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It was another good weekend for Alfie Martin who came runner up in the singles and claimed bronze with Charlie Junnor in the open doubles at the recent U15 Gold in Milton Keynes! Shout out to Tushara Senthilrajaram who competed in mixed and girls singles – especially on winning her [...]

By RJ Mitchell ELEANOR O’DONNELL believes that team spirit can prove crucial to the Scottish Women’s Team’s hopes of glory at this week’s European Team Championships in Łódź, Poland (from 14-18 Feb). The recently retired Scotland international was part of our bronze medal winning side in Liévin, France, four years back [...]

By Hugh Ainsley 23 players from the 2011 and younger age group gathered at a freezing Wishaw Sports Centre (the heating has broken down) on Saturday 10 February for the latest SSBU event. To add to the misery of the cold temperature, two courts were out of action due to [...]

By Gordon Smith Round up for 4 February 2024. It was an exciting weekend in the T Duncan & Co Gents leagues as the top 2 went head to head in two of the Divisions. In Division 1, both NCR and Nomads went into the top of the table clash [...]

This Thursday 8th February, the U18 Junior National Squad Select were faced up against the British Police in a team match held at Scotstoun Badminton Academy. This presented a fantastic opportunity to compete in a team setting and allowed the coaches to provide junior players with in-competition feedback against experienced [...]

Badminton Scotland are excited to launch our dedicated ‘Introduction to LGBTIQ+ Inclusion’ e-learning course on the sportscotland Brightspace platform.   In November 2023, Badminton Scotland joined the National LGBTI Sports Group chaired by LEAP Sports. This set in place our commitment to working more closely with LEAP Sports as a [...]

Fresh investment for Scotland’s national sports scholarship programme with launch of Winning Students 100 Following a new injection of funding from sportscotland and the Scottish Funding Council, Scotland’s national sports scholarship programme for talented student athletes has relaunched as Winning Students 100. Helping student athletes balance their studies with high performance [...]

By RJ Mitchell INGO KINDERVATER believes the 2024 Scottish Nationals have provided concrete proof of the young talent surging through the Badminton Scotland system and is now making its presence firmly felt in the senior game. Following an outstanding weekend of action at the National Badminton Academy, Scotstoun, our Head [...]

By Lanarkshire Badminton When and how did you first get involved in badminton? Got involved in Dalziel High School at the school club in 3rd Year (around 1966) and played through to 6th Year. Meanwhile in 1969 I joined Classon Badminton Club in Motherwell which was an active church club [...]

Shout out to Alfie Martin and Calum Tsang who competed at the recent Spanish Open U15 Well done to Alfie who reached the semi final and received a bronze medal) at the recent Spanish Open

Badminton is the 2nd biggest participation sport in the world and we are looking for the right person to join our team to develop innovative engagement strategies to connect up the sport and showcase our growing community and world class players. It is an exciting time to get involved in [...]

By RJ Mitchell BADMINTON SCOTLAND president Carolyn Young has shared her delight at a weekend of memorable badminton following the completion of the 2024 Scottish National Championships at Scotstoun. 103 entrants battled it out across all five disciplines, in which some of the most established stars in Scottish badminton found [...]