Senior County Badminton

Tom Ashford has asked me to forward the following:

Morning all,

 

Hope you are all well and enjoying the badminton season as it comes to a close!

 

I am excited to announce some changes regarding the Dorset Badminton Senior Squad for next season (2019/2020).

 

Attached is a draft document showing the changes we will be making to training programmes, team selection and dates for the diary.

 

I am also very grateful to welcome our new Dorset Senior Squad Secretary - Justine Young.

 

We will also be introducing several coaches to conduct the training sessions to give different variations and teaching styles to help players improve and become more confident when competing. Both myself and the coaching team are meeting within the next few weeks to finalise the document before introducing it out our trials date in June 2019 which will be confirmed shortly.

 

The reason I am contacting you now as we have a deadline fast approaching where I have to inform Badminton England on whether we would like to introduce a Dorset 4th team into the ICC for next year. I believe we currently have enough players to represent the county over 4 teams next year should we try and include a greater catchment of players to join the senior squad.

 

At this stage, I need to know your intentions and likely availability to be part of the squad for next season so I can roughly work out whether we will have enough players to enter a 4th team. I would need to know this by Saturday 30th March 2019.

 

I completely appreciate that the start of next season is a long way off and circumstances may change however, if you could give me a rough educated guess on whether you'd like to be a part of the senior squad for next season based on the attached document, this would be incredibly useful for me. If you can commit to the matches but not the training programme, then please state that on your reply.

 

If I do not receive a reply from you, I will assume that you are not interested. If I have missed anyone, please forward this email on to any interested players.

 

Looking forward to hearing from you very soon!

 

Kind regards,

Tom Ashford

 

Dorset Badminton Association Senior Squad Manager

07870345073

 



Attachment: Dorset Senior County - Provisional Plan.pdf