AOC SPORT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2023

DAY 1: Friday 14 April

After a few hours on the minibus, we arrived at the University of Nottingham and got settled into our accommodation for the weekend Yize Gao and Tomos Jenkins are our two students this year, both competing as part of the Eastern Badminton team, we spent Friday afternoon with our team members getting to know them and sizing-up the competition. The evening was spent enjoying the opening ceremony before an early night ready for matches tomorrow.

DAY 2: Saturday 15 April

A busy day for us today, so after a tasty breakfast we got ready for our first round of matches. By 3pm we are placing 2nd in our group of 4: we lost 3 games to 2 against the South West Region, won 4 games to 1 against

Yorkshire and Humberside, and won 4 games to 1 against the East Midlands Region.

Unfortunately we lost the play off match to South East Region team, 3 games to 2 - but we were the only team to take any games against them so that itself is a win!

DAY 3: Sunday 16 April

Yize has just won the 1st match (Men's singles) and a win from Hills Road (Women's singles) means we are now 2 - 0 up... Another win from Tomos and our CRC teammate in the Men's doubles! A clean sweep of 5-0 meaning we finished 3rd out of 9 and secured the Bronze medal!! Everyone heading home with big smiles after an excellent weekend!