Ashaway players were in abundance at the recent English Nationals, we took the opportunity to catch up with a few a of them.Rachel Howard is our Ladies Singles player and now a full time professional player, she has recently recovered from a stress fracture that had here out of action for nearly 12 months and is now building her fitness level and match sharpness to press on to where she belongs at the top of the england rankings and beyond.
Rachel is pictured here during here 1st round victory at the english nationals, due to her long term injury she was not seeded in the event and in the second round came up against the number 1 seed Liz McCann. The game was very tight and could have gone either way, but unfortunatley fitness eventually played a part and Rachel bowed out after a strong performance. Check out the Rachel Howard Blog here to see rachels progress this season
Mark Sellwood (pictured right)is a Mens Singles player and High Performance coach based in Birmingham. Mark is a consistent player (currently ranked at 13 in England) and a fantastic coach. Mark narrowly missed out on repeating his form from last year, missing out on a quarter final meet with Raj Ouseph, losing 22-20 in his 2nd round match.
Nathan D'Cruz (pictured left) is the new kid on the block, last year he was the Under 19 national champion and is now training full time at the National Badminton Centre in Milton Keynes. Nathan is a real talent and a prospect for 2012. Nathan also narrowly missed out on a quarter final match up, loosing in a tense 3 set match to Harry Wright.Also representing Ashaway at the Nationals were Caroline Westly, Ivor Griffiths, Neil White & Jo Dix.
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