13 September 2008

Dear Mr & Mrs (for your information)

I would like to invite xxxx to join the Great Orme Badminton Club.

The Great Orme junior club play on three nights 5.00pm to 7.00pm

1)                  Monday’s – reserved for the National and County squad players and invited

                                tournament players

2)                Tuesday’s - 4 courts for club players with coaching

3)            Thursday’s - 4 courts for club players with coaching

The club is open throughout most of the year, however we will advise the days when the club

will be closed, eg Christmas/New Year, Easter and school holidays. 

The Great Orme club was formed in September 1999 and has 50 junior players currently registered with the Welsh Badminton Union and the Conwy County Badminton Association. It is the premier club in North West Wales with National standard players including 4 National Champions, two of whom were the 2006/07 Welsh No 1 U-19 male and female player.

The club has one girl who represented Wales and won a bronze medal at the 2007 U-17 UK Schools

Games (a 9 sport event replicating an Olympic game atmosphere) and who is hoping to

upgrade to Badminton England silver standard tournaments, with another girl playing at Badminton England U-15 gold standard tournaments. The club has two girls who represented Wales in the 2008

UK Schools Games.

The club is aimed at giving your child, the player, the level of badminton that they are

comfortable with. For the player that shows potential and who wishes to play competitively, we will set up coaching sessions and recommend suitable tournaments.

For the beginner/moderate player we will also recommend a suitable series of tournaments,

held locally and designed for the moderate standard junior player.

Coaching and competitive matches will only be given to the players that want them, if they

only want to play club badminton then courts are set aside for those players.

No one is made to do something they do not want.

The club enters teams into the Conwy County Inter club team tournament.

Season 1999/2000                               Season 2000/01                      

U-13 Runners-up                                Winners                      

U-15 Winners                                      Winners and Runners-up                   

U-17 Runners-up                                Winners and Runners-up                   

Season 2001/2002                               Season 2002/03          

U-11 Runners-up                                Runners-up    

U-13 Winners and Runners-up             Winners          

U-15 Winners                                      Winners          

U-17 Winners                                      Winners          

Season 2003/04                                   Season 2004/05

U-13 Winners                                      Winners and Runners-up

U-15 Winners and Runners-up            Winners and Runners-up

U-17 Winners                                      Winners and Runners-up

Season 2005/06 not held - no opposition

Season 2006/07 not held - no opposition

Season 2007/08 not held - no opposition

The club has since the 2000/01 season had players in the Welsh Badminton Union Junior National Squads

Season 2005/06

Welsh Badminton Union   U-13 National Squad             1 girl

                                                U-15 National Squad             1 girl

                                                U-17 National Squad             1 boy

                                                U-19 National Squad             1 girl and 1 boy

High Performance Elite Squad                                           2 girls and 2 boys

High Performance Development Squad                          3 girls and 1 boy

Season 2001/02                       U-13 National Champion in boys singles and mixed doubles

Season 2003/04                       U-11 National Champion in mixed doubles

                                                U-17 National Champion in boys singles, level and mixed doubles.

Season 2004/05                       U-13 National Champion in mixed doubles

Season 2005/06                       U-19 National Champion in girls singles, mixed doubles and boys doubles.

Season 2001/05                       Junior County Champions

Season 2006/07                       U-15 girl in the Welsh team in the UK team championships.            

                                                8 Junior County Championship titles

                                                3 Senior County Championship titles                

Season 2007/08                       U-16 girl in the Welsh U-17 team in the UK team championships

                                                U-15 girl in the Welsh U-15 team in the UK team championships

                                                U-15 National Champion in girls singles and doubles

                                                U-12 boy in the Welsh U-13 team in the Celtic Challenge

                                                9 Junior County Championship titles

                                                4 Senior County Championship titles                                        

In charge of coaching will be

Neil Cottrill BSc (Hons) MSc, PGCE

Welsh Badminton Coach and Coach Tutor

Coach to the North Wales High Performance Centre

Coach to the Wales Summer Camps

2001 Welsh Badminton Coach of the year

2001 Conwy County Sportsman of the year

An ex England and Wales International player

A member of the 1996 British Olympic Badminton Squad

                            1999 Wales World Cup Team

                            2000 Wales European Cup Team

                            2002 Wales Commonwealth Games Team

Welsh National Champion in Men’s Doubles. 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002

Welsh National Champion in Mixed Doubles.           2000, 2001, 2002

Former World Ranked 12th in Men’s Doubles (1996)

Graduate in Sports Science from Loughborough University

Assistant coaches are

Joe Hill             Level 2 Intermediate

Nikki Cottrill                Level 1 Leader - Monday Tournament players

Rhian Jones                  Level 1 Leader

Mike Moore                 Level 1 Leader

FEES:

Membership fee        £15.00 per year (Inclusive of all affiliation fees*)

                                    plus £3.00 per session

Casual players              £5.00 per session

* Affiliated to the Welsh Badminton Union and the Conwy County Badminton Association.

Yours sincerely

J.D.Hill