The junior badminton club is very successful and run by Alison Walker, who for the last 14 years has put in a tremendous amount of work and without her the Club would have surely folded years ago. Every year we are at bursting point with juniors who are eagerly wanting to join, however we can only accept a set number so it goes by first come first served.
The Club is taken and coached by Stephen Ross, a local player who is also an SBU qualifed badminton instructor.
Every Thursday between the hours of 18:00 and 20:00, with primary children between 18:00 and 18:30 and high school students between 18:30 and 20:00.
Members of Kinross Badminton Club and Kinross High School had a good string of results in the recent above tournament. The results are as follows:
Under 19 results:
Girls Singles Winner: Christine Sorbie Kinross High School
Runner Up: Jennifer McLean Perth Grammar School
Boys Singles Winner: Patrick McHugh Kinross High School
Runner Up: Enoch Mak Strathallan
Boys Doubles Winners: Patrick McHugh/Rory Cooper Kinross High School
Runners Up: Matthew Gallagher/Craig Smith Perth High School
Girls Doubles Winners: Penny Burns/Kirsty Butt Perth High School
Runners Up: Iona Dargie/Jennifer McLean Perth High School
Mixed Doubles Winners: Christine Sorbie/Rory Cooper Kinross High School
Runners Up: Cat Blair/Nathan Hutchison Kinross High School
Under 14 results:
Girls Singles Winner: Rosemary Anderson Perth High School
Runner Up: Elspeth Young Kinross High School
Boys Singles Winner: Paul Jarvie St John's Academy
Runner Up: Cameron Ritchie Perth High School
Girls Doubles Winners: Caroline McPherson/RobynGallacher
Pitlochry High School
Runners Up: A Shearer/ K Walton Perth Grammar School
Boys Doubles Winners: Cameron Ritchie/Ryan Martin Perth High School
Runners Up: Steven Laurie/Paul Jarvie St John's Academy
Mixed Doubles Winners: Rosemary Anderson/Ruaidhre Forrester
Perth High School
Runners Up: Elspeth Young/Calum Baker Kinross High School
On the last night of the Junior Club before Chtristmas. After a busy year training, we finished of with a fun night for the primary group with different games being played, everyone had lots of fun. This was followed up with a fun Christmas tournament for the Junior Club.
The results are as follows:
Boys Singles Winner: Jack Fraser
Boys Runner-up: Ben Cooper
Boys Doubles Winners: Katie Johnston & Jack Fraser
Boys Doubles Runners-up: David Black & Colum Stevenson
Many thanks to Ruaridh Stevenson, who did an excellent job of umpiring both finals, adding a professional touch to the competitions (A future S.B.U Umpire in the making?). I would like to point out that the level of sportmanship among our young players was absolutely excellent, throughout the tournament (and year!). Everyone went home with a Christmas selection box. A good night was had by all. Also many thanks to our resident coach Stephen Ross for all his efforts during 2009.
Alison Walker
Junior Club Secretary
As we come to the end of our season again. Our young players had a visit from the company Yonex International who sponsor all the major badminton championships. The evening was organised through Dylan Eglestaff, Sales & Promotional executive for Yonex. He also brought along three of our top Scottish Junior players Paul Van-Reitvelde, Angus Gilmour & Martin Campbell Yonex British player of the year & Bronze medalist in last years Commonwealth Junior Games. Our young players had a chance to try their skills against the players and were also able to try out the latest range of rackets from Yonex. We would also like to express our thanks to Brian Gannon (Rapid Repairs) Gullane sports for their support through Yonex.
The last week saw the end of the season for the primary group who finished their season with a fun night. The Junior section end of season competitions are as follows:
Boys Single: Winner: Charles Nurick
Runner up: Stewart Fairbairn
Boys Doubles: Winners: Charles Nurick
David Black
Runners up: Lewis Hunter
Sandy Lenard
We as a Club would like to express our thanks for the amazing attendance all season both in the primary group and the Junior section, most nights we have had a full house all season, so thank you to all our young players for their great attendance.
I would also like to thank Stephen Ross for his support as coach and also our visiting coach Richard Mitusch, by next season we hope to be in the new High school.
For more details regarding the Junior Club contact Alison Walker 01592 840392
Compared to most other junior clubs Kinross offers competitive prices, and considering what it offers in terms of coaching, it is good value for money.
A membership for the primary children is £10 with a nightly fee of £2 a night, and for a membership at the junior club it is £15, with a nightly fee of £2 per night.
For non members it is £4 a night but your first night is always Free!!!
At the end of every season we offer the high school students the opportunity to take part in a variety of tournaments from boys and girls singles to doubles and mixed doubles with the winners and runners up receiving trophies at the end, with the possibility this year of being presented at the presidents house at an end of season barbeque, however this is still to be decided. This season we are also offering the juniors the opportunity to enter themselves into a league held within the club to add that little extra bit of competition throughout the year.
