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This
website, compiled by Herts Badminton Association (HBA), provides information
about badminton in Hertfordshire UK for all ages and abilities,
whether beginner or international.
Please send succinct information,
preferably with a photo - to the website compiler and manager: Dave
Bartlett and/or HBA Newsletter Editor Gill
Bartlett. But please also note that we, like all HBA and HSBA committee
members, are volunteers so while we'll try our best there is no 100% guarantee of
publication.
The
information is in some 19 sections - click the underlined titles,
below. Imminent events are listed bottom right of this page
under 'Dates for Your Diary'. You may also search the
site:
Clubs:
Senior
clubs Junior Clubs
Clubs with vacancies
Club Organisers,
County
Officers and SSP's page
Coaching
Coaches Page
Coaches Needed
Committees
and contacts:
HBA Committee HSBA Committee
Badminton Herts Development Committee
Glossary of terms
and Acronyms
HBA
Membership & Benefits
Herts'
Leagues County
League Results
Hertford
Area League
Letchworth and District League SWH
League Results 2006-7
Senior
InterCounty League
Herts Men's
singles Pyramid
Tournament
Herts'
History Herts Hall of Fame
HSBA website
Job
Vacancies -
advertise here
Junior:
Junior League & Results Junior Tournaments, Trials, Results
Schools
Shires
League
News
Newsletters:
HBA
Newsletter
(pdf
v7&above) March08
~500Kb
HSBA Newsletter(pdf
v7&above)
June08
~500Kb
Sports Centres
Venues
with vacancies
External
links:
Herts
Sports Partnership BADMINTON
England website
Olympics News update
BBC
Badminton Olympics pages
Badminton
information and discussion at Badders.com
Hertordshire
Ready for Winners 2012
Sport
England Policy Tracker
The
Prime Ministers speech
at Sports College, 1st Feb
'From
Beijing to Bedford' the impact of the Olympics
in
our Region, an interview with Lord Coe and
Gail
Emms.
Site updated:
July 2008
Tom
Burton, Badminton Herts Development Officer, has moved on and until a
replacement is found, please:
For Development matters Email: Dave
Bartlett
For Coaching matters email Brian
Jackson.
Newsletters:
HBA Newsletter was posted to all HBA members and is available here, but in ,
as an (approx 600Kb) downloadable PDF file (needs v7 Adobe or above).
Word2000
version.
Herts Schools BA
Newsletter as a (approx. 500Kb) PDF
PDF files need the (free) Acrobat
Reader,
download
here if you haven't got one.
Vendors providing Discounts to HBA members - several new. Give them a try!
Hertford
Area League
Results
Contact
HBA Committee Members
Location
of Herts Sports Village
Membership
of Herts BA!
If
you are interested in seeing the benefits you get for joining click here.
Co-ordinating
body for sport in Herts: Herts
Sports Partnership
HSP is the umbrella organisation for sport
in Hertfordshire. It represents grass roots sport, clubs, coaches, colleges,
sports centres, teachers, etc. There are 4 meetings of the main group each
year with several working groups. It is entirely democratic with one
member one vote. Your club would be most welcome.
On the website is a mass of information and courses (e.g. for
coaches and clubs).
BADMINTON
England HQ is in Bradwell Rd., Milton Keynes MK8 9LA. Click here for
a Map
See our Herts annual development achievements
reviews: for: 04-5, 03-4
02-3, 01 - 2 and earlier.
Herts Badminton
Association Membership continues to climb year on year
For more details contact
Dave-HBA@Bartlett1.Plus.com
What
developments are there in my District? Click on District on map below to
go to the reports on the
Club Organisers and County Officers page:
County-wide
development reports on
Club Organisers and County Officers
page
New
Scoring and Laws - Badminton England information. Go to
Club Organisers and County Officers
page (button top left).
