Penarth Junior Badminton Club
'Inspire, win and be admired'
Penarth Junior Badminton Club are the first club to receive Welsh Badminton's Club Accreditation BRONZE level award. The club has gone from strength to strength over the last few seasons and has now established a strong structure for continued development. Fully constituted, the club has a strong base of volunteers and coaches and is always on the look out for new players.
Club Training Sessions are held at Western Leisure Centre, Caerau Lane, Ely on Tuesday.
Session 1 - Recreational Players 6.30 - 8.00 pm
Session 2 - Competitive Players 8.00 - 9.30 pm
Contacts
Chairman - Sarah Jones -
jones-k35@sky.com
Secretary - Sian Platt – spemailme@hotmail.com
CLUB SESSIONS - What happens at our club sessions?
As well as learning and improving our badminton shots, we also improve our fitness and footwork and try to concentrate on match play and improving our tactics for singles, doubles and mixed. We try to make this more enjoyable by having club tournaments and competitions, these include: End of season singles and doubles competitions, mini singles/doubles/mixed doubles tournaments, skills competition and a singles and doubles ladder Competition also operates during the season.
Other club initiatives to develop players:
At the end of each season, the club presents a number of awards to those players, the most prestigious of which is the Stuart Dickson Player of the Year Award – this award has been set up in memory of our long time manager/coach and friend who sadly passed away November 2006. It is awarded on an annual basis to one player from each session that has shown some or all of the following attributes:
1. Committed club player who turns up regularly for club night and plays for the team whenever or if they are asked.
2. Has good court manners
3. Listens when being coached and tries their best
4. Their game or some of their shots have improved
5. Is a good sport and always enjoys playing.
Previous winners of this Award include:
2006/2007 season - Adam Griffiths and Tobias Trigg
2007/2008 season – Jack Scanlon and Sara Edwards
2008/2009 season - Sophie Arrighi and Sophia Alexander
2008/09 Season
The 2008/2009 season saw our Under 14 team become Cardiff League Champions for the third year running (8 of the 9 strong team are pictured here)
2009 French Badminton Tour
Penarth Juniors are twinned with Aix en Provence Badminton. In August this year the Club took a team of 14 players aged 13 – 18 years to the South of France to train at the Aix badminton camp and play a team match against the local club. Our Welsh team trained in temperatures exceeding 30 degrees centigrade and although training was intensive players showed a good level of endurance and commitment. In the team match, Penarth Juniors were up against an older and more experienced team and all players fought with real determination, notable performances from Denholm Edmunds and Luke Jones in singles and doubles, Marco Arrighi and Will Painter in doubles, Sarah Platt, Will Beech and Sara Edwards, Marco Arrighi and Charlotte Platt in Mixed Doubles. Penarth narrowly lost 9 – 10, a fantastic match played with great atmosphere and good sportsmanship.
A great time was had by all Welsh and French players, coaches and families and as a result we will be hosting the French team once again in 2010 – Allez les Gallois!
What is happening 2009/2010 season?
We have entered a boys doubles team in the senior league and an under 18 team and under 14 team in the junior league. In 2010 the Club will be hosting Aix en Provence Badminton Club and we are looking forward to organising a number of matches for Club and County players to enjoy.
Interested in joining our club - please get in touch!!