Northern Ontario Badminton Association
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2025 NOBA Junior Championships
November 11th, 2024
Mark your calendars, the 49th NOBA Junior Championships are returning to North Bay on February 21-22, 2025!
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2024 NOBA Junior Championships
February 24th, 2024​
Thank you to the 129 players, representing six clubs that participated in the 48th edition of the NOBA Junior Championships held in North Bay. Thank you to our host, KTP Racquet Club for running a smooth tournament. It was a long couple of days, but we successfully played 409 matches to complete the tournament. Another thank you to our Official for the weekend, Paul Best for making keeping track of our courts, official rulings, and umpiring all of our finals matches.
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Congratulations to this year's champions!
U14 Girls Singles - Alexie Carré (KTP Racquet Club)
U14 Boys Singles - Francis Morneau (KTP Racquet Club)
U14 Girls Doubles - Alexie Carré & Dania Lalonde (KTP Racquet Club)
U14 Boys Doubles - Cody Lefebvre & Reuben Abraham (KTP Racquet Club)
U14 Mixed Doubles - Zoéanne Dubien & Francis Morneau (KTP Racquet Club)
U16 Girls Singles - Gabrielle Lapointe (Thériault)
U16 Boys Singles - Wade Belanger (KTP Racquet Club)
U16 Girls Doubles - Lilly Wolfe & Carlie Popp (KTP Racquet Club)
U16 Boys Doubles - Marc Giroux & Liam Bowes (KTP Racquet Club)
U16 Mixed Doubles - Gabrielle Lapointe & Jeff Denis (Thériault)
U19 Girls Singles - Victoria Charbonneau (KTP Racquet Club)
U19 Boys Singles - Colin Evans (KTP Racquet Club)
U19 Girls Doubles - Rory Corbeil & Victoria Charbonneau (KTP Racquet Club)
U19 Mixed Doubles - Matteo Rocca & Alexie Carré (Sudbury & KTP Racquet Club)
U14 Team Champions - KTP Racquet Club
U16 Team Champions - KTP Racquet Club
U19 Team Champions - KTP Racquet Club
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2024 Team NOBA Sponsors
February 9th, 2024​
With the Ontario Winter Games beginning in one week, the Northern Ontario Badminton Association would like to recognize all of the team sponsors that helped support our district in getting to Thunder Bay for this event. Please take a moment to read through our sponsors, and check them out as they have done so much to help us out. A heartfelt Thank You is offered to every one of our sponsors!
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-Jeff & Tanis' No Frills -Victor -The Engraving Shoppe
-KTP Racquet Club -Badminton Ontario -Boyer Group Electronics
-Life Long Planning Group -ESCO -Chris & Gabriel Chartrand
-Evans Electric -King Sportswear -Paterson Group
-Edmund Liu & Family -Manroc -Brad Norman
-Northern Ontario Appraisals -Barrick
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2024 Ontario Winter Games Team Selected
November 28th, 2023
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Team NOBA has been selected for the 2024 Ontario Winter Games being held in our district in Thunder Bay! Thank you to all for applying, and best of luck to the team competing February 16-19! Let's try to earn our 2nd medal in a row following up last year's epic performanec earning Team NOBA the bronze medal (first medal in 30 years), the Team Spirit Award, and the Coach of the Games Award! Go NOBA!
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Girls (in no particular order)
Victoria Charbonneau
Emily Proulx
Rory Corbeil
Lillian Li
Gabrielle Dufresne-Nappert
Emilie-Ann Ingram (alternate)
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Boys (in no particular order)
Colin Evans
Adeoba Alabi
Ganashyam Pradeepan
Kayo Lake
Wade Belanger
Fergus Kerr (alternate)
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Manager: Shannon Evans
Coach: Kurt Tempelmans Plat
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