01/01/2026
Happy New Year from Ballyclare Badminton Club! 🏸
Wishing all our players, families, and supporters a very happy holiday season and New Year - can’t wait to see you on court in 2026!💪🏸
As we welcome 2026, we want to take a moment to look back with pride on an incredible year for Ballyclare Badminton Club and to say a huge thank you to everyone who has been part of it.
From welcoming new members and hosting off-court social events, to busy club nights and growing junior sessions, it’s been fantastic to see so many players enjoying their badminton and developing their game. Whether you joined us on a Wednesday evening, a Saturday session, or picked up a racket for the first time - we’re delighted to have you as part of our badminton community 🙌
Thank you to all our players, sponsors, parents, volunteers, coaches, and supporters for making 2025 such a brilliant year.
👏 A special thank you to the small group of volunteers who consistently work hard behind the scenes. Their time, effort, and commitment often unseen, but without them the club simply wouldn’t be what it is today. We are incredibly grateful for everything they do to keep Ballyclare Badminton Club running so smoothly.
Here’s to an even bigger and better year ahead! 🎉🏸
As we look ahead to the New Year, we’re excited about what’s to come. New session dates will be posted very soon, so keep an eye on this page 👀
📸 Some Notable Highlights from the Year
✨ Welcoming lots of new members to the club.
✨ Combining the senior and junior club pages to reinforce a single, unified Ballyclare club identity.
✨ Launch of our new club shirt - We are so grateful to our very generous shirt sponsors.
✨ Fantastic turnout across all badminton sessions.
✨ Use of Sixmile Leisure Centre to ensure continuity of club nights when the school hall wasn’t available.
✨ Launch of new junior team identities — Ballyclare Panthers and Ballyclare Swifts.
✨ Junior players developing skills and confidence every week, with both junior clubs now at capacity and with growing waiting lists.
✨ Increased number of junior sessions — now running every Saturday throughout the month.
✨ Additional junior players feeding into the senior club nights and senior teams.
✨ Securing a new Ulster Badminton Development Squad for the region, introducing a new performance pathway and new opportunities for junior players.
✨ Junior representation in the U15 Ulster team for the first time under the new junior club format
✨ Participation of our U13 group in the Making Life Better Festival
✨ Additional coaches newly qualified through the BWF Shuttle Time programme
✨ Introduction of a new online system to help organise club events
✨ Successful partnership with Ulster Badminton’s Women in Sport programme.
✨ Launch or our regular ladies night.
✨ Fielding three teams in the Ulster Badminton Leagues — with fantastic performances and results so far.
✨ Fielding U15 and U17 teams in the Ulster Junior Leagues
✨ Senior representation for Ireland at the Nations Cup tournament in Spain
✨ Senior representation for Ireland Select Vs England at the Northumberland Masters.
✨ Winning East Antrim Men's League.
✨Fantastic 2nd place in the Gilbert Trophy.
✨ Competition across various closed, open, and masters tournaments nationwide
…and many more moments to be proud of - far too many to list here.
#2025
Forward
#2026
