Amy Mellersh

Amy has been coaching and helping at the Junior club since the age of 11. In that time Amy has grown as a player from a beginner to a junior county player to a national circuit tournament player and senior county player, and she has played in our Ladies A and Mixed A, B and C teams.

Amy has always shown an interest in other players’ development. She enjoys coaching, organising tournaments, helping with scoring and umpiring and has done this many times at local and national tournaments. Amy uses her experience in drills and practice learned from some of the very best coaches in the country to help the club develop our overall coaching program by offering thoughts and ideas on how we can improve our coaching sessions and then demonstrating them with expertise.

Nickname
Amen, Smellersh

Left/Right Handed
Right

Racket
Yonex Voltric70

Coaching Status
Foundation Coaching Qualification

Chew Valley Teams Played for
Juniors, Ladies, Mixed A, Mixed B and C

Other badminton teams played for
Avon U14, U16, U18, U20, Snr 6ths & 4ths

Best Achievement as a Player
Medal in doubles u17 Herts Gold with Susan

Best Achievement as a Coach
Attending Young Leaders courses in Milton Keynes, and umpiring the National Schools Finals

A player you have particularly enjoyed coaching at Chew Valley and why?
Lucy and Megan- always really enthusiastic, funny and persistent

Favourite Comedy Moment playing badminton
The commentators at a tournament in Warwickshire (video below)

Favourite Badminton Player
Sindhu (closely followed by Judith Ogden ofc)

Sporting Hero/Heroine
Mo Farah

Other sports you play
Netball, hockey and football in school

What your other non-sporting interests are
Netflix

Football/Rugby Team
Whoever Dad supports – Bristol City & Liverpool

What you enjoy most about coaching at Chew Valley Badminton Club?
All the juniors have great personalities so every session is always a laugh