Team update 2/27

1. Team website

Please A). book mark this website and B). check for team related updates once every weekday. 

2. Team Calendar

Below are the links for the 15-16 Girls season team calendar. You can use the links to add the calendar to your phone calendar, Google Calendar, etc. You can also check the calendar on the right side of this website.

Google Calendar ID:
bxscience.edu_pl2q61aomqtpfibh92b1mbkmm0@group.calendar.google.com 

iCal Link:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/bxscience.edu_pl2q61aomqtpfibh92b1mbkmm0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Html Link:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=bxscience.edu_pl2q61aomqtpfibh92b1mbkmm0%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York

3. Remind

Please join the team remind group. You will receive short updates via text/email/remind app on your phone. For longer messages, I will send the updates via email and blog update. 

Link for Remind: https://www.remind.com/join/vbadgirl

You can also join via text or email following the instruction below. 

4. Practice next week

We will meet on Tue, Thurs and Friday next week. Practice schedule will be updated every week during weekends. Any unexpected changes will be notified via Remind. 

5. Other notes for practice 

Sports attire
You must have proper sports attire for all games and practices. 
You must change prior to practice. 
You must wear shorts and sneakers. 

On time
You must come to practice on time. Meeting times are updated on the Google Calendar. In general, we meet right after SGI (10th) from Monday to Thursday and after 9th on Fridays. 
If you arrive after the team have started stretching and warming-up, you will have to run 5 laps in the gym and perform a 2-minute wall sit.

6. Team status

Currently, we have selected 18 people. Everyone is on "probationary" status, meaning we will further cut, down to 16 people. I will invite the top 4 players from the 3rd round of tryouts to join our practice next week. There are also several additional students who will come to the makeup tryouts on Tuesday and Thursday.

After stretch, warm-up, and basic skill practice. We will play team tournament. We will use the swiss system. You can do some research yourself if you want to understand the tournament system better. In short, winners will play winners and loser will play losers. You will not play with the same opponent for more than once. For each round, you will play 2 sets of 11-point game. You get 1 point if you win, 0.5 point if you tie, and 0 point if you lose.

The tournament schedule will be updated in the link below.
http://challonge.com/16girlstryouts 

*The current tournament schedule is tentative and subject to change.

7. Badminton knowledge

Everyone MUST to read the most recent rules and regulation in its entirety. 

Link here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwY0h2pcakUwNTZLVWdyRlRTMnM/view?usp=sharing

You should also watch/read skill level appropriate videos and tutorials to enhance your knowledge of the sport. You can start by reading some of the old posts on this blog.