ISSUE

02
July
2015

2015 X-TRM Age Group

Inter Association Championships Results
U19

Runner up

U17 1

Runner up

U17 2

Winner Division 2

U15

Winner Division 1

U15 2

6th Place

U13

6th Place

U15 1 Division 1 Winner

2015 X-TRM Age Group Inter Association Champions

BNZ Award Winners

Oscar Guo - Junior Player
Vicki Copeland - Player of the Year
Karen Blank - Volunteer of the Year

Mid-year Round up

Inside this issue:

Mid-year Round Up
Event Information

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2015 is truly underway and what a season it has

across the age groups. Over 60 North Harbour players took part

been so far. We had three North Harbour peo-

in this event and our special thanks to all the coaches, managers

ple honoured at the Badminton New Zealand

and parent helpers that make this possible as without their help

2014 Awards. Vicki Copeland was awarded

we would not be able to send these teams.

senior player of the year, Oscar Guo junior player of

the year and Karen Blank volunteer of the year. This was fantastic recognition of our people and something we are extremely

The North Harbour Closed Championships are under way and

finals night for all grades scheduled for the 31st of July. This is a
new idea in which we will play all finals on the one night with

Development News

proud of.

Whats Up...

Our u23 players headed to Counties Manukau for the X-TRM NZ

for spectators and players. If you would like to see North Har-

u23 National Team and Individual Championships. North Har-

bour Badminton at its best come on down it all starts at 7pm

bour won the teams title for the 3rd consecutive year and our

Friday the 31st July.

NH Ladder Results

High Performance Update

second team finished 3rd. In the individual championships Dylan

Soedjasa won the mens singles, Anona Pak and her partner

Junior Reps Results

X-TRM NZ Inter-association

Whats Happening
Sponsors

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Glenn Cox
Karen Willins
Lisa Schmidt
Annabelle Galvez
Brock Matheson
Fanny Megahwati

Our ladder competitions have now finished with the following

results: Congratulations to all the winners .

from Auckland Lilian Shih won the womens doubles and Maika
Philips and Anona won the mixed doubles. All in all, a great
tournament for North Harbour players.
Badminton North Harbour hosted the X-TRM New Zealand

Singles

Brock Matheson

Mens Doubles

Mark Chee and Wei Re Chua

Womens Doubles

Connie Cheng and Alier Lee

Mixed Doubles

Edwin Lau and Aviva Pak tied with

Championships during Queens Birthday weekend and history

Zhihao Xie and Tracey Cui

was made with 14 year old Oscar Guo winning the mens singles
defeating another Harbour player Brock Matheson in the final.

Staff

umpires and the bar and kitchen open to provide a great night

Vicki Copeland regained her womens singles title, and combining with Anona was runner up in the womens doubles. Maika
and Anona were runners up in the mixed doubles, so once again
Harbour players are featuring at the highest level of New
Zealand Badminton.
Our senior representative teams are all well underway with
Division 4, Masters, Veterans and Super Veterans teams all
performing well. These teams all enjoy their competitions and if

The third quarter will see the commencement of our interclub

competitions, more schools competitions, junior ladders and the
continuation of all our squad trainings and holiday programs.
Certainly a busy time for all of us at Badminton North Harbour
and we look forward to seeing you on court.
Please remember you can book courts at Badminton North
Harbour (Bond Crescent) or at the Active Badminton Centre
(Apollo Drive) with both venues offering you great courts and
facilities.

you would like to be part of these teams let us know as we will

If you have recently been to the Bond Crescent facility you will

Rebecca Goddard

be submitting teams for the 2016 season over the next few

notice we have completed the playing area with carpet tiles

Neville Howell

months.

which makes it a warmer and safer surface. We hope you all

Our junior teams travelled to Palmerston North in the first week

enjoy our facility as we believe its the best in the country.

of the school holidays and with challenges in driving conditions

I would like to thank all our supporters and in particular

managed to get there in time for the X-TRM New Zealand Inter-

X-TRM, Auckland Council, The Lion Foundation, NZCT, Pub Chari-

association Age Group Championships. Results were as follows:

ty and Foundation North as it is with their support we can pro-

u13: 6th, u15 1: 1st, u15 2: 6th, u17 1: 2nd, u17 2: 1st division 2;

vide you with the facilities and competitions we do. Please sup-

u19: 2nd. Once again teams performed well and we maintain

port all our sponsors whenever possible. You will find their

our position as one of the strongest associations in New Zealand

details in the hall whenever you are there.

