Northumberland Badminton Association
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Northumberland Badminton Association
3M ago
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 in England and two former winners in Dinuka Karunaratne (2022) and Jamie Pearcey (2023).
The highlight for the locals was the mixed doubles where Northumberland’s top pairing of Josh Young and Lucy Dodd, the latter recently crowned U17 National Mixed Champion, retained th ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
4M ago
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!!!  ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
5M ago
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 ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
5M ago
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 Men’s Doubles.
Will has won numerous awards, medals and trophies both in the UK and abroad since his teenage years, and he carried the Olympic Torch in 2012. He has twice been the UK Para badminton Men’s Doubles champion, and hopes to achieve further success in Gla ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
5M ago
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 Men’s Doubles.
Will has won numerous awards, medals and trophies both in the UK and abroad since his teenage years, and he carried the Olympic Torch in 2012. He has twice been the UK Para badminton Men’s Doubles champion, and hopes to achieve further success in Gl ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
6M ago
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 on Tuesday and Friday evenings, and volunteer helpers from North Tyneside Badminton Partnership.
Jessica Dyson was a well deserved double champion, winning both the Ladies Doubles and Mixed Doubles events. It was good to see regular competitors Mark Henderson and Simon Ent ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
7M ago
Results from the Junior Restricted held at Tyneside Badminton Centre last weekend. The winners of the U13/U15/U17/U19 events are listed below.
U13
Girls Singles – Ellie Cockett
Open Singles – Aniruddh Kalluri
Girls Doubles – No event played
Open Doubles – Daniel Choy / Aniruddh Kalluri
Mixed Doubles – Aniruddh Kalluri / Ellie Cockett
U15
Girls Singles – Sophie Cockett
Open Singles – Sophie Cockett
Girls Doubles – Sophie Cockett / Ellen Hunter
Open Doubles – Charlie Sandeman / Jonathan Tosh
Mixed Doubles – Aryan Kalluri / Sophie Cockett
U17
Girls Singles – Lucy Dodd
Open Singles – L ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
7M ago
After 75 years of involvement in badminton, Bob Pearson has decided the time is right to retire from his post as NBA President. He served for very many years on the NBA Management Committee as well as on Badminton England Committees. As a gesture of thanks from NBA, Bob and his wife Lily were treated to an afternoon tea at Eshott Hall, which they both thoroughly enjoyed.
At the Northumberland Badminton Association AGM on Sunday 17th September, the following message from Bob was read out:
I was so looking forward to being at the AGM on Sunday and meeting up with members of the Manag ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
1y ago
Congratulations to Northumberland’s Lucy Dodd who has been picked as 1 of 5 girls to play for England in the U17 European Championships in Lithuania this summer. The Championships are running from 4 – 12 August with a team competition followed by individual events.
Good Luck Lucy ..read more
Northumberland Badminton Association
1y ago
At this years Northumberland Badminton presentation evening as well as trophies being presented to all the league team winners 3 very worthy winners of the volunteer awards were announced.
Thankyou to Ian Little and Yehlex for their sponsorship once again of these awards.
Winners were. Mike Waterfield for over 36 years service to Northumberland Badminton Association and work in North Tyneside.
Lesley Gordon for 40+ years service as Treasurer for Elmfield
and Dennis Gray, chairman of the Association for over 32 years service to Tyne and Wear Schools and then Northumberland Badminton Assoc ..read more