Badminton Club - University of Birmingham Sport

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Head Coach: Lorraine Cole e: l.m.cole@bham.ac.uk Lorraine has been head badminton coach at UBSport since 2010 Read about Lorraine

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Honarary president: Dave Eddy

Introduction to the club:
The University of Birmingham is proud to be one of the very best universities for Badminton in the country. We provide something for everyone from immensely enjoyable club evenings and many social events to high performance level play.

All of our competitive play takes place in our superb newly refurbished 5 court Sports Hall whilst the smaller 4 court Hall (also with a sprung floor) is used for training. For fitness training we use our weights room and newly refurbished Fitness Suite.

As a Focus Sport the Badminton Club at Birmingham benefits from the services of the Human Performance Unit which include fitness testing and screening, nutritional advice, medical and physiotherapy services plus sports psychology support.

Coaching

Birmingham is a TASS institution and also a High Performance Centre for Badminton England. The England Coach attached to the centre is former International, Lorraine Cole, who runs regular sessions for the senior England singles Squad based in Birmingham plus her England Junior Performance ‘Cell’ players.

Playing Sessions

Monday TASS and England Squad 4.30-8.30 pm

Tuesday Squad 8-10 am Squad 8.30-10.30 pm

Wednesday BUSA Matches (or match practice) 2-5 pm

Thursday Squad 8-10 am Match night 7.30-10.30 pm

Friday Squad 7-9 am Club night 7.30-10.30 pm

Sunday   September 28th 11 am -1 pm

Results

Birmingham is consistently rated within the top 3 universities for sport and badminton. Each season the major competitions are the Individual Championships at Nottingham in November plus the Team League matches – after Christmas Team KOs are also held with the Finals and semi-finals taking place in Sheffield in March.

Birmingham always comes away from Nottingham with a good number of medals and in the past 10 years we have provided the British Universities Individual Champion in Mens Singles on 6 occasions and in Womens Singles twice. In the same period we have also won 6 Gold medals in Team KO competitions.

In addition to the University competitions the Club runs 5 teams in the Birmingham League with our First teams competing very successfully in Division 1 of the Mens, Womens and Mixed Doubles.

Social Life

The Badminton Club is one of the most social clubs at the University and has a fantastic team spirit. We regularly meet up particularly on Wednesday nights after matches before going on to Sports Night at the Guild of Students. We are lucky to have our Sports Café ‘Raising the Bar’ on site at the Munrow Sports Centre for essential refuelling after competition and we hold regular socials throughout the year. Special events are our infamous Christmas Party and the end of season Athletic Union Dinner.