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Harry
Turnbull
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Harry started to coach
badminton to his daughter Laura and some of her friends, approximately 17 years
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Over the years Harry has continued to coach any youngsters
willing to attend his sessions on Tuesday and Thursday
evenings. His ambition was to take the game of badminton
into the primary schools and this year this has been made
possible with the help from the other dedicated coaches
listed on this page.
Harry explains," I missed
out on junior badminton when I went through the school
system in Hawick and never started playing the game until
the 5th year at the High School. Over the years I've coached
many youngsters. I was very proud to have coached Ewan
Godfrey to winning the Borders Schools under 16's Boys
Singles Title for two consecutive years. Badminton is a
great fun game to play and it's terrific that we have
managed to take badminton into some of the primary schools
in Hawick and Denholm this season. I would like to see a
coach in every school but that is simply not possible
without another couple of coaches. I will be looking to
recruit more help for next season." |
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| Colin
Blaikie
Colin assists Harry with the Tuesday evening coaching
sessions and has has coached P4-P7 children at Drumlanrig
Primary School. He has also introduced the game to
pre-school youngsters at Drumlanrig. |
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Fiona
Scott
Fiona coaches at Wilton Primary School.
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Fiona began coaching at
Trinity Primary School in the 1980's, along with Steve
Rodgers, while also assisting her dad, Alan Bailey, coach
the High School kids of the same era.
Having started her own
badminton career at Stirches Primary School Fiona continued
at the High School before joining Wilton Badminton Club
where her best achievement was coming runner up in the
Border Handicap Tournament of 198? Where she and her dad
were walloped in an epic final by Scott Beattie and Linda
Knowlson.
Fiona told the HAWICKbadminton website: "I was never going to be the best player
in the world but that's the great thing about badminton. It
doesn't matter what level you play at it's still competitive
and highly enjoyable at the same time. A great way to keep
fit!
Following an absence
from the sport due to work commitments Fiona has now began
coaching again at Wilton Primary School, assisted by her
nephew Ewan Godfrey, where she has been bowled over by the
enthusiasm of her group. "All the kids at Wilton have
improved since the start and are keen to learn more," she
added. "We only have an hour on a Friday and we have to
chase them out at the end of the lessons as they all want to
keep playing. That's what I call success!" |
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| Craig
Thom Craig
coaches at Burnfoot Primary School and also assists at the
Tuesday evening coaching sessions. |
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Laura
Turnbull
Laura assists her dad, Harry with the Tuesday and Thursday
evening coaching sessions. |
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| Tracey
Kirkpatrick
Tracey coaches at Denholm Primary School. |
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Tracey started to play
badminton at Hawick High School in 1982 under the guidance
of the late Mr Dickson who was the schools Religious
Education teacher, she fondly remembers being taken to an
exhibition match at the Tait Hall in Kelso which included
Dan Travers (former Commonwealth Games gold and European
bronze medallist and now a Scotland High Performance Coach)
and that was it she was hooked. Tracey continued to play
through her school years and then into the Hawick clubs but
like may people going off to study meant time away from the
sport at a local level.
Tracey returned to the sport as a
player at Hawick’s Wilton Badminton Club in 1999 and in the
2002 season she also became a member at Jedburgh Badminton
Club, where in addition to playing she also began coaching.
At Jedburgh Badminton Club Tracey takes part in sessions
with all age groups from P2’s to 2nd year High School pupils
and gets great enjoyment from seeing the players game
develop.
Tracey lives in Denholm and when tragedy struck
the village school in April 2006 with it being burnt to the
ground Tracey then though that when the school is rebuilt it
will have a new state of the art games hall that would be
ideal for playing and coaching badminton in and she was not
wrong the new school and the games hall are fantastic, she
now does coaching session with P4’s to P7’s at the school
on a Friday afternoon. Tracey says ‘the sessions are great,
the pupils all have different characters and they each take
away different things from the sessions. My primary goal
for the sessions are that the pupils have fun with the game
and we certainly achieve this’. |
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