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The players who are selected to travel, with coach, Andy Bowman, are as follows (listed alphabetically) Girls: Katrina Chan      (Glasgow) Ishbel McCallister (Edinburgh) Vibha Raman (Edinburgh) Brooke Stalker (Dunfermline)   Boys Lewis Coghill (Glasgow) Joe Esson (Glasgow) James Miller (Edinburgh) Matthew Waring (Motherwell)   The nominated non-travelling reserves are Iona [...]

Five boys and three girls travelled to Stockton on Tees to take part in the Teeside U17 Silver on Saturday 1 February with great results. First events were women’s doubles and men’s singles. Sophie Barrie and Katie Stewart won their pool and then overcame fellow Scot Amy Craig in the [...]

As more clubs open and more coaches are trained, the new SIDC will increase the accessibility and inclusivity of such opportunities, encouraging growing numbers of people to get involved. Clubs who are interested in the scheme can apply if they are Shuttlemark Bronze, Silver or Gold accredited, and they fulfil [...]

Joshua Apiliga and Brooke Stalker both claimed a hat-trick of titles at today’s U15/19 National Junior Badminton Championships at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell. Stalker successfully defended last year’s title treble of under 15 girls’ singles, doubles and mixed while in the under 19 events Apiliga upgraded the two [...]

The club has had a few venues through the years – Bruce Street Drill Hall, Elgin Street Drill Hall, Rosyth Institute to name some of them. On looking through the club records a number of familiar names from the past are mentioned – David Gow, Hunter Prain, Fraser Gow, Joanna [...]

Colin had recently retired but was still active in badminton. Colin had been heavily involved in supporting the development of junior and schools’ badminton over the years and held several roles in LASBA, the LBG and the SSBU. For many years Colin was the focus the school’s badminton team events [...]

It was good to see a couple of local pairs entering and experiencing a higher level of competition. The semi-finals played on Sunday resulted in a hard fought win for top seeds Josh Apiliga & Rachel Sugden over Callum Smith & Erin Waddell and in the other half of the [...]

Badminton Scotland has been awarded funding from sportscotland to give 20 clubs £100 each to provide free period products for members. The £2000 grant is part of a £50,000 fund awarded to sportscotland by the Scottish Government. By supporting clubs to offer free period products to participants and visitors, the fund [...]

Brooke Stalker will be aiming to defend her Under 15 title treble of girls’ singles, doubles and mixed when the U15/19 Scottish National Junior Championships gets underway at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility on 14 December 2019. The thirteen-year-old year old prodigy first won the girls’ doubles in 2017, then followed [...]

Huge congratulations to all the finalists. The games were all highly contested and a special congratulations goes out to Deepti Vijayakumar and Abbie Brooks who both won the treble, Deepti at under 13 winning singles beating Shannon Leslie in the final, level doubles with Qing Yang Xiao beating Gemma Foulis [...]

Ciara Torrance was over the moon to clinch her first international title last week after claiming the mixed doubles title with Alex Dunn at the VICTOR Welsh International. The Scottish pair teamed up and defeated England’s Matthew Clare and Hope Warner 21-14 20-22 21-17 in the final, holding their nerve [...]

Throughout Scotland, there is a community bringing people together. Whether it is a story of high performance, family fun, social banter, new friends or simply a nice excuse for some tea and biscuits – they all have one theme in common; badminton. Badminton Scotland is proud to present “Scottish Badminton [...]