A Grade

C1 Grade team (all WSBA players) Connie Lan, Ron Gray, Knok Barfe, Chris Bright, Thanh Tran, Raymond Som & Peter Walker

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WSBA congratulates James Audley, David Cutroni and Tegan Berry on their selection in the Vic. 1 Team and Jacob McNally, Jing Wu and Jen Trinh on their selection in the Vic. 2 Team to play in the CP Maddern Trophy in Launceston in July.

Pauline Martin will Manage the Vic. 1 Team, Liz Martin will Manage the Vic. 2 Team and Jen Kang will Coach the Vic. 2 Team.

We thank all those WSBA Players and Officials for their continued support of Badminton in Victoria and hope they have a very successful carnival.. 

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2010 photos via this link - http://www.wsbaonline.com/PhotoGallery/tabid/374/AlbumID/885-89/Default.aspx

BAV will run its first Junior Tournament on Sunday 20th June. The entry form can be found on the VJB's NEW website, on the News Page, via this link.

 http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?assoc=6726&pID=1

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Thanks, Tegan! Great photos!

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WSBA is holding a Trivia Night to raise money to assist Ann-Louise Slee to fly to Paris for the Badminton World Championships in August. Ann & Leisha Cooper have been invited to attend.

The Poster for the trivia night can be found here.

Come along and support Ann.

If you are unable to attend you could make a donation instead, see Ron for further information. 9391 0880 or wsba@bigpond.com

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Newsletter No. 4

WSBA congratulates James Audley, David Cutroni and Tegan Berry on being selected to represent Victoria 1 and Jacob McNally selected to represent Victoria 2, at the CP Maddern Under 19 Carnival in Launceston,Tasmania from the 3rd - 6th July.

The teams will be managed by Pauline and Liz Martin, WSBA thanks them for their volunteer commitment to Badminton in Victoria. Jen Kang, another WSBA Coach will coach Victoria 2.

Read all the news from Badminton Victoria in the May issue of "Around the Courts"

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Good Luck to our WSBA State Pennant Team for the opening rounds this weekend.

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Congratulations on reaching 70, Pat Taylor!

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Congratulations to WSBA Shuttlebusters, winners of B Grade and WSBA Sharks, winners of C Grade at Ballarat Vets on the 10th & 11th April.

 

View the photos:-

http://www.wsbaonline.com/PhotoGallery/tabid/374/AlbumID/885-87/Default.aspx

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Badminton Victoria recently held its annual Awards Night at Kooringal Golf Club in Altona.

WSBA is the 2009 Association of the Year, Michelle Rigg is the 2009 Coach of the Year and Karen Audley is the 2009 Volunteer of the Year.

Congratulations to all!

Badminton Australia also presented Pat Daw and Dianne Carter with an Award of Merit for services to Badminton.

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WSBA congratulates Victoria 1 on their win in the June Bevan Trophy.

Victoria 2 was in the playoff for 3/4 and of the five games Vic 2 won, our WSBA Junior Squad members James, Eric and Jen were in four of those winning combinations, a great effort!

We also congratulate Eric, who was the Runner Up in the Plate Singles.

What a wonderful performance from our players who were under the guidance of Pauline & Liz Martin, the Coach and Manager of Vic 2.

You can check out all the results via these links:-

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=4DE32A35-DEC2-46B8-98BF-AFF5486E0347

The Individual Events will follow the June Bevan Trophy, just follow the link when the individual events get underway on April 7th.

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=9E5AF312-DF83-4A6C-A0BB-75FAB2BC49B2

 

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WSBA has hired the Gymnasium at Bayview Street, opposite the Gellibrand Street intersection, on a Monday night from 7.00pm - 10.00pm.

This gives us access to three more courts.

For bookings, please ring 9391 0880.

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What a great three days of badminton!

Special thanks to Ron & Pat as Tournament Directors, Peter Griffin and Sandra David as our Referees and the umpires and line judges for their time and expertise. A special mention to Dave and Maurice who umpired many matches in our Graded events on Saturday and Sunday.

Congratulations to all players for their sportsmanship during the tournament.

 The results can be found via the following links:

 

Congratulations to Glenn Warfe who won the CMWong Trophy for the Best Performed Open Player.

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Les Crofts, who, as  the Mayor of the City of Altona, officially opened the Altona Badminton Centre in 1985, has passed away.

The WSBA Staff and Committee send condolences to June and Family on their loss.

Les and June were great supporters of badminton and donated the silver cup for the Open Men's Singles.

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The Schedule for Friday's play is available via the Tournament Software link.

A Grade will commence at 8.45am on Saturday with Mixed, followed by Singles (the singles should start at approximately 11.00am) and Doubles.

On Sunday, all B & C Grade matches will commence at 8.45am.

B Grade will commence with Singles, followed by Doubles (commencing at approximately 11.30am) and Mixed.

C Grade will commence with Doubles, followed by Singles (commencing at approximately 11.00am) and Mixed.

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Good Luck to Eric, James and Jen, our WSBA Squad players, who have been selected to represent Victoria 2 at th 2010 U17 Australasian Carnival.

Thanks to Pauline, as the Team Coach and Liz, as the Team Manager for volunteering their time to support Junior Badminton in Victoria.

Follow the progress of our Victorian Teams via the following link:

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=4DE32A35-DEC2-46B8-98BF-AFF5486E0347

The Individual Events will follow the June Bevan Trophy, just follow the link when the individual events get underway on April 7th.

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=9E5AF312-DF83-4A6C-A0BB-75FAB2BC49B2

 

 

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There have been a couple of alterations to the B & C Grade Draws due to incorrect grading.

Check out your draw at

http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/tournament.aspx?id=F8133B1A-531C-4E5A-8F52-E16D45D3A4E5

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One of our Junior Squad players, Aidan Dang, has been selected to attend the "Youth Technology Expo" in Shanghai in July.

Aidan is now starting to work on his presentation. All of us at WSBA  hope you do very well, Aidan, and that you enjoy the experience and the opportunity.

 

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