The Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 22nd July, starting 8pm
Online meeting: https://meet.google.com/mkp-fbvu-ycf
Agenda and Reports can be found here
News
Opportunity: League Secretary
I will be stepping down from my role as League Secretary at the end of this season, and Badminton Essex is now looking for a successor.
The role is central to keeping the league running smoothly, and it’s a great way to contribute to the badminton community in Essex!
A role description is available here.
If you’d like to know more or are considering putting yourself forward, please contact me on league_sec@badmintonessex.co.uk
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Pratheek (Raff) Badrinath
ECBA League Secretary
SCC Teams for March 21st / 22nd
1st Team @ Chilwell Olympia
Philip Pahatouridis, Sam Pulikkottil, Alan Tu, James Wong, Oliver Wu
Sammy Chen, Alicia Chu, Emily Giles, Caitlin Kong
2nd Team @ Hart Leisure Centre, Fleet
Jack Hillsden, Nikhil Pulikkottil, Mohammed Adnaan Osmaan, Zac Pallier, Ravi Patel, Adrian Yong (Sat)
Catherine Bailey, Emily Chan, Vidhi Garg, Yoongeun Kwon, Tian Wu
3rd Team @ Middlesex Dome
Matthew Allum, Sidhaant Garg, Alex Horner, Joseph Kim, Jack Lau, Adam Sibley
Chandana Nagaraj (Sat), Harleen Nanda, Allison Pearson, Debbie Petrova, Srivarshini Prabu (Sun), Amy Zhang
4th Team @ Oundle School
Jack Adcock, Marcus Bowring, Nathan Burrell (Sun), Bryn Gilllard Simon Gilhooly, Samarth Parashar, Pawel Tomasewski (Sat),
Courtney Downey (Sat), Delish Khachane, Sarah Lawrence, Sophie Lepper (Sun), Claire Norton, Hannah Summons
Performance Coach Opportunity
Redbridge are recruiting a new Performance Coach to join their team.
Anyone that's interested can talk to Anthony McDonald (020 8498 1041 / badminton@rslonline.co.uk)
Candidates will be required to have the following:- Experience of successfully coaching and overseeing Performance programmes and County / National level players.
- Have a minimum of a Badminton England level 2 Coaching qualification.
- Be working towards or gain the Badminton England level 3 qualification
- Attended a Badminton England recognised child protection course (within the last 3 years)
- Have a current membership of the Badminton England Coaching Register
- Successfully completed and hold a current DBS check from Badminton England
Great day for Riverside
Players from Riverside had a great day at the Essex Senior Tier 4 on Sunday.
Sarah Lawrence and Claire Norton showed amazing determination to fight through three long sets to win the final, having already played a marathon semi final match. In doing so they gained some revenge for their team mates Holly and Hannah who had narrowly lost their semi final.
Fraser Bradshaw and Rob Clark cleverly adapted their tactics to recover from losing the first set of their semi final. Going onto dominate the second set. Unfortunately their opponent, who had earlier won gold in the XD, had to retire.
They nearly repeated the feat in the final losing just 22-20 in the second set.
Congratulations to all the Riverside medalists!
National Championships
Triple Champion - Nikhil
Huge congratulations to Nikhil Pulikkottil, who took all three titles at the U15 National Championships just before Christmas. Winning any National title is an amazing performance so to get the Grand Slam of titles is quite amazing.
SCC Teams for 17th / 18th Jan
The teams selected for the second round of matches in the Senior County Championship 2025/26 are;
First Team
Derby Arena, Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th
Alicia Chu, Emily Giles, Xinran Wei, Caroline Westley, Yoongeun Kwon
Philip Pahatouridis Mohammed Adnaan Osmaan, Sam Pulikkottil Kelvin Koon, Alan Tu, James Wong, Oliver Wu
Second Team
Cranleigh School, Sunday 18th
Emily Chan, Tian Wu, Caitlin Kong, Chloe Yong, Rosie Wong
Jack Hillsden, Mohammed Adnaan Osmaan, Nikhil Pulikkottil Ravi Patel, Adrian Yong, Wilson Lam, Zac Pallier
Third Team
Middlesex Dome, Saturday 17th
Catherine Bailey, Natasha Adkins, Harleen Nanda, Chandana Nagaraaj, Amy Zhang
Debbie Petrova,
Matthew Allum, Sid Garg, Alex Horner, Joseph Kim, Jack Lau, Adam Sibley
Fourth Team
Redbridge, Saturday 9th
Courtney Downey, Sophie Lepper, Debbie Petrova, Claire Page, Charvi Ramanujam, Hannah Summons, Sarah Yuen
Jack Adcock, Good luck everyone!
Level 2 Coaching Course in Southend
There is a "Coaches in Badminton at Level 2 – Club Specialism Module" available at Deanes School starting in February 2026.
Please see BE Event Bookings for details.
Essex Medals Galore at Masters Nationals
Congratulations to all the medal winners at the Masters National Championships this weekend;
- OD40 - Mark Law
- OD45 - Mohammed Munim & Nadeem Shokat
- WS50 & WD50 - Tracy Hutchinson
- OD50 - Ian Pearson & James Anderson
- WD50 - Lynne Swan
- OS55, OD55 and XD55 - Simon Gilhooly
- WS60, WD60 and XD60 - Allison Pearson
- WD60 - Sue Crompton & Viv Gillard
- XD60 - Sue Crompton
Key Diary Dates
- 07/11/2026 - SCC Round 1
- 30/01/2027 - SCC Round 2
- 20/03/2027 - SCC Round 3
See the Team Essex pages for details of Junior and Masters fixtures
Next League Matches
No matches scheduled in the next 15 days.