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

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:

• Hitesh Shah (0208 907 7790, e-mail: shah_hitesh@sky.com),
• John Stobo (01707 332665, e-mail: j.r.stobo@btinternet.com)

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.