The
decisions by Herts' leagues for 2007- 8 are:
New
Scoring: Herts Schools BA (and all junior clubs), Intercounty senior and junior squads,
leagues and tournaments, HBA
Open and Restricted Tournaments, Herts County League, Hertford Area League, Letchworth & District
BL, South West Herts IBL, Stevenage League.
Old
scoring: Biggleswade & District.
Herts
County League Results Are On-Line! Herts
County League Results from 2006-7 onwards are able to be updated on-line by
clubs that Register their membership on-line with Badminton England
- go to County League
Results page (see link top left). Each year the results will be archived
so those interested in performance statistics will be able to compare
years!
Some photos of fit Herts
(and other) players
Recent National News affecting
Badminton
SPORT AND YOUNG PEOPLE (from SE Weekly Policy Tracker)
£31 million funding scheme for Third Sector organisations
The Department for Children,
Schools and Families has announced a £31 million funding scheme to help over
100 third sector organisations working with young people. The grants are
designed to deal with issues such as teenage pregnancy, bullying and youth
participation. Examples of the grants include a £33,000
funding boost to Badminton
England
to help create sporting opportunities for disabled children, £780,000
for Clubs for Young People and £240,000 to Community Matters.
Herts 1st Team Intercounty
Match, December 07, photos: click to view on Flickr site
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Herts’
Gail Emms off to Beijing
Click
on photo for a larger copy
BBC TV Interview 24th
July
Gail Emms who was coached by local coach Bill Goode for
eight years, six of them at the Goode Academy at the University of
Hertfordshire, has been picked to represent England at the Beijing
Olympics. Gail, who is ranked No.6 in the world for mixed doubles,
will play mixed and women’s doubles. She also plays regularly for Herts
County 1st Team that gained promotion to the BADMINTON England
Premier A division this season.
Other achievements include;
Olympic
Silver Medal MXD 2004, winning China Open MXD 2005 and All England Open
MXD 2005, Commonwealth Gold MXD 2006, World Champion Madrid 2006
See
detailed CV on BE website:
http://www.badmintonengland.co.uk/text.asp?section=000100010002001700010004
See BBC Gail's Olympic Run-up Blog:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A36304193
Olympic
badminton matches start 10th August.
Malcolm Jellows, Herts
New Development Officer, is Welcomed at HSBA AGM - His First
Official Event
Malcolm
Jellows started employment with BADMINTON England as Herts new Badminton
Development Officer, on 16th June (email: malcolmjellows@badmintonengland.co.uk,
Mo: 07725
413547). He attended HSBA AGM on
19th June
at Birchwood Leisure Centre, Hatfield, and got a warm welcome - and a very
good introduction to the workings of this our junior-focused organisation.
As well as the comprehensive officers' reports, examples of dedicated
voluntary work for junior badminton in the county were very evident.
Byron
Perry (L) and Malcolm Lumb (R) receiving thank you presents from HSBA
Chairman, Ken Winchester.
Byron Perry
has completed some 30 or more years in various
official capacities particularly the coaching of Gazelles JBC which is now
wound up and Malcolm
Lumb who completes some 12 years as HSBA Treasurer.
Rhian
Blowers, Young Coach of the Year, receiving the shield from HSBA Chairman
Ken Winchester. Proposers, Marion and Duncan Conway, wrote: 'She
has been a regular attender at both Under 13 Squad practices (2 hours per
week) and at Swifts JBC (2 hours per week).
However at Swifts she has often stayed on for the rest of the
evening ( a further 2-3 hours). She has regularly led group practices with
considerable enthusiasm and inspires the players to perform beyond their
normal standard.
Primary Teachers
Coaching Course - a Great mix of Teachers and Herts Coaches
19th
June saw 5 Primary school teachers and 5 coaches attend the 7-hour BE
Teachers Coaching Course, Primary, lead by tutor, Sue Rutson at Hatfield's Jim McDonald
Centre. The mix of teachers and coaches
provided some very useful cross-fertilisation of ideas.
