A good day for our Under13s at the East Staffs Bronze tournament.  Kayleigh Prior and Grace Taylor won silver in the girls doubles, whilst Simon Leon won silver in the boys' singles, losing in the final by the narrowest of margins, 22-20. David Ip won his box, to be knocked out in the quarter finals, whilst Kayleigh lost in the semi-finals.

Congratulations to the following winners of the Warwickshire Schiools Restricted Tournaments held today at Coventry Sports Centre:

Under 11 boys       Ishtiak Al-Jamil

Under 13 boys       Hugh Atkinson                      Under 13 Girls      Natasha Killian

Under 15 boys       Elliott Clarke                         Under 15 Girls      Jean Yang

Under 17 Boys       Edward Johnson                   Under 17 Girls      Kathryn Fitch

The Under 12/13 and Under 16/17 Age group tournaments will be on Saturday March 20th at Rugby School. All squad players should enter if at all possible.

An entry form is attached. It must be returned by February 27th

The Under 11 and U15 Age Group Tournaments will take place at Coventry Sports Centre on Sunday, May 9th. An entry form will appear here and on the Tournament section of the website soon

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Kayleigh Prior and Grace Taylor represented Warwickshire in the U12 Kathy Woods Invitation Doubles, in Stroud.  The competition is a league format, with seven pairs competing for the honours.  The Warks pair beat off pairs from around the UK, with perhaps the best (Somerset and Surrey) to come as the final games. The strong Somerset pairing were dispatched in emphatic style, leaving a showdown with a similarly unbeaten Surrey pairing.  The Warks pair took the first game 15-10, Grace and Kayleigh controlling the game.  The Surrey pairing then showed their mettle by engineering an impressive comeback in the second game to win 12-15, and set up a thrilling finale.  It was nip and tuck between the pairs, but unfortunately a deep lunge resulted in a painful injury for Kayleigh, and although she bravely played on, the Surrey pair proved to be too stong and took the final game 15-13.  A thrilling finale to a terrific day of badminton, and a well-deserved silver medal to a courageous Warks pair.

Warwickshire U15 and U17 players have been collecting medals all over the country in January.

In the Avon U15 Doubles tournament Warwickshire pairs Eve O'sullivan & Sam Parsons and Matt Close and Til'Shiloh Shaw-Cole recorded a double win for the county.

In the U15 Gold tournament at Stoke on Trent, Sam Parsons came away with three gold medals - in the Singles, in the doubles with Matt Close, and in the mixed with Eve O'Sullivan. Eve won the silver medal in the girls doubles with Vicki Williams. So Warwickshire left very few other medals for other counties to pick up!

In the U17  Gold Tournament at Leigh, Rhys walker picked up Gold in the Singles, and also Gold in the doubles with Aaron Cheng. Eve O'Sullivan won silver in the doubles with a scratch partner and Sam Parsons and Matt Close got to the finals of the boys doubles.

All in all a very successful month.

Entry forms for the U12, U14  and U16 Rising Stars are in the Tournament section of this site

A beautiful sunny day provided the backdrop for a terrific day of badminton, the Under 15 Shires League Finals.  All the big hitters were there, none bigger than Warwickshire. The draw gave us Staffs as our first opponents. The team sent out a warning to the others by dismissing Staffs with a professional 20-0 beating.  The second round draw gave us our old enemy Avon, and it was clear from the team that old scores needed to be settled.  Avon gave us a good fight, providing a few surprises, but in the end we emerged 15-5 victors. And so to the final that everyone had expected and hoped for - Warks versus Cheshire, a repeat of the Team Challenge Finals.  It's fair to say that the Shires League format is more suited to a team effort, and so it proved.  Once again we took all of the mixed games, stepping up a gear and playing some fabulous badminton.  To quote Ian Rissotto "Warwickshire were in no mood for defeat".  Honours were shared in the boys singles, and also in the girls singles, however we remained 4 games up. A culmination of 3 out of the 4 boys doubles, and a crucial girls doubles ensured that Warks ran out comfortable winners and Shires League Champions for 2009 ! A terrific day, where each and every team member played exceptionally well. Thanks go to Gerry, Darren and Ryan for their invaluable assistance during the matches, and of course to the massed support of the Warwick Crew!  It's fair to say we were the best supported county by a long chalk. And all plaudits go to the victorious team of Til'Shiloh Shaw-Cole, Matt Close, Joshwey Bong, Rhys Walker, Becci Crawshaw, Sam Parsons, Eve O'Sullivan, Mike Brazier and  Rob Spink.