Event Information
Primary School Team Challenge
During May we hosted the annual
Primary School Team Challenge.
Fourteen teams from around the
North Harbour region had a great
day of competition with Milford Primary not losing
any ties and rightfully named 2015 Primary Team
Challenge Champions. Congratulations to each
school that participated in this successful event.
X-TRM National Championships 2015
Badminton North Harbour was the venue host for
the X-TRM National Championships. The three
days of badminton played over Queens Birthday
weekend showcased the best badminton players
from around New Zealand.

North Harbour 13 Open

The North Harbour u13 Open was played on Sunday
24 May and saw a record entry of 65 players.
North Harbour players were very prominent in this
tournament and represented their association well.
Congratulations to Shaunna Li for winning the girls
doubles. This age group is continuously growing
and will be run over a full weekend in 2016.

Local Derby
The North Harbour junior representative teams
have participated in the Local Derby competition.
As a trial this year the ties were played over one
weekend to see if the format was better for players, coaches, managers and supporters instead of
the past format of 4 or 5 Sundays. A review will
take place to determine the format in the future.
This was a great build up to the X-TRM New Zealand

North Harbour Closed Championships

This year has seen an increase in the number of
players participating in the North Harbour Closed
Championships. We have set up the event to have
the finals all played on one night, 31 August with
Court 12 open for food and drinks and we encourage people to come down and watch some exciting
finals.

Inter-association Age Group Championships in Palmerston North.

Development News
This season has been a great time
for Badminton North Harbour, our
holiday programmes were at capacity in both morning and afternoon
sessions with some great new talent
appearing at them. From this we have had many
of the children come back wanting more badminton, which is great to see.

We look forward to seeing more children getting involved in

badminton and enjoying themselves while playing.

We have been delivering to a number of schools

throughout recent months ranging from Level 3
NCEA classes to beginner classes. We have just
started delivering to Glamorgan Primary School
which is a 6 week programme running through
KiwiSport. This is getting delivered to years 1 to
years 6 and some of the kids have only just started school in Term 3.
Our next school Holiday Programme is October
6th 9th, and smash club will be starting up in
term 4.

Whats Up at the Pro-Shop

North Harbour Ladder Results

We have had a great few months in the shop. Restringing has certainly been keeping all the staff busy as we endeavor
to keep everyone on court with their equipment in top condition. Please feel free to discuss appropriate string and
tension as it is certainly an important aspect of racquet performance. All our staff are players and will be happy to talk
with you on what is best.

SINGLES LADDER

Yonex continues to offer a number of great options in racquets, clothing and footwear with the 2015 range going really
well. Popular racquet models include Arc Saber 11, Nanoray 800 and Voltric 80 E-Tune.

3rd
Joe Prajogo
DOUBLES LADDER

X-TRM has now been in stock for 6 months and is offering a comprehensive range of racquets, bags and apparel. Prices
are truly excellent offering real value for money for a quality product.
As you will no doubt be aware we have recently opened a new store at the Active Badminton Centre where we can
offer you the same great products and services we do at the North Harbour Pro Shop. The shop in Apollo Drive is open
each day during the week from 5pm until 8pm plus Saturdays and
Sundays from 12pm until 5pm. We look forward to being of assistance to you.
We are currently running some promotions and these include:
20% off all Yonex Apparel and Footwear
10% off a new racket when you trade in your old broken one
There are some big savings on X-TRM clothing coming in August.
Lots of great deals for everyone so make sure you come in and see
us for all your badminton needs.
Please check out our face book page www.facebook.com/
badminton.proshop and we look forward to seeing you soon!