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Participants
at Badminton for Teachers Primary course, Hatfield: tutor, Sue Rutson,
centre of front row. Click on photo for a larger copy.
Rhian
Blowers, far L., and Steve Willis, far R., provided some excellent
examples of correct stroke movement - click here
for photos of some of the stroke moves.
Herts 45+ Games,18th
June at Herts Sports Village
Some
30 badminton players attended the morning taster/coaching session and 16
entered the Social and League tournaments in the afternoon. Jim
Robson and Doug Clark, Level 2 coaches from East Herts were on hand to
give hints and tips in the morning and stayed to help Gill and Dave
Bartlett and Rhian Blowers organise the afternoon tournament.
Social
and League tournaments Medal winners with HSP organiser Fiona Deans (2ndR
FR) :
click
on photo for a larger copy
It
was an excellent first 45+ Games Badminton Tournament sponsored by Herts
Sports Partnership and organised by Fiona Deans. All the better for
being free of charge with lunch included! See more photos
- and a more comprehensive write-up in the next HBA Newsletter, due early
July.
Herts Youth Games 2008
Nine
Districts' teams competed in the badminton event of Herts Youth Games on
Saturday 10th May at Herts Sports Village. Each team event comprised boys'
and girls' singles and doubles and mixed doubles with 108 games in all.
click
on photo for a larger copy
The
sub-county event funded by Sport England, Herts Sports Partnership and
the 10 Herts Districts gave many children their first experience
of a badminton tournament. Click here
for a report and more photos.
Tom
Burton, Our Badminton
Development Officer, Leaves Herts with a Very Significant Legacy
Tom
Burton leaves badminton in Hertfordshire with a tremendous legacy of
worthy development on Friday 2nd May. Not only are our organisations
- Herts Badminton Association, Herts Schools Badminton Association and our
Badminton Herts Development Committee - extremely grateful for the amount
and quality of his work but innumerable grass roots players from the
youngest to the oldest have benefited from the programmes and funding that
he has initiated and progressed. We wish him all the very best in
his new job as Team Leader of Sports Development in St Albans. As he
says "I'm
looking forward to staying in sports development but working from a
different angle".
A replacement BDO is being sought by BADMINTON England and Badminton
Herts.
Senior
County 2nd Team Triumphant!
With
three national league titles to their credit already this season the
senior county 2nd team added the Inter County Championship Division 1
playoff finals at Milton Keynes over the weekend 26th & 27th April. See
full report and detailed results.
With
three wins over Lanarkshire (Scotland), Kent & Wiltshire the team now
move in to Premier B next season.
Full Squad
Ladies – Rachel Howard (Hertford), Charlotte Willis (WGC), Charity
Barnes (Hatfield), Katie Comras (Little Heath), Kate Lester (Letty Green),
Jo Goode (Tewin) & Helena Lewczynska (Radlett)
Men – Jon Austin (Rebourn), David Westwood (Flamstead), Brian
Lockie (Rickmansworth), Jim Teale (Watford), Andy Walden (Hertford), Peter
Gooden (Kimpton) & Richard Southward (St.Albans)
Paul Widdicombe, Chairman of (County Squads) Selectors
See also the Senior County Teams End of Season report:
HSBA Primary Schools Team Tournament,
Sunday 27th April, at Stevenage A&LC
There were 19 boys’ teams and 14 girls’ teams (100 children) taking part in the
tournament.
click
on picture for a larger version
It was good to see some new school teams such as Knebworth, Lordship
Farm (Letchworth), Lodge Farm (Stevenage), Northwood prep, the return after an
absence of St Giles (South Mimms) and Sherrardswood (Welwyn Garden City), plus
old stalwarts who always support us so well Wilbury and Norton St Nicholas
(Letchworth), Little Heath and Lochinver (Potters Bar).
