Hastings YMCA Badminton ClubThere was the U-17 Gold Tournament at the National Badminton Centre at Milton Keynes recently, where Tim (Leakey – Club Chairman/Match & Membership Secretary) officiated.
A good all-round tournament at the National Centre, which is currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment.
It is also home to the National Badminton Museum, that shows the eras of the game from the beginning to the present day.
Karthik a member of YMCA Badminton club recently had success in the U12 Sussex Restricted Tournament Winning Bronze in the Singles, Silver in Men’s Doubles and Gold in the Mixed Doubles!
Alan Smith, England Badminton Award winner, former Sussex County Chairman and Vice President and Eastbourne and District Badminton Chairman has sadly passed away.
The Eastbourne Badminton League has created a tribute as well as funeral details on the Eastbourne badminton website, Where personal recollections or thoughts can be added. http://www.eastbournebadminton.co.uk/index.htm
Tim (Chairman/Match & Membership Secretary) officiated at the U-17 Gold at Redbridge Sports Centre recently. For those that don’t know, Redbridge was built for the warm up Badminton courts for the 2012 London Olympics
The club had three teams in a local quiz to raise money for a local charity that saves sight in Columbia. The quiz was written by Tim (Club Chairman) & Samantha(Club secretary) and the quizmaster was Tim. Great fun was had by all, raising £800:00 for the charity – https://theguruprojects.com/. Tim is going with the team in November to Columbia to work in the operating theatre during the trip. Thank you all for supporting the charity.
We hosted the second part of our in-house tournament where more pairs went head to head to test their ability.
It was another great night with all pairs doing well and having some great games played.
Trophies were handed out to the top three pairs but all pairs walked away with something at the end of the night. Congrats to all!
The winners of thenight were Callum & Violet with Tom & Ashley coming in second and Neil & Poala in third!
Recently our youngest member was involved in the junior tournament Sussex Juniors Rising Starts 2024
This tournament is for ages 11-17 with our member Karthik entering the U11 and he was very successful in winning the Tournament for his age group at 9 years old!!.
The club recently hosted another Inhouse tournament for our members with the first part of this happening on the 26th of June! This is a random draw where players play within that pair for the whole Tournament!
The in-house summer tournament for our social non-league players was held recently to great success!
It was well attended with 11 pairs playing 55 games in total. There was a very exciting playoff for first place between Ben Carter and his partner Gemma Batkin and our oldest player aged 80 Les Green and his partner Iain Glynn.
Ben and Gemma won overall with Les and Iain coming Second, The third-placed pair were only one point behind the winners! Mike Sherwood and new player Jo Wallwork unfortunately just missed out on that top two place this year.
Our youngest player Karthik Arun came a close fourth losing only 2 of their games.
It was a fun evening for all with the advanced tournament coming up on the 17th of July.
At our most recent AGM we once again celebrated one of our player’s improvements with the Will Brand Memorial Award! This year it went to Ben Carter one of our newer members within the last year.
Ben Carter enjoys playing badminton with his daughter Lily. Ben now plays several times a week and has elevated his ability so much to be now eligible for div one league matches next season.
As we do every year we celebrate Members of our club who have made great progress in their skills throughout the year and this year we are lucky enough to have a second award. Chariman’s Most Improved Lady Award!
Lucy Rainer is a shy girl who has really come out of her shell recently. Her badminton has improved so much that she was awarded the Chairman’s Most Improved Lady Award 2024.
