19 March 2025
The Nationwide Colleges Badminton Championships will return once more this yr following its post-Covid revival 12 months in the past and one of the best younger badminton gamers from across the nation will battle it out for nationwide honours.
Right here is all that you must learn about this yr’s occasion:
When will it happen?
The occasion will tackle Saturday twenty ninth March and Sunday thirtieth March.
The place will it happen?
The occasion will happen on the Nationwide Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes.
What classes are there?
There are 4 classes: KS3 (college years seven to 9) Women, KS3 Boys, KS4 (college years 10 to 11) Women and KS4 Boys.
What faculties will likely be there?
There will likely be one college for every of the 4 classes from every of the eight areas faculties are cut up into.
What are the eight areas?
The eight areas, which even have their very own color, are: Yorkshire & North East (mild blue), North West (crimson), East Midlands (orange), West Midlands (purple), East (yellow), London & South East (inexperienced), South Central (white) and South West (darkish blue).
How did the colleges get there?
The colleges competing on the occasion can have received a collection of occasions at native, county and regional degree to get there.
Who received final yr?
In each the KS3 and KS4 Women classes, Kendrick Faculty from the South Central area took the crown.
Wilson’s Faculty from London and South East received the KS3 Boys event and Studying Faculty from South Central win the KS4 Boys occasion.
What number of faculties took half on this yr’s occasion?
Final yr 280 faculties took half and this yr that quantity is over double!
Every area has its personal color (see above) and their very own theme tune that totally different faculties will come out to.
Louise Hewitt, Badminton England’s younger folks supervisor, stated: “Placing on the occasion is nice.
“The common age of a junior (enjoying badminton) is 14, which we need to be a lot decrease, so an enormous push of our technique is to get younger folks concerned, and to do this, we should begin at faculties.
“This yr’s occasion is totally inclusive as each college within the nation had the chance to participate.
“If we will exhibit development from final yr, which we’ve got achieved, if we will exhibit success, if we will exhibit constructive tales, then the occasion is just going to go from energy to energy and hopefully it’ll imply will decide up a company sponsor.”