The tournament, preceded by a very successful coaching session, was played in a
round robin format, with placings for boys girls and combined teams. It was played in
excellent spirit and great sportsmanship.
Boys Winners
1. Lochinver Suraj Shah, Archie Preston, Henry Wood
2. (orthwood Prep Rishav Shah, Alastair Parker, Julian Mann
3. St Giles 1 Max Denuiene-Keene, Sean Price, Jake Johnson
Girls Winners
1. St Giles Amy George, Charlotte Hathawy, Faye McNicholas
2. Little Heath Isabel Hatt, Louise Rapacioli, Cydney Reimers
3. Norton St Nicholas 3 Hope Cracunell, Melissa Drake, Ellen King
Combined Winners
1. St Giles Max Denuiene-King, Sean Price, Jake Johnson, Amy George,
Charlotte Hathaway, Faye McNicholas
2. Norton St Nicholas 3 Hope Cracunell, Melissa Drake, Ellen King, Adam
Chilvers, Charlie Hall, Danny Kalket
3. Little Heath Isabel Hatt, Louise Rapacioli, Cydney Reimers, Anrew Bays,
James Ilott, Harrison Palmer
See
the complete report here
Herts
Schools do us Proud in the BE Interschools Regional Round in Bedfordshire
April
10th, the
East region round saw the top schools in each age group from Bedfordshire,
Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire come together to fight it out for the
opportunity to represent the East Region at the National finals to be held
later this month up in Derby.
Boys
Y7/8/9
1st:
Bedford
Modern (Beds)
2nd:
Hitchin
Boys
School
(Herts)
3rd:
Thomas
Deacan
Academy
(Cambs)
Boys
Y10/11
1st:
Haberdashers
Askes
School
for Boys (Herts)
2nd:
Sandy
(Beds)
3rd:
Thomas
Deacan
Academy
(Cambs)
Girls
Y7/8/9
1st:
Chancellors
School
(Herts)
2nd:
Jack Hunt (Cambs)
3rd:
Dame Alice (Beds)
Girls
Y10/11
1st:
Samuel Whitbread (Beds)
2nd:
Dame Alice Owens' School (Herts)
3rd:
Thomas
Deacan
Academy
(Cambs)
Dates for your diary
Herts
County Squads Practice Sessions
Start
5 August at Herts Sports Village
If
you have not already been notified and would like to be considered please email
Herts Chairman of County Selectors, Paul
Widdicombe
Herts
Open Tournament
Supported by Ashaway
A
Tournament in the BADMINTON England Satellite Circuit
Saturday
30th August - Singles
Sunday
31st August - Doubles
at
Herts Sports Village, Hatfield
For
details and an entry form, please click here
Closing
date: 8th August
South
West Herts League Fixtures Meeting
The fixtures meeting will be held on Thursday 4
September
Badminton
Club Zwijndrecht (BEL) invites you to participate:
INTERNATIONAL
TOURNAMENT 13-14 sep 2008
B1
- B2 - C1 - C2 - D
MD
and LD Saturday / MxD sunday / MS en LS Saturday and Sunday
Prize-money
: 2.500 euro
More
info visit http://www.bczwijndrecht.be/tornooi/tornooi_en.htm
http://www.toernooi.nl/sport/tournament.aspx?id=22097
Don't
forget to make your reservation for the BBQ on saturday !!
Coaching
Courses to become a Coach
Level
1: to be rescheduled for October 2008 soon.
Level 2:
the next starts 5th October 2008.
If interested email
County Coaching Co-ordinator Brian
Jackson.
Or
see the Coaching webpage, here.
Discounts
for Coaches
and Club Organisers courses, such as, Child Protection, and Equity, are
organised via Herts
Sports Partnership. Some subsidies are available for clubs
working towards Club Accreditation standards - Premier and Foundation:
contact Dave Bartlett for
information.
The next
L1 and L2 courses are likely in October;
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