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1st

Brock Matheson

2nd

Jack Leonard

1st

Mark Chee and Wei Ren Chua

2nd

Brock Matheson and Maika Phillips

Liam Boyd and Ben Fernandez

WOMENS DOUBLES
1st

Connie Cheng and Alier Lee

2nd

Julie Anderson and Kaye Oliver

3rd
Bellina Colston and Tracy Taylor
MIXED DOUBLES
1st

Edwin Lau and Aviva Pak

Zhihao Xie and Tracey Cui

2nd

Jaimie Lancaster and Renee Cui

Shuttle Zone

High Performance Update

We have just completed a range of
age group tournaments. We had
good results with many NH players
reaching finals. The National team
event in Palmerston North had 60
North Harbour players competing and
the result was quite good considering it was some of
the players first time to attend. Instead of nerves and
tension they showed a die hard attitude and good
teamwork to help each other in order to win the
matches.
The junior development program has started their
Term 3 training session. We have more than 40 players attending this squad. We managed to produce
some new representative players who played well for
North Harbour in Local Derby and the X-TRM New
Zealand Inter-association Championships.
We also have a young squad 11 years old and below,
who train once a week (we will add more training
session in the future) to help North Harbour junior
development for the future. To give this group more
tournament experience we have Junior singles ladder
for them to compete in.

Junior Reps Results

At the moment we are preparing for Division 1 and 2

(Wisden and Slazenger Cup). These teams compete in
Invercargill on August 18 to 22nd.
In order to prepare the players we have Premier
League to give the players a tournament environment.
Once again a big thank you to our coaches, managers
and especially parent helpers who willingly spent
their time to accompany their children to Palmerston
North to cheer and prepare their food during the
tournament.

CONGRATULATIONS TO NORTH HARBOUR 3

for winning

BNZ INTER-ASSOCIATION DIVISION 4

2015 X-TRM Age Group

Inter Association Championships

U15 1 Division 1 Winner

Jason Wang, Joshua Feng, Edward Lau, Evan Wong,
Yvonne Wang, Tamara Otene, Shaunna Li, Christina
Yang, Catelyn Rozario, Haihong Yang, Rose Huang
Coach: Chris Bright

Manager: Lynne Otene

Chris Bright
Sarah Anderson
Zheran Li
Connie Cheng
Ken Li
Virginia Guntur
Paul Thompson Alier Lee
Max Wang
Tiffany Lee
Yifan Zhang
Alyssa Tagle
Kelly Ruff

X-TRM New Zealand Inter-association Championships

Badminton New Zealand this year changed the event that has in the past been the North Island Championships in
Palmerston North. It is now the National Championships with not only u15 & u17 age groups, but u13 & u19.
This meant more teams, players, coaches, managers and team helpers. North Harbour teams did extremely well
with four of our six teams on the podium.

U17 2 Division 2 Winner

Lara Herbst, Jenny Zeng, Sung Guen-Choi, Emma Wu,
Mark Zhang, Katie Zheng, Lucas Gao, Ellen Lea,
Peter Xie, Christina Du, Joshua Tan
Coach: Edwin Lau Manager: Cath Cunningham

U17 1 Division 1 Runners up

Jack Jiang, Virginia Guntur, Oscar Guo, Alyssa Tagle,
Naifan Chen, Charmaine Wu, Brendon Wang,
Yilan Sun, Edwin Lie, Gaea Galvez
Coach: Dylan Soedjasa Manager: Harvey Rozario

U19 Division 1 Runners up

Tigerson Cao, Selena Wu, Nicco Tagle, Sharon Wong,
Adam Lea, Deborah Yin
Manager: Lisa Schmidt Coach: Mani Abhinav
U15 2

6th Place

U13

6th Place

SPECIAL THANKS to all the coaches,

managers and parent help!!!
Callum Harfield, Chris Bright, Brock Matheson, Dylan
Soedjasa, Edwin Lau, Mani Abhinav, Karl Benzie,
Marianne and Ali, Lynne Otene, Grace Chan, Sau Fan Lau,
Cath Cunningham, Eric Liu, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, Yan Wang,
Linda Wang, Harvey Rozario, Carlyn Rozario, Jack Sun,
Lisa Schmidt, Kate Lea

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