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11th March 2010

Nottinghamshire Inter-School County Badminton Competitions 2010

The County stages of the Centre Parcs National Inter-Schools Badminton Championships were held on on 4 & 8 February 2010.

First up were the Year 10/11 Girls and Boys finals and, in only its second year of running, there was an impressive turn out with all nine partnerships represented following local qualification events. Competition was going to be tough.

In the Girls competition, the pool stages saw all but two schools win at least one match. In the end, Fernwood School and the Nottingham Girls High School won their pool stages to go into the final and Minster School and Elizabethan School finished second. In the final, Nottingham Girls High School won convincingly 5-0 and progressed through to the regional stages in March.

In the Boys competition, the pool stages were a fiercely fought competition with Minster School just pipping Southwolds School by three matches to two. Nottingham High School also qualified for the final after winning four matches against Colonel Frank Seeley School’s three matches. The final had some close games, one of which finished 20-21, but in the end Nottingham High School came out on top becoming County champions and progressing through to the regional stages.

Next up were the Year 7/8/9 finals. Unfortunately, with a late withdrawal from one school that had qualified in both the Boys and Girls finals, there were only eight partnerships represented. However, with both Nottingham High Schools involved again, there were still nine teams in each event and tough pool stages to be completed first.

In the Girls competition, a close contest eventually saw Minster School and Brunts School win their pool stages and progress into the final, whilst George Spencer School and the Nottingham Girls High School progressed into the bronze medal match. The finals had some close games but in the end Brunts School won with Minster School in the silver medal position. Nottingham Girls High School took the bronze medal.

The Boys contest was just as competitive with Minster School and Elizabethan School winning their pool stages and the Nottingham High School and Ashfield School playing off for bronze. The very strong Elizabethan School side won their match with Minster School having to settle for silver. In the 3rd/4th play off match, Ashfield School fought off strong competition from the Nottingham High School to finishing in bronze medal position.

The winning schools (Brunts, Elizabethan, Nottingham High School and Nottingham Girls High School) went through to the next round of competition to take place on 1 March 2010 at Nottingham University.

NISC Regional Finals Results - 1 March 2010 at Nottingham University

Nottingham Girls High School won Key Stage 4 Regional finals (Girls).
Elizabethan School, Bassetlaw won Key Stage 3 Regional finals (Boys).
Both schools will go through to play at Centre Parcs in the National Finals

Well done Nottinghamshire.


The first County grassroots finals for years 7/8/9 was held on 10 February 2010. This was aimed at those schools finishing second in the school sports partnership stages of the National schools event or the next best placed team that met the criteria of “no county or club league players”.

The format was the same as for the national inter-schools competition to help Sports Partnerships integrate their first round competitions and to also help pupils progress and develop along the competition pathway, some of whom might eventually be involved in the National event in future years.

The finals were well attended with teams represented in seven of the school sports partnerships and for some of the pupils it was only their second or third experience of badminton competition. Matches were very close.

Southwolds School and Manor School won the pool stages of the Girls event and the Grove School and Kirkby School were runners up. The finals saw Southwolds School win against Manor School. Kirkby School took the bronze medal.

In the Boys competition, Southwolds School and Arnold Hill School won their pool stages and Bramcote Park School and Serlby Park School were runners up. The finals saw Arnold Hill School win against Southwolds School. Serlby Park School took the bronze medal.

A big thank you to all the volunteers that supported the finals again this year including sports leaders from South Notts College - without them the finals would not have been possible.

Elaine Spray
Badminton Development officer

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