National Leisure Centres Championships
Author: BADMINTON England
Date: 19 Sep 2006
Category: Comment
Sport Centres from all over England are entering the new Carlton National Leisure
Centres Championships, which is being staged in association with Central Sports.
But, if your centre hasn't already done so, there is still time to put in an
entry.
The deadline is October 1 and application forms are available from BADMINTON
England's Events Department on 01908 268400.
Initially, the Carlton National Leisure Centres Championships will be run using
either a league ladder or knockout competition (completed by Jan 31) before players
advance through the county (by March 14) and regional rounds (April 21-22) to
the finals.
The finals will be played at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes in
May.
The Championships is for players over 16 featuring all five events and there
is a veterans' section for over 50s featuring men's and women's doubles.
The Carlton National Leisure Centres Championships, in association with the UK's
No 1 specialist badminton retailer Central Sports of Coventry, is open to any
player who has NEVER played in a league badminton match at senior level.
The Championships are targeting every leisure centre in England - and the 2.5m
people who play badminton in them.
Toby Marcham, Dunlop Slazenger's Indoor Sports Marketing Manager, said: "The
event provides the perfect opportunity to support recreational badminton and it
complements Carlton's ongoing commitment to the game at elite level.
"As the World's No.1 specialist badminton brand Carlton is ideally positioned
to help ensure the Championships are a great success."
Darren Parks, BADMINTON England's Events Manager, said: "This is a great opportunity
for players at leisure centres to take on players from neighbouring centres in
a friendly competition.
"It provides a missing link in their badminton - and for the eventual winners
there will be the chance to visit the National Badminton Centre and to scoop some
quality prizes."
There will be local, county and regional rounds before the Championships reach
their final stages.
So get your centre to put in an entry ... you have two weeks to beat the deadline.
Entries so far:
1. Alsager Leisure Centre, Stoke-on-Trent
2. Amesbury Sports Centre, Amesbury, Wiltshire
3. Barr Beacon Language College Sports Centre, Walsall
4. Bedford College - Springs Sports Centre, Bedford
5. Bicester & Ploughley Sports Centre
6. Body and Mind Leisure, The Canterbury High School, Kent
7. Brackley Leisure Centre, Northamptonshire
8. Bulmershe Leisure Centre, Reading, Berkshire
9. Burntwood Leisure Centre, Chasetown, Staffordshire
10. Caryford Fitness & Leisure, Castle Cary, Somerset
11. Castle Green Centre, Dagenham, Essex
12. Chipping Norton Leisure Centre, Oxfordshire
13. Colfe's Leisure Centre, Lee, London
14. Fakenham Sports & Fitness Centre, Norfolk
15. Fearns Sports & Leisure Centre, Bacup, Lancs.
16. Friary Grange Leisure Centre, Lichfield, Staffordshire
17. Great Dunmow Leisure Centre, Essex
18. The Gryphon Leisure Centre, Sherborne, Dorset
19. Hambleton Leisure Centre, Northallerton, Yorkshire
20. Handsworth Grange School, Sheffield
21. Hart Leisure Centre, Fleet, Hampshire
22. Hartsdown Leisure Centre, Margate, Kent
23. Havant Leisure Centre, Hampshire
24. John Atkinson Sports Centre, Warwick
25. Jubilee Centre, Stanground College, Peterborough
26. Keynsham Leisure Centre, Bristol
27. Kimberley Leisure Centre, Nottingham
28. Leisure at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
29. Lordswood Leisure Centre, Chatham, Kent
30. Mapperley Sports Village, Nottingham
31. Meadowside Leisure Centre, Kidbrooke
32. Neale-Wade Sports Centre, March, Cambridgeshire
33. Newmarket Leisure Centre, Suffolk
34. National Indoor Arena, Community Hall, Birmingham
35. OBA Millennium Cultural Centre, Oldham
36. Peacehaven Leisure Centre, East Sussex
37. Royston Leisure Centre, Hertfordshire
38. Rushcliffe Arena, Nottingham
39. Shard End Community Centre, Birmingham
40. Shenfield Sports Centre, Brentwood, Essex
41. Shepton Mallet Leisure Centre, Somerset
42. Stevenage Arts and Leisure Centre, Stevenage
43. Sutton Bonnington Sports Centre, (Leicestershire)
44. Tewkesbury Sports Centre, Gloucestershire
45. Tidworth Leisure Centre, Wiltshire
46. Thame Leisure Centre, Oxfordshire
47. The Triangle, Burgess Hill, West Sussex
48. University of Huddersfield, Sports Hall, Huddersfield
49. Waltheof Leisure Centre, Sheffield
50. Westgate Badminton Centre, Winchester, Hampshire
51. Whitby Leisure Centre, Yorkshire
52. Woking Leisure Centre, Surrey
53. Wymondham Leisure Centre, Norfolk
