Welcome to the Cambridgeshire Badminton Association (Cambs BA), a County association affiliated to Badminton England.
Cambridgeshire Badminton Association is dedicated to the development and promotion of badminton throughout the whole of Cambridgeshire. The county consists of around 30 affiliated clubs as well as hosting Junior, Senior and Masters teams playing in the Inter-County Championships.
This web site is designed to enable Cambridgeshire Badminton Association to promote badminton through providing news and information on local, County and national badminton. Please visit this web site regularly to keep abreast of all the latest developments.
If you're a budding U11 or U13 badminton player, there's another upcoming Fun Tournament at Burwell on 22nd September from 1pm.
You do not necessarily need to be in a club already to play in a fun tournament. If you want to give the sport a try, or have played at school and enjoyed it, this is a great introduction to a little competition.
For more details see the entry form. There should be some really fun badminton for lots of potential badminton stars!
Announcing a beginners / improvers badminton course being run at Netherhall Sports Centre. The course is a 6 week coached course for adults (16+) of beginner and improver level in badminton.
It starts from the 1st August every Wednesday for 6 weeks 6-7:30pm at Netherhall School Sport Centre. Rackets are available to borrow. The sessions will be fun and sociable allowing people to improve their fitness as well as learn more about playing badminton.
Please contact Di Thomas on 07824 437 107, dithomas@badmintonengland.co.uk or Sarah from Netherhall SC on: 01223 712 142.
For more information download the poster.
Cambridgeshire Badminton wishes the GB Badminton squad all the best for the London Olympics.
You can send them your own message at www.badmintonengland.co.uk/goodluck
Tuesday 14th August 2012, Wednesday 15th August 2012
At: Kesteven and Grantham Girls’ School. Sandon Road, Grantham NG31 9AU
For more details see the information poster.
There are new Level 1 and Level 2 coaching courses available in or near Cambridgeshire in the upcoming months:
UKCC L1 Coaching Course: Suffolk New College Sports Centre, Ipswich. IP4 1LT. Dates: 9th June, 10th June and 1st July.
UKCC L2 Coaching Course: Bushfields Leisure Centre, Orton Centre, Peterborough. PE2 5RQ. Dates: 30th June, 1st July, 12th August, 2nd September.
To register for these courses or to find out other dates of courses in the Region / across the country, please go to:
http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/text.asp?section=1050§ionTitle=Find+a+Course
Application forms and payment to be sent to the Coaching Team, BADMINTON England, National Badminton Centre, Milton Keynes, MK8 9LA or coaching@badmintonengland.co.uk.
Thursday is the County AGM. It is at 7.30pm at Comberton Village College. Come to the sports centre and it will be signposted. Come along - hear what the committee have been up to and have your say. This is the meeting which determines the direction of the County - Junior development, senior leagues and County squads, and anything else relating to badminton. The more people who participate, the more will get done and more people will feel represented.
Despite not fielding a Shires team in the age category this season, Cambridgeshire fielded an U11 team for a friendly match against Northants (away) on Sunday 29th April. In an outstanding display of commitment, good nature and ability, Cambs won an absolutely corking overall 49-5 victory against the home team!
The match was won so quickly and so convincingly (25-2) that the home team asked Cambs players to replay the whole match again (to use the courts that had been booked) which was won 24-3, thus giving the overall score of 49-5! Only singles and level doubles were played in this match. Few games went to three ends and many games were won in single figures.
The team was made up of players as young as 8yrs old (Callum Stokes) right up to his brother Eugene who is ranked 15 in the country in the U11 age group. The other team members were Cameron Foo, Harry Zhao, Peter Du, Alexander Harding, Hannah Lin, Megan Johnson, Rachel Owen, Chanumi Gamage and Sophia Abbott.
The future of junior badminton in Cambs is looking very hopeful indeed with this sort of start to our youngsters' badminton careers. Well done all those players who took part!
