Yet again Alan Spink the fast fingered photographer has done it again! With a bank of sharp, crystal clear, action photographs Alan Spink a close friend and colleague of West Midlands Performance Centre, has splupplied yet another set of photographs for the Centre’s website. Let me know what you think of them as they are used in the heading on each page. If you want to find out more about Alan click HERE.
Thank you again Alan for supplying some great photographs.
New badminton player Joe Kamara joined the West Midlands Performance Centre recently. His mom tells us about his success so far. Click HERE.
ONE or TWO days of badminton for your children. Let them play till there hearts content. With fun games, competitions, shot and footwork coaching and of course lots of ‘normal’ games. For more details click HERE.
If your children enjoy sport them let them have a taste of badminton and see how they get on. Also for those children who already play and just want to play more.
Contact Stephanie 07976 814036
West Midlands Performance Centre in conjunction with Badminton England organised a BISI festival in Birmingham to coincide with the Yonex All England Championships 2012. The participating school visited the NIA to spectate. The went to the Doug Ellis Sports Centre where 9 schools took part in the festival. The team names consisted of ‘players names’ seeing ‘Donna Kellogg’ George Dixon International School, triumph with a convincing 1518 points. Second place saw a close battle between ‘Jenny Wallwork’ Ninestiles School and ‘Nathan Robertson’ Smiths Wood College with only 15 points difference. See HERE for full details. George Dixon has won a Badminton Coaching session for the school as the prize. This will be delivered by Stephanie Cartwright-Randle – Development Officer for the PC.
The boys singles ran very smoothly, despite several contestants not turning up on the day. With the fantastic volunteers organising the event, time was made up. The boys singles semi-finals produced two worthy finalists. Rob Lowes took an early lead, but Matthew Smith clawed an important 3 points back to give 20-20. The next few rallies were nail-bitingly tease for spectators. Rob Lowes came up thrumps with a 26-24 victory.
The results are in CLICK HERE for the full Results
This Sunday 4 March.
Badminton England BRONZE under 17 event being held in Birmingham welcomes all spectators.
Watch some of the up and coming youngsters from local counties competing in this event held by the West Midlands Performance Centre over two venues. Click HERE for more details.
No entrance fee, just loads of good badminton to watch.
It has been a rush creating the new website. The information for the BRONZE Acceptance List needed to be published quickly. So apologies for any inconvenience, especially Vicky Bowater (who has handled all the applications for the tournament and has been inundated with calls regarding the event). A BIG thank you to Alan Spink of Action Photography who has very kindly supplied the images for the site.
Your comments will be much appreciated.
