About Badminton Manawatū

Staff

Manawatu Badminton Association Staff

The MBA employs three staff members, who are responsible for developing the sport and delivering the large range of badminton activities offered in the Manawatu throughout the year:

Sandra Lynch

Community & Development Manager

Joshua Curry

Shuttle Time Coaching Officer

Cassandra Feasey

Events and Activation Officer

Coaches

Badminton Manawatu are delighted and thankful to have many coaches with broad range of both playing and coaching experience. Many of our coaches volunteer their time to train our Development Squad and Junior Rep Squad players and have done so for many years.

Some of our coaches are available for private coaching, which can be organised directly with the coach you wish to engage. Please use the contact information below to get in touch with a coach about their availability for private sessions.

Every coach on this page is a Badminton Manawatu Accredited Coach. This means that Badminton Manawatu endorse them as a coach and have conducted background and police vetting. Additionally, these coaches have agreed to abide by the Badminton NZ Code of Ethics, a copy of which is available below.

Josh Curry

Phone: N/A

Coaching qualifications: BWF Level 1. Shuttle Time Tutor & Coach.

Coaching experience: 13 years. Manawatu u13s, u15s, u17s, u19s. Senior Div 3. Coaching in Schools. Club Coaching.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory: Coaching the u15 team to a 4th place finish at Nationals.

Private coaching: Unavailable.

Hourly rate: N/A

Cassandra Feasey

Cassandra Feasey

Phone: 020 4085 8803

Coaching qualifications: Shuttle Time Coach.

Coaching experience: 6 years. Manawatu u13s, u15s. Development Squad.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory:

Private coaching: Yes.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

Alan Li

Phone: 021 356 808

Coaching qualifications: BWF Level 1.

Coaching experience: 1 year. Manawatu u13s.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory: Guiding the Manawatu Frogs u13 team to 5th in their division at 2023 Nationals. Getting my daughter into badminton.

Private coaching: Yes.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

Sandra Lynch

Cassandra Feasey

Phone: 022 097 9499

Coaching qualifications: BWF Level 1. Shuttle Time Tutor & Coach.

Coaching experience: 25+ years. Ireland u17 squad. NZ u15 squad. Central Region u17 rep squad. Manawatu u13s, u15s, u17s, u19s. Senior Div 3. Coaching in Schools.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory: Coaching u17 Irish team at the European Champs in Turkey. Taking Manawatu juniors to play in the Queens Birthday tournament against Hawke’s Bay. Enjoying seeing players develop on their junior journey.

Private coaching: Maybe.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

Christina Moon

Phone: N/A

Coaching qualifications: None.

Coaching experience: Manawatu u13s.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory: It’s fantastic for me to see our new players so excited about playing, developing new skills, making new friendships and hopefully starting a lifelong love of badminton.

Private coaching: Maybe.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

Chris Sharrock

Chris Sharrock

Phone: 027 764 8672

Coaching qualifications: BWF Level 2. BWF Level 1 Tutor.

Coaching experience: 12 years. NZu15, u17/u19 squads. Central Region u17 rep team. Manawatu u13s, u15s, u17s, u19s. Senior Div 3.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory: Coaching NZ u19 team to 20th in World Junior Champs 2017 in Indonesia. I enjoy seeing players improve and strive to fulfil their potential.

Private coaching: Yes.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

Gary Teague

Phone: 027 453 2402

Coaching qualifications: BWF Level 1.

Coaching experience: 25+ years. Manawatu u13s, u15s, u17s, u19s. Senior Div 5.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory:

Private coaching: Yes.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

James Veitch

James Veitch

Phone: 020 4097 0530

Coaching qualifications: Shuttle Time Coach.

Coaching experience: 4 years. Manawatu u13s, u17s, u19s. Coaching in Schools. Club coaching in university.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory: Coaching the Manawatu u19 team 2 at Nationals 2022. A great team attitude including a mixture of new and experienced players who worked very hard on court for an excellent 4th place finish in Div 2.

Private coaching: Yes.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

Wayne Young

Phone: 021 255 4350

Coaching qualifications: None.
Coaching experience: 25+ years. Wellington Senior Div 3-5. Manawatu u13s, u15s, u17s, u19s. Senior Div 3.

Highlight/favourite coaching memory: Seeing players grow in confidence.

Private coaching: Maybe.

Hourly rate: Upon request.

Sponsorship

The Manawatu Badminton Association is always open to explore new sponsorship possibilities from businesses or organisations. To learn how partnering with the MBA could help your business, please take a look at the sponsorship proposal below:

MBA Sponsorship Proposal 2020Download

If you would like to meet us to discuss how we could work together to help your business and continue to develop the sport of badminton, please feel free to contact us:

Sandra Lynch <sandra@manawatubadminton.org.nz>

General Feedback

Please use this form to provide feedback on any of the activities the MBA run. From time to time we call for feedback specific to particular programmes/events.

When you submit this form, it will not automatically collect your details like name and email address unless you provide it yourself.

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