The Coaching Team

	Junior Director: Lyndsay Thomson Lyndsay has been involved in the badminton community throughout Canada for the last 18 years. She has competed on the international circuit as a player and has set records on the CCAA National College Circuit for most wins as a female singles player. She capped her playing career off by being the first badminton player to win the CCAA National Athlete of the Year across all sports. Coaching has been a passion of Lyndsay's for the last 15 years. Starting out as a regional coach in Victoria, Lyndsay is now certified as a Level 2 NCCP coach as well as a coaching facilitator - instructing coaches throughout the province. After coaching the BC Junior team for a number of years, Lyndsay moved to Kelowna to become the Head Coach of the Kelowna Badminton Club, where, for 5 years, she worked with the Juniors and developed the High Performance Program. Happy to have moved into a director's position at the club, Lyndsay still enjoys spending time with all the great juniors at the club
	Head Coach: Robbyn Hermitage Robbyn was an outstanding player, she won 10 Canadian National titles and represented Canada at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She was twice a Commonwealth Games team member and also a 2-time Pan American team member where she won a Gold, 2 Silvers and a Bronze. Before moving to Kelowna Robbyn coached National and Provincial Champions at both Junior and Senior level in Quebec, Ontario and BC. Last season she coached the Zone 2 (Thompson Okanagan) BC Games team to a team bronze medal plus several individual medals. Robbyn loves badminton and os thrilled to work with athletes of all calibres.
	Assistant Coach: Victor Yap Victor has been playing badminton since he was 12. He was a National level junior player winning both Provincial and National titles. He represented BC in the Western Canada Winter Games and also our region in the BC Winter Games. He started coaching at an early age and has a Level 1 NCCP Technical Accreditation. Victor mainly coaches our older Junior athletes.
	Assistant Coach: David Crawford David was born in Winnipeg but moved to Kelowna when he was 17 and has recently finished a 5 year business degree at Okanagan College. David's first love was skiing where he was a member of the Canadian National Freestyle team. He took up badminton as a cross-training activity for skiing and quickly progressed. David has played tournaments all over North America and recently figured in the finals of the Kelowna Open. He attained his Level 1 NCCP coaching qualification 7 years ago and has been coaching at KBC for 2 years with the hope that he can inspire our younger athletes.
	Junior Coach: Tomis Bridge Tomis has been playing badminton for nine years and has been helping out as a coach for four of those years. Besides playing in and winning numerous tournaments around the valley, he has grown as a player and coach by helping out with his school team. He is a current student at Kelowna Secondary School and has gone to the Provincial Championships with KSS both as a player and as a coach for the team. Although Tomis no longer plays competitively he loves working with and training our junior players. He completed his Level 1 NCCP qualification to ensure that the skills he teaches are of high standard; however, he certainly sees the value in creating a fun learning environment with the use of positive reinforcement and most importantly - bribery (candy!)
	Junior Coach: Hayden Ostram Hayden has been playing badminton since he was 13. He is currently a student at KSS and is looking to go to UCBO. After playing local tournaments for some time he started playing at a Provincial level last year. Hayden's ambition is to become a strong force on the National circuit. Hayden loves coaching the juniors and looks forward to helping develop their skills and their positive attitude to the game.
	Volunteer Coach: Claudia Lauretta Claudia is a student at Immaculata Regional High School. Whilst she's not been playing tournaments that long she's already picked up a Silver medal for mixed doubles at the 2012 BC Games and helped her team to the Bronze medal. Her long term goal is to be part of the Canadian National Team. Claudia also believes in giving back to her sport and is already helping Robbyn and the coaching team with our younger athletes.