School Badminton Tournament

Unipart/Forza School Badminton Tournament

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Unipart and FZ Forza have teamed together again this year, to sponsor another local School Badminton Tournament here in Birmingham.  W.M.P.C. (West Midlands Performance Centre) are hosting the School Badminton Tournament for the second year. The event is for school children who like playing badminton. Who have little experience apart from at school and in the back garden. It is an opportunity for children to taste competitive badminton and possibly open the doors to junior county badminton.  The event will be attended by coaches from local counties and performance centre to identify potential talented players.

The winners of each age group will qualify for the NATIONAL school badminton tournament Finals to be held in June 2013.

FOR full details click HERE.

New Satellite Junior club for West Midlands Performance Centre – WMPC Longbridge

West Midlands Performance Centre are pleased to confirm XDC Badminton Club as their latest Satellite club – WMPC Longbridge. XDC have started a Junior club and are looking for Young players. During September starting on the 2nd, XDC are offering a FREE trial to children who are interested in joining the club. The club is from 16.30 till 17.30 on Sunday afternoons. The coaching sessions will be run by Stephanie Cartwright-Randle one of the WMPC coaches.

If you are interested then contact either Norma (XDC) normaporter@btinternet.com or Stephanie (WMPCstefcr@live.co.uk – 07976 814036

More sport in schools! – Will badminton be one of the?

The Government have announced that there should be more sport in schools. Will the schools follow this up and look at badminton as being one of these sports?

The West Midlands Performance Centre are promoting badminton and looking for schools to deliver one of their ‘school packages’ to pupils in Birmingham and surrounding areas. Details of these packages can be found HERE. If you as a school teacher and interested then contact Stephanie (Development Office for the PC) by email stefcr@live.co.uk or call 07976 814036

Interested in participating in a little Monday Madness or even in Wacky Wednesdays?

Stephanie Cartwright-Randle the Development Office at the Performance Centre has organised some SUMMER HIOLIDAY BADMINTON FUN.  If your child or children are interested in having FUN over the Summer Holidays then why not send them along to ONE or a FEW of her sessions.  These sessions will be all about BADMINTON FUN.  Stephanie is interested in spreading the badminton word among kids and making sure they have some fun whilst playing the game.

Monday Madness and Wacky Wednesdays are for Children up to 14 who just want to have some fun and play badminton. Interested then check out the details HERE, Email stefcr@live.co.uk or call 07976814036

Mom talks about badminton success for her son

New badminton player Joe Kamara joined the West Midlands Performance Centre recently. His mom tells us about his success so far. Click HERE.

Unipart and FZ Forza together sponsor Schools Tournament in Birmingham

Together Unipart and Forza sponsor a series of schools tournament on on Sunday 20 May 2012 here in Birmingham it comes tot he NIA.

The tournaments are aimed at players with little experience of playing the game of badminton and have yet to represent their county.

The tournaments offers the opportunity of competitive play without the worry of meeting county level players. For details click HERE. For an entry form click HERE.

BISI Festival Winners – Win badminton coaching prize.

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.