Badminton New Zealand

All the New Zealand semi-finalist's found the opposition too strong at the u17 Australasian Championships tonight, with only the doubles pair of Rayna Phillips & Kaitlyn McLeod winning through to tomorrow's finals.

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Players from Northern NZ moved into the semi-final round at the morning session of the Australasian u17 Tournament in Hobart.

Northern NZ retained the June Bevan trophy with a tight win over New South Wales on a countback after matches were tied at 8 - 8.

Badminton New Zealand is pleased to announce that Events Manager Julie Carrel will be running an ‘Events Organisers Course’ during the weekend of the New Zealand Junior International 2012.

Jeff Elliotte, Otago Badminton Development Officer has been delivering the new Raqueteers programme in schools during term 1 and such was the success they now have 1200 children signed up for next term from different schools all with a minimum of 4 sessions each.

The 2012 BNZ Handbook has been sent out to all Associations and key people in time for the first Inter Associations ties of the 2012 season.

Badminton New Zealand is pleased to announce that the Regional U13 and U15 High Performance programme is ready to be launched and we are now calling for nominations.

The 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow might seem a long way off, but if New Zealand is to qualify a team to compete at these games then the road to qualification needs to start now.

Badminton New Zealand is pleased to announce SPEEDMINTON as the sponosr of the new 2012 North Island Under 17 & 15 Circuits.

After beating Australia in the final of the Thomas Cup qualifiers, a New Zealand Team of five men will be travelling to China in May to compete in the finals.

The finalists have been found in all events at the Alpers Lodge New Zealand National Championships being played at Auckland Badminton. 

Click more for a list of the matches, commencing 11am Sunday

Click here for the full results

Badminton New Zealand is pleased to announce the following new initiatives for the u13 age group in 2012:

• The introduction of a national u13 player points list – all BNZ sanctioned u13 events will earn point
• The introduction of North and South Island u13 Championships (individual events only)
• The introduction of the New Zealand u13 National Championships (individual events only)

Click more to download a poster detailing these changes

Last week BNZ welcomed Speed Badminton into the sport and this was further cemented with Speedminton appearing on One News on Friday.

Following the success of players at the Oceania Championships, New Zealand players have seen a boost to their BWF World ranking points today.

As announced at the 2011 AGM Badminton New Zealand a new initiative for 2012 is the North Island u17 & u15 Circuits. 

All details have now been finalised.  Click here for full details

Badminton New Zealand is pleased to announce the launch of Speed Badminton and welcomes this new - fast code into the family.  Speed Badminton is a fast outdoor sport that can be played anytime, anywhere.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/6486519/Chan-boosts-Olympic-argument-with-easy-win

The end of a long 10 days of badminton saw New Zealand players bring home two Oceania titles, loads of BWF World Ranking points and the opportunity for the men to play in the Thomas Cup finals in China, in May.

At the end of Day 2 of the individual event Kiwi players were still flying the NZ flag strongly in the Oceania Individual Championships.

BNZ spent 2011 developing a Long Term High Performance Strategy that aims to get New Zealand back into world class badminton and winning key events and medals on the world stage.

The draws for the following sections of the New Zealand Inter-association competition in 2012 have been confirmed: 

New Zealand Division 3-5
North Island Masters
North Island Veteran
North Island Super-Veterans
 

Click to view the draws for the above competitions 

The Badminton New Zealand Annual Awards dinner was held at Butterfyl Creek on Saturday 19th November. The event was well attended by over 70 people who participated in a 'Fun Quiz Night' while also celebrating the acheivements of our award winners.

The 2011 BNZ Annual Awards and dinner is being held on Saturday 19th November at Butterfly Creek, Auckland.

BNZ has spent the last few months working with key stakeholders and the High Performance Committee to develop a Long Term High Performance Plan, which will come into effect in 2012.