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By Lanarkshire Badminton We recently spoke to Jill Smith, Director of Coaching at Badminton Academy Social Enterprise (BASE) and Group Convenor at Lanarkshire Badminton Group who helped organise another successful Demo Night with Kirsty Gilmour, BASE’s Managing Director, Danny Robson (former Senior National Squad player) and Erin McIlvaney who took […]

A huge congratulations to our U15s who finished in 2nd place at Bangor University Sport in Wales at the weekend! You’ve done us proud! What a great experience for everyone involved. Report below by Badminton Wales As we headed in to May, the best u15 players from the 4 Home […]

Our U15 Quad team have started strong in Wales, beating Ireland 8-1 with an excellent performance from all players! Next, the team took on Wales with fantastic 7-2 victory. It’s great to see our players getting off to a confident start away from home and of course nailing the team […]

By Brian Donaldson (Regional Development Officer for Highlands, Islands and Moray) #GoPlayBadmintonInGuernsey2023 With a little over ten weeks to go until the Opening Ceremony at the NatWest International Island Games XIX (Sat, 8 Jul 2023 – Fri, 14 Jul 2023), the level of excitement for Badminton players, coaches and managers […]

The best of luck to our U15 Quadrangular team who left for Wales from Glasgow Central this morning! The U15 Quad will feature teams from Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. The team event starts tomorrow, followed by the individual event on Saturday and semi-finals/finals on Sunday. Play your best everyone […]

By RJ Mitchell With the next HSBC WBF World Tour event just under a month away, the countdown to the Perodua Malaysia Masters in Kuala Lumpur is one which is filled with intense preparation, activity, and planning. Everything is being done to get our elite players in the best shape, […]

A huge congratulations to Dan Travers who was awarded BEC Senior Player of the Year on Saturday at the 2023 BEC Congress. This award honours his outstanding achievement of winning the 2022 European Senior Championships in men’s singles, men’s doubles, and mixed doubles (65+). A special mention and well done […]

By Hugh Ainsley The last Age Group competition of the season was held at Wishaw Sports Centre on Saturday 22 April. The entries were quite high and also perfect for the draws with all events having perfect pools of 4. For boys singles there were 20 entries., including 3 boys […]

A huge well done and congratulations to Erin McIlvaney and Eloise Lowrie who have both won gold medals in Perth, Australia at the World Transplant Games 2023. Erin won her women’s singles match (12-14 category) against her GB&NI team mate, fellow Scot Eloise who plays in Aberdeenshire, Inverurie to win […]

By Lanarkshire Badminton The Lanarkshire Badminton Group (LBG) on Saturday hosted their  first ever Bonanza Grade C tournament.  The 3 events which involved Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles were made up of 34 entries attracting players from all across Scotland including local to Lanarkshire and surrounding areas such […]

By Julie Dunlop Fifteen Scots travelled down to Hertfordshire from 14-16 April 2023 to compete in the All-England Masters Open. As well as the usual suspects, there were a few first timers competing in the tournament. We had entries in almost every age group ranging from over 35 to over […]

By RJ Mitchell CALLUM SMITH is hoping that a promising showing at last week’s FZ Forza Dutch International will help put behind a frustrating spell of injury and illness. The three-time Scottish Men’s Singles champion missed most of the recent European swing after suffering a back injury but last week […]