BADMINTONBADMINTON VICTORIA VICTORIA ‘Around‘Around the the Courts’ Courts’ February 2013 In this issue... From BV Under 13’s Under 17’s VJB Tournament VicHealth News Court Officials BA News Upcoming Tournaments Sidelines - 1983 Adidas News Recent Results Coaches Corner BADMINTON VICTORIA “Around The Courts” Upcoming Badminton Events Volume 6 : Issue 1 Box 4, MSAC, Aughtie Drive February 16-17 Geelong Juniors Geelong Albert Park, Victoria, 3206 T: (03) 9686 4777 February 23-24 Geelong Veterans Geelong F: (03) 9686 6999 E: [email protected] February 24 Coaching Course (Level 1) Ballarat March 2 Umpires Course MSAC March 3 WSBA Juniors Altona March 16-17 Ballarat Open Ballarat W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic February 2013 | BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ From The BV Office State Directors Message Welcome to another big year in the world of Badminton. This year sees another full tournament season with both team and individual events scheduled throughout the year. The full calendar can be found on the BV website. Victoria will again be hosting the Li-Ning Victorian International tournament at the end of June, as well as the popular State Pennant & Doubles league. This year we are trying a “match play training” program called “Protech Team Victoria @ MSAC” this program is aimed at players who are just out of junior ranks (18-25 range) with a few elite players to push the standard of the younger players. As well as many opportunities to compete, there are also many coaching courses throughout the year for you to get involved in. Again these are detailed in the event calendar on the BV website. Contact coaching coordinator Michelle Rigg, for more information: [email protected]. We can arrange officiating courses on a needs basis; all you have to do is contact the court official’s secretary, Fred Stanlake for details: [email protected] Badminton Victoria is very pleased to have Li-Ning as our major sponsor for the Li-Ning Victorian International, Victorian Graded & the All School Badminton Championships. We would also like to welcome Protech as a new sponsor for State Pennant & Doubles League, Junior State Titles and our new program “Protech Team Victoria @ MSAC” which will assist players just out of junior ranks to transition into senior/elite players. We would like to thank MSAC for providing courts for this program as sponsorship and Epsilon Australia for again printing our annual calendar. The BV staff and BV board would like to be able to visit more member associations throughout the year, so if you have an Annual General Meeting or Committee meeting coming up during the year and would like to have one of us attend, please don’t hesitate to contact us at the BV office. We can go through the programs we run, programs we could assist your association to conduct, funding opportunities and whatever is important to your association. Front Cover: (Top) Australian Under 13’s - Peter Roberts Victoria 1 & NSW Thunder State Director (Bottom) Australian Youth Olympic Badminton Team W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic February 2013 | 2 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ The Passing Of Alan Walsh Alan became Vice President of the Western Suburbs Badminton Association in 1982 and was the President from 1983 until 1988, during which time he and his Committee negotiated with the Altona City Council and were successful in obtaining the lease of the Altona Badminton Centre exclusively for Badminton. This involved Alan attending the regular fortnightly council meetings for some years prior to the approval of the badminton centre. Alan played with West Newport and Westgate Uniting Church clubs for many years. Since leaving the committee, Alan has been a regular visitor and supporter of the association and will be sorely missed. Our thoughts are with Joy and their children at this time. Elite Player Management Workshop In early 2013 Badminton Australia successfully held the ‘Elite Player Management Workshop’ headlined by renowned international coach Andy Wood. The workshop attracted coaches from right across Australia to Maribyrnong College for the day long program. Australian National coach Lasse Bundgaard and Exercise Physiologist Wynter Chan also presented during the workshop. Wynter worked with the National Badminton Squad in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic Games and provided a valuable insight in correct training techniques. It was fantastic to see such good numbers attend the workshop, with 40+ participants over the two day event. W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic February 2013 | 3 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ Australian Under 13 Championships Interstate Series Regional Teams Challenge 1. Victoria 1 1. Badminton Academy of Victoria 2. New South Wales Thunder 2. WSBA 3. Victoria 2 3. NSW Kumpoo 4. New South Wales Lightning 4. Warrnambool Whales 5. Badminton Geelong 6. NSW Dash Individual Events Boys Singles William Chau (VIC) Girls Singles Jodee Vega (NSW) Boys Doubles William Chau & Elton Zhang (VIC) Girls Doubles Victoria He & Jodee Vega (NSW) W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic February 2013 | 4 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ 2013 Under 17 National Championships - State Team Badminton Victoria & Victorian Junior Badminton are pleased to announce the two State Teams that have been selected to compete in the 2013 Under 17 National Championships. Congratulations to all the players selected! Team One Janice Au Blake Haggerty Teresa Chan Eddie Luk Joy Lai Kunal Patil Alice Lorincz John Taing Adriana Phan Eric Qi Andre Zopf Coach: Pauline Martin Manager: Gary Sapwell Umpire: David Cromie Team Two Tylah Bruhn Philip Audley Chloe Chen Calvin Hua-Ching Clara Chen David Kang Samantha Lee Jacob Schueler Lily Rigg Ernest Yam Coach: Craig Booley Manager: Ru Wen Clarnette Umpire: Margaret Anderson Play By The Rules Posters Free posters for your club! If your club would like some Play by the Rules posters, flyers, respect cards or postcards to promote safe, fair and inclusive sport in your new member kits or to put up around your clubhouse, simply go to the Play By The Rules resources section, download what you’d like and print out as many as you want. Play By The Rules also have A0 sized posters available which can be printed out and put up in stadiums or on fencing around playing fields – email [email protected] to get the printer files for these posters. W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic February 2013 | 5 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ VJB Junior Tournament (U13 & U17) Clockwise From Top Left: Nalini Kuhanandha / Irene Chau, Kunal Patil, Joy Lai, Adriana Phan / Eddie Luk, Angela Yu / Jack Yu, Marcus Kong / Ryan Venpin W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic February 2013 | 6 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ VicHealth Funding BV has just recently completed 18 month SSAPP report to VicHealth, below is the feedback we received from our Project officer Shelley Salter. In the first 18 months of SSAPP Badminton Victoria has stepped up the work of PICSAR, through education, consultation and showing a genuine commit to inclusion and participation of CALD communities through a range of formats. Congratulations to BV for engaging champions of change including Board members attending the SSAPP course as well as having several clubs, coaches and associations being made aware and leading the inclusion agenda. Having 37 coaches undergo cultural awareness and inclusion training is a great achievement, in partnership with the other SSAs involved. Your community consultation and partnerships continue to be a strength of your work, with regular meetings leading to new programs in Hampton and now Rowville. Congratulations for leading the way and establishing a self-sustaining program in Geelong with more opportunities for translating programs like this in other locations. The positive community engagement approach will continue to bring about cultural change as others see the promotion of your success. Thank you for your feedback regarding the SSAPP support mechanisms, and your willingness to engage and learn with other sports in the workshops and learning circle forums. It's great that you've identified the inclusive coaching and Board relationship resources as a useful reference point. I will also aim to meet with BV more regularly to help address the challenges, find opportunities and celebrate the wins along the way. I look forward to the year ahead, as your staff and Board continue to influence coaching modules, organise further Board training and initial officials training, and your website shows the stories that celebrate success Well done BV on your SSAPP story so far and all the best for 2013. If any clubs or associations are interested in facilitating new CALD Program, please contact Brent Gutterson anytime to discuss on [email protected] Official Australian Li-Ning Supplier The official supplier / distributor / agent of Li-Ning in Australia is PK Sports! Telephone: 1300 722 867 Email: [email protected] Website: www.pksports.com.au W: badmintonvic.com.au F: facebook.com/badmintonvic T: twitter.com/baddyvic February 2013 | 7 BADMINTON VICTORIA ‘Around the Courts’ COCTales The second issue of Coctales was released by the BWF in late Decemeber 2012. Since the last issue the most important event on the BWF’s calendar was the Olympic Games. There have of course been many other events going on and the BWF have recently had a productive Events Working Group meeting and a Referees’ Fast Track workshop. There are some fantastic articles is this edition including: Torsten Berg’s Olympic Report Ian Williamson’s article on the Oceania Badminton Tournament Circuit Isabelle Jobard overview on Female Technical Officials To read the newsletter head to own website and look under Development > Court Officials Umpires Courses When: 24th February 2013 Where: Ballarat Cost: $50 Non-members.