St Catherine's Drive, Douglas, IM1 4BE
Comprehensive secondary school with over 1500 students. The Studio Theatre is located at Ballakermeen. Their Website states: Our Mission Inspiring and supporting our students, enabling them to become confident and capable citizens. Our Values We believe in the transformative power of education. Our Vision We want our students to have a strong sense of self-worth, […]
Castle Rushen Sports Hall, Arbory Road, Castletown, IM9 1RE
Rushen Badminton Club including the Hotshots.
The game developed in British India from the earlier game of battledore and shuttlecock. European play came to be dominated by Denmark but the game has become very popular in Asia, with recent competitions dominated by China. Since 1992, badminton has been a Summer Olympic sport with four events: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, and women’s doubles, with mixed doubles added four years later. […]
Castle Rushen High School, Arbory Road, Castletown, IM9 1RE
The name, Badminton, derives from the Duke of Beaufort’s Badminton House in Gloucestershire, but why or when remains unclear. As early as 1860, a London toy dealer named Isaac Spratt published a booklet entitled Badminton Battledore – A New Game, but no copy is known to have survived. An 1863 article in The Cornhill Magazine describes badminton as “battledore and shuttlecock played with sides, across […]
Established more than 75 years ago, the Badminton Association has 6 mixed leagues, as well as men and women’s leagues. Training and tournaments are held all over the Island and through out the year.
The Isle of Man Squash Rackets Association (IOMSRA), was founded in 1988 and has been a member of the European Squash Federation, since 2002. The IOMSRA, is also a member club of England Squash and for administrative purposes, comes under the County of Merseyside.