19 March 2025
The Nationwide Faculties Badminton Championships will return once more this yr following its post-Covid revival 12 months in the past and the most effective younger badminton gamers from across the nation will battle it out for nationwide honours.
Right here is all you’ll want to learn about this yr’s occasion:
When will it happen?
The occasion will tackle Saturday twenty ninth March and Sunday thirtieth March.
The place will it happen?
The occasion will happen on the Nationwide Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes.
What classes are there?
There are 4 classes: KS3 (college years seven to 9) Ladies, KS3 Boys, KS4 (college years 10 to 11) Ladies and KS4 Boys.
What colleges can be there?
There can be one college for every of the 4 classes from every of the eight areas colleges are cut up into.
What are the eight areas?
The eight areas, which even have their very own color, are: Yorkshire & North East (gentle blue), North West (crimson), East Midlands (orange), West Midlands (purple), East (yellow), London & South East (inexperienced), South Central (white) and South West (darkish blue).
How did the faculties get there?
The colleges competing on the occasion could have gained a sequence of occasions at native, county and regional degree to get there.
Who gained final yr?
In each the KS3 and KS4 Ladies classes, Kendrick Faculty from the South Central area took the crown.
Wilson’s Faculty from London and South East gained the KS3 Boys event and Studying Faculty from South Central win the KS4 Boys occasion.
What number of colleges took half within the run of to this yr’s occasion
Final yr 280 colleges took half and this yr that quantity is over double!
Different issues to notice
Every area has its personal color (see above) and their very own theme track that totally different colleges will come out to.
Louise Hewitt, Badminton England’s younger individuals supervisor, stated: “Placing on the occasion is nice.
“The typical age of a junior (enjoying badminton) is 14, which we need to be a lot decrease, so a giant push of our technique is to get younger individuals concerned, and to do this, we should begin at colleges.
“This yr’s occasion is totally inclusive as each college within the nation had the chance to participate.
“If we are able to exhibit progress from final yr, which we’ve completed, if we are able to exhibit success, if we are able to showcase constructive tales, then the occasion is simply going to go from power to power and hopefully it would imply will decide up a company sponsor.”