U15 County Squad

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Squad Facts

Players born in 2001 or 2002 are eligible for the Under 15 squad. Trials for the squad were held in June 2015, and we selected 29 players:

Boys: Cameron Bannister, Finlay Cattermole, Tomas Corteen, Keshitha De Silva, Ashay Dhingra, Jack Glynn, Sean Groarke, Jason Hayley, Samuel Jarman, Ghajaanan Jeevananthan, Nathan Lockwood, Levin Matthew, Finlay Reynolds, Michael Rock, Thomas Searle, Lucas Siu, Michael Walden, Sonny Ward

Girls: Elizabeth Bratton, Olivia Clark, Chloe Connolly, Laura De Costa, Amelia Dixon, Molly Goode, Khadijah Hasan, Charlotte Powell, Namia Raby, Vihini Ragalage, Abbie Smith

Many of these players already had a national grading at the start of the 2015/16 season:

• Grade F: Molly Goode, Abbie Smith
• Grade H: Cameron Bannister, Finlay Cattermole, Tommy Corteen, Ashay Dhingra, Jack Glynn, Samuel Jarman, Thomas Searle
• Grade I: Elizabeth Bratton, Olivia Clark, Laura De Costa, Keshitha De Silva, Amelia Dixon, Jason Haley, Khadijah Hasan, Ghajaanan Jeevananthan, Finlay Reynolds, Lucas Siu, Sonny Ward

The squad meets for training on Wednesday evenings from 7.30 - 9.30pm in the following weeks:

• 2 September - 21 October 2015 (8 weeks)
• 4 November - 16 December 2015 (7 weeks)
• 6 January - 10 February 2016 (6 weeks)
• 24 February - 30 March 2016 (6 weeks)

We are also holding extra sessions on Wednesday evenings after Easter 2016 for squad players born in 2002:

• 20 April - 25 May 2016 (6 weeks)

The training sessions are held at:

• Hertfordshire Sports Village, University of Hertfordshire De Havilland campus, Hatfield AL10 9EU

COACHING

The squad is managed and coaching is provided at the training sessions by two coaches, qualified with Badminton England Certificates:

• Ian Robinson (07906 461053, e-mail: ianbrobinson@hotmail.com),
• Hitesh Shah (0208 907 7790, e-mail: u15manager@hsba.org.uk),
• John Stobo (01707 332665, e-mail: j.r.stobo@btinternet.com)

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 their own age group and, ideally, for an extra challenge, in some of the older age group events as well. 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 five Badminton England tournaments during the season, though more ambitious players 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.

Please keep the coaches up-to-date with your results at these tournaments.

Matches

We play inter-county matches as follows;

• Shires League (season-long competition, with play-offs and then a national finals day in May)
• Friendlies (arranged as the calendar permits)

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

The present fixture list is HERE Updates will be made to it as the season progresses, for instance as we add the details of friendly matches with other counties, so squad players should keep an eye on it.