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Last Updated: 20th October 2015

U13 County Team


Herts U13 Squad 2015/2016

Herts U13 Squad 2015/2016

Squad training

Herts U13s are delighted to welcome Jo Goode as squad coach for another season. For anyone who is not aware, Jo won the Bronze Medal in mixed doubles at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, and over her career, also reached the Final of the world championships, won gold medals in Mixed and Level doubles at the European Championships and Commonwealth games, and won the Mixed doubles in the All England at Birmingham in 1999.

Our squad members will have the benefit of all that experience this year, as well as her inspiring coaching style and the focus and dedication which took her to the very top of the game.

Squad training runs from September to Easter, on Wednesdays from 5:30pm to 8pm, on 6 courts at Herts Sports Village, and will provide fitness, agility and technical training.

Coaching team & contact details

Squad managers give their time and experience for free

Squad Manager - Mike Newlove | Tel: 01707 263403 / 07973 771462 | e-mail: u13manager@hsba.org.uk

Squad Coach - Jo Goode

Tournaments

Tournament play, underpinned by regular high quality training, is the most effective way to improve as a player, developing your own skills and learning from other successful players. So we encourage members of the squad to compete regularly in these events.

All squad players should compete in the HSBA tournaments at Stevenage Leisure Centre at both U13 and U15 events. For details about the tournaments please click on the Tournaments menu button or here. To download entry forms please click on the Downloads menu button or here.

We also expect squad members to play at least 3 Badminton England tournaments during the season (although our more ambitious players, and those of our rival counties, will play many more) Performances in these tournaments count towards gradings in the national ranking system. Entry forms are available from the Badminton England website. Click here to go to the BE download page.

Matches

Herts U13s play inter-county matches as follows;

  1. Badminton England Team Challenge (One day event in East Anglia in November, top two teams qualify for national finals day in March)
  2. Shires League (season long competition, with a national play-off finals day in April)
  3. Eastern region team events (one day events at various venues in East Anglia)
  4. Friendlies (arranged as the calendar permits)

Selection for representative events will be on merit, but we try to give all squad members opportunities to develop by playing competitively for Hertfordshire.

Results

The latest information about the U13 squad fixtures and match results are shown on the Fixtures page here. For Shires League results please click HERE and for more information visit www.shiresbadminton.co.uk. For previous seasons results please click HERE.

**Eligibility Conditions Players are eligible to play inter-county badminton for Hertfordshire if they live in, were born in or are at school in, the administrative county of Hertfordshire.