2004-2005 team
The Adult Players
The teams veteran player and a fine ambassador for the sport.
Anne Lundie is a lovely and highly experienced player, and while not the most mobile of ladies she has the a repertoir of net shots to die for...
Academy Team Captain, Gabor Otyehel shown here on the right with our BBQs host Carol Nash.
Gabor plays also for Redhoods Badminton Club in their A Team in Division 1 of the Letchworth Badminton League.
Came into the sport thro his father being a caretaker of a school with 2 first class badminton courts to use privately weekends and a nearby youth club with x-county players as instructors.
Rachael Calver, a strong womens player, also member of Redhoods Badminton Club in their A Team Division 1 Letchworth League, first in offering assistance in setting up Academy and enthuisiastically encourages the youngsters in their proformance.
Sandra Masters, shown here with her husband, Paul, also a Redhoods A Team Division 1 Letchworth League player. Here we have a strong passionate player of the sport.
Sandra is the new Secretary to Academy ensuring things run as they should.
Here is Pete Whitley in the forground having a quick smoke. Pete is a Fully qualified St.Johns First Aider and purely a social player, althougth through Academy and my last minute drafting of him and an odd tournament, he is getting his legs as far as real matches go.
Our Young Players
Christopher Otyehel at his medal presentation.
Chris is one of the more experienced youngsters having first hand knowledge of the difficulties young players experience in trying to get into clubs the more conventional way.
As a strong individual player, dependant on the oppositions strength he quite often takes on the Adult partner role.
Megan receiving her medal. Megan being Academys only young female player had an exceptional year having improved tremendously.
Megan being no stranger to end of year tournaments and having attended Stevenage Centre of Badminton Excellence (SCOBE) coaching sessions has seen her rewarded by clubs taking her in as a full member, such as Redhoods and Feathers.
Nick is also a member of SCOBE where his coaching takes place.
Nick has also come on well in his first year with Academy showing great determination to fight for every point and greater intelligence in the placing of his shots.
Nick now also plays for Feathers Badminton Club.
Craig shown here receiving his medal.
Althougth Craig has not had as much of an opportunity to play as some of the other younger players, he has shown good competant skills and like most young players needs to develop his consistancy of play which only comes with practice.
Appreciative thanks go out to Joeseph Caine who due to prior commitments could only play the odd match, a good first time out performance I may add.
Also to Dave Leslie and his strong supportive role in the matches he played.
