then on.
Looking forward to the new season at Newport Badminton Club
With the fixtures meeting happening tomorrow, the new 2010-2011 Gwent Badminton Season is not far away.
Here at Newport Badminton Club we are pleased to be entering 2 Mens teams, 1 Ladies team and 1 Mixed team into theGwent Badminton leagues this year.
Our Mixed A team won the 2nd division last year, however after losing a few ladies over the summer break, we are unable to field a Mixed B team even though we have a wealth of men. Hopefully we will find a few more ladies during the year and return with B team next year. The Ladies team unfortunately came bottom of division 1 last year, but not through any lack of effort.
Our Mens A team once again came 2nd in division 2 beating the eventual division winners along the way and hope for better fortune this year. The Mens B team also came 2nd (in division 3) narrowly missing out on promotion due to some defeats early on in the season.
The cup competition was a little disappointing as we lost to Oakdale in the second round.
Find out more about Newport badminton club.
2010 Fixtures Meeting
The fixtures meeting arranges dates and times for the upcoming season’s league and cup matches.
This years fixtures meeting is on Wednesday the 8th September at 7.30pm in the Ashbridge. I look forward to seeing you all there.