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St George’s School & Badminton Scotland Partnership Serves Up Unique Girls’ and Women’s Badminton Opportunities We are delighted to announce our new partnership! Over the course of our first year in partnership together we are planning some exciting opportunities to get involved around International Women’s Day in 2024. This will […]

By Craig Robertson In November 2022, a request went out for volunteers to join a think tank to improve masters’ badminton in Scotland, followed by a post about forming a group to work on taking a masters’ team abroad. Volunteers met a few times to understand the main issues, find […]

By Grania Shankley From 24-26 November, Badminton Scotland hosted the UK Para Badminton Championships 2023 for the first time at Tollcross International Swimming and Leisure Centre. The tournament brought together 65+ Physical Disability (PD) and Learning Disability (LD) athletes over three days to play in over 30 events. For some […]

Well done to Ishbel McCallister & Brooke Stalker who reached the final of the Women’s Doubles in Trencin, Slovakia following a three set thriller against Croatia’s Ivanovicova/Vybochova in the semi final. Ishbel and Brooke faced LEE Pin Yi/TPELIAO Jui-Chi in the final but the Chinese Taipei pair carried the edge […]

By Craig Robertson The Swedish Youth Games took place in Malmo from 16th – 19th November with the u13/15 Team and Individual event and also the U17 Badminton Europe Circuit event.  Players competed in the 20-court Malmo Badminton Centre over the three days in an event that attracted players from […]

By RJ Mitchell RACHEL ANDREW is determined to use this week’s Yonex Welsh International challenge to end 2023 on a Mixed Doubles high. The Scotland international and sidekick Adam Pringle had a hugely impressive run to the semi-finals of the Victor FZ Forza Hungarian International Championships earlier in the month. […]

By Grania Shankley When participating in any sport there are many barriers to overcome, challenges to face and situations that can put people out of their comfort zones. Talking about and understanding these barriers is important so that everyone can feel included, seen and heard and participate with confidence. We […]

By RJ Mitchell MATTHEW WARING has admitted that 2023 will always be a year to remember for him. The Lanarkshire Lad started off by making the final of the Scottish Men’s singles championship where he lost out to defending champion Callum Smith while only a 16-year-old. Then after joining up […]

By Hugh Ainsley With Wishaw being unavailable SSBU moved to Penicuik for the 2006 Age Group event on 24th November. There were 21 players but plenty of close matches with a large number of games taking 3 sets to complete. The boys singles had 12 entries. The pools finished fairly […]

Huge well done to winners of the Senior Inter Group, LOTHIAN! After a full day of match action, Lothian Badminton win the Inter Group after beating Lanarkshire 5-4 in the final. Amazing team effort from all players today and a big thank you to all volunteers who helped the event […]

Bruce Flockhart attended the recent Swedish Youth Games in Malmo – his first trip with players as the National Junior Squad (NJS) lead coach and a return to a venue where he played his first international event when he was 14! We caught up with Bruce plus a few of […]

Get involved in SEMSA’s annual badminton tournament – it’s a great way to put your practice to test and even win medals! There is the option to sign up for beginner/intermediate) plus choose ‘playing partner required’ if you’re looking to team up with someone – who knows you might just […]