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U15 County Squad

Welcome

The U15 squad managers would like to welcome all the players selected for the squad for the 2009/2010 season. We are looking forward to the new season.

Squad Facts

Players born in 1995 and 1996 are eligible for the U15 squad. Trials for the squad were held in June 2009, and we selected 28 players:

Boys: Conor Bambrick, William Belfield, Edward Byrne, Lyall Daniels, Rishi Dattani, George Dobson, Thomas Latter, George Lucas, David Maughan, Mark Sadler, Rishav Shah, Casper Sui, James Sweetnam, Hugo Weaver, Oliver White, Matthew Widdicombe

Girls: Cayleigh Bambrick, Chloe Bungey, Anna Collis, Alex English, Philippa English, Libby Jennings, Hannah McLaren, Laura Monk, Georgia Pittson, Kirsty Southey, Pui Yi Tam, Ying Cen Tee

Among these several already had a national grading at the start of the 2009/10 season:

  • Grade 1: Conor Bambrick, Anna Collis, Mark Sadler
  • Grade 2: Lyall Daniels, Alex English, David Maughan, Mathew Widdicombe,
  • Grade 3: Cayleigh Bambrick, Philippa English, Georgia Pittson, James Sweetnam, Oliver White


Under 15 Squad members 2009/2010

Under 15 Squad members 2009/2010



The squad meets for training on Monday evenings from 6.00 – 8.00pm in the following weeks:

  • 7 September – 19 October (7 weeks)
  • 2 November – 14 December (7 weeks)
  • 4 January 2010 – 8 February (6 weeks)
  • 22 February – 29 March (6 weeks)

We hope to arrange some extra sessions on Monday evenings after Easter 2010 for squad players born in 1996.

The training sessions are held at:

St. Albans High School for Girls, Townsend Avenue, St. Albans, AL1 3SJ

COACHING

The squad is managed and coaching is provided at the training sessions by two coaches, qualified with Badminton England Certificates:

Tournaments

Tournament play, underpinned by regular high quality training, is the most effective way to improve as a player, developing your own skills and learning from other successful players. So we encourage members of the squad to compete regularly in these events.

All squad players should compete in the HSBA tournaments at Stevenage Leisure Centre at their own age group and, ideally, for an extra challenge, in some of the older age group events as well. For details about the tournaments please click on the Tournaments menu button or here. To download entry forms please click on the Downloads menu button or here.

We also expect squad members to play at least 3 Badminton England tournaments during the season, though more ambitious players will play many more. Performances in these tournaments count towards gradings in the national ranking system. Entry forms are available from the Badminton England website. Click here to go to the BE download page.

Please keep us up to date with your results at these tournaments.

There are also a number of tournaments for which we are often invited to nominate Hertfordshire players, including:

  • U16 Easter Region – Sunday 22 November 2009
  • U14 Eastern Region – Saturday 12 December 2009
  • Avon Doubles – Saturday 23 January 2010
  • Kathy Wood U14 Doubles – Saturday 31 January 2010
  • Eastern Region single sex tournament – 17 April 2010
  • Yorkshire U14 – 1 May 2010

Fixtures

We play inter-county matches as follows;

  • Badminton England Team Challenge (One day event in East Anglia in November, top two teams qualify for national finals day in March)
  • Shires League (season long competition, with a national play-off finals day in April)
  • Friendlies (arranged as the calendar permits)

Selection for matches will be on merit, but we also try to give all squad members opportunities to develop by playing competitively for Hertfordshire.

Day
Date
Team
Type
H/A
Event
Result/
Time
Venue
Sat 19/09/09 U15 SL Away Middlesex (SL) W 11-09 Dome
Sat 03/10/09 U15 SL Away Kent (SL) W 18-02 Tonbridge, Kent
Sat 11/10/09 U15 SL Home Bedfordshire (SL) W 20-00 HSV (Hatfield)
Sun 25/10/09 U15 HSBA Tnt Home HSBA U-15 B Singles See Tnt Page Stevenage Leisure Centre
Sun 08/11/09 U15 HSBA Tnt Home HSBA U15 Doubles See Tnt Page Stevenage Leisure Centre
Sun 08/11/09 U15 HSBA Tnt Home HSBA U15 Mixed Doubles See Tnt Page Stevenage Leisure Centre
Sat 14/11/09 U15 Friendly Away Surrey 14:00 Epsom, Surrey
Sat 21/11/09 U15 Team Challenge Away Team Challenge Heat 09:00 Brandon
Sun 22/11/09 U16 Team Tnt Away U16 Eastern Region 09:00 Mark Hall SC, Essex
Sat 12/12/09 U14 Team Tnt Away U14 Eastern Region   TBA
Fri 18/12/09 All Social n/a Squad bowling night 17:00 Stevenage
Sun 03/01/10 U15 SL Away Essex 12:00 Mark Hall SC, Essex
Sat 23/01/10 U15 Tnt Away Avon Doubles 10:00 Bristol
Sun 24/01/10 U15 HSBA Tnt Home HSBA U15 Singles A 09:30 Stevenage leisure Centre
Sat 31/01/10 U14 Invitation Tnt Away Kathy Wood U14 Doubles 09:00 Stroud
Sat 27/02/10 U15 Team Challenge Away Team Challenge Finals 09:00 HSV (Hatfield)
Sat - Sun 06/03/10 - 07/03/10 U15 BE Tnt n/a U15 Nationals n/a HSV (Hatfield)
Sun 17/04/10 U15 Team Tnt Away Single Sex East Region 09:30 Luton
Sun 25/04/10 U15 SL TBA Shires (Group C/E & F)   TBA
Sun 09/05/10 U15 SL TBA Shires (Play to be in Finals)   TBA
Sun 23/05/10 U15 SL Away Shire League Finals   Babington, Leicester

Shires League results are displayed below. For more information please visit www.shiresbadminton.co.uk.



Last Updated: Tues 6th Oct 2009