Junior social sessions 2025
Just a reminder to parents that our junior social sessions are now running each Wednesday evening from 6-7.30pm. Junior members play for free, with friends and parents welcome to play for a nominal fee of $5.
Junior coaching season 2025
Bunbury and Districts Badminton Association is pleased to
announce details of our 2025 Junior coaching season.
This year, our volunteer coaching team will be Rosemary
Smith, Robert Italiano and Bill Nimmo.
Rosemary is a primary teacher of more than 40 years’ experience
who has achieved a number of coaching/assessment qualifications that include
ShuttleTime coach, Foundation level coach and an ATAR assessor for Badminton
WA. Rosemary is also a Life Member of our Association.
The evergreen Robert has been a junior coach for more than 50
years, a Life Member of our Association, past President and has a wealth of
knowledge coaching players - young and not so young - to achieve new badminton
skills and improve on their existing ones. He is one of the founding members of
our Association and is most often accompanied by his effervescent sidekick and
wife, Minnie, also a Life Member of our Association.
Bill has recently settled in Bunbury after decades of mentoring
badminton players at his former club in Kalgoorlie. He is a qualified
ShuttleTime coach and is passionate about passing on his love of the game to
young and young at heart.
All of our coaching team have current Working with Children
certification.
We also hope to rely on some volunteer parents to assist so please don’t be shy in offering to help.
Dates for the commencement of our 2025 coaching season are as
follows:
"Come and Try/Registration"-Wednesday 26th March 2025
from 6-7.30pm.
"Come and Try/Registration" Wednesday 2nd April 2025
from 6-7.30pm.
First coaching night-Wednesday 9th April 2025 from 6-7.30pm.
All junior players are to be registered members by the 9th April
2025. Notice of when membership for 2025/26 opens will be announced shortly.
Junior membership for 2025 remains at $150 for the membership
year-1st April 2025 to 31st March 2026.
Membership includes:
·
Weekly coaching during school terms two and three.
·
A windup tournament (or windup event depending on numbers) at
the end of the coaching season.
·
Affiliation with Badminton Australia through our affiliation
with Badminton WA with associated benefits.
·
Free weekly junior social sessions for the bulk of the
membership year outside of the coaching season (subject to suitably qualified
staff available to supervise)
·
Free entry to country and Metro team tournaments if selected to
represent Bunbury.
We look forward to welcoming past junior members as well as new players
to our 2025 junior season.
Nigel Smith
President,
Bunbury and Districts Badminton Association.
JUNIORS BADMINTON PROGRAM 2024
Times:
Age 7-18 : (Wed) 6pm – 7.30pm . (Age group 7-11 start at 5.30pm and go through to 6.45pm). Organised coaching takes place during term 2 and 3 of the school year.
Two "Come and Try"/Registration nights to be held on Wednesday 20th and 27th March from 6pm-7.30pm.
Registration is via Junior member registration
The first coaching session for 2024 for our Juniors starts at 6pm on Wednesday the 17th of April at the Bunbury Badminton Centre.
JUNIORS BADMINTON PROGRAM 2023
Times:
Age 7-18 : (Wed) 6pm – 7.30pm . (Age group 7-11 start at 5.30pm and go through to 6.45pm). Organised coaching takes place during term 2 and 3 of the school year. The first coaching session for 2023 for our Juniors starts at 6pm on Wednesday the 5th of April at the Bunbury Badminton Centre.
All parents and budding young players are invited to attend. Membership details were handed out at our 'Come and Try' session recently, the 2nd of which is on the 28th April. Parents are asked to go to https://www.revolutionise.com.au/bdba/ to complete their child's membership and pay the fee of $130 for the season.
Enquiries please call Russell Richards on 0417938222
JUNIORS BADMINTON PROGRAM 2021
Times:
Age 8-18 : (Wed) 6:00 – 7:30pm . Organised
coaching takes place during term 2 and 3 of the school year. The
first coaching session for 2021 for our Juniors starts at 6pm on Wednesday the
21st April at the Bunbury Badminton Centre.
All parents and budding young players are invited to attend. Membership forms were handed out at our 'Come and Try' sessions recently but you are still welcome to start on our first night. Parents are asked to also go to https://www.revolutionise.com.au/bdba/ to complete their child's membership and pay the fee of $130 for the season.
Enquiries please call Robert Italiano at 0417 990 431
