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.