Under 14's Regional Qualification Tournament
The Yorkshire Qualification Tournament for the National Under 14's competition took place on the 27th January 2008 at Stokesley School in North Yorkshire.
With just short of 50 players taking part the competition was a great success and three teams from Stokesley and one from Danby have qualified for the national finals in London in March.
The final results are:
Boys:
1 Stokesley A
2 Stokesley B
3 Stokesley D
4 Stokesley C
Girls:
1 Stokesley C
2 Danby
3 Stokesley A
4 Featherstone A
5 Featherstone B
6 Featherstone C
7 Stokesley B
Thanks to Dan Chung, Di Hollows, Yvonne Jackson and Dmitrji Ledkov for refereeing the event and to Anthony Laffan for his organisational role.
The U14s competition is new this season and will run on a regional and national basis, aimed at mass participation competition. Teams can comprise up to 5 players with the format of the competition 3 v 3. The competition will be run on courts 12m x 6m (doubles badminton courts).