Ballymena LTC Junior Championships 2025

Ballymena LTC Internal Junior Championships 2025 💚💙💛

This year we had an outstanding 77 junior entries in our club junior championships. The highest entry number, since the events introduction in 2021.

More than 3/4 of our junior membership entered at least one event throughout the championships which was terrific to see.

The club ran a total of 21 events, with all levels being catered for. Many juniors were playing in their first type of competitions, which was great to see.

The club had 36 Juniors who entered the Red, Orange, Green events, with a further 41 entering U12-U18 yellow ball events.

The club would like to thank Knox Electrical Ltd and HNH Partners who were the official sponsors of the event. Their support was greatly appreciated.

Director of Coaching Barry Clarke stated,

“I am delighted to see the level of interest in our club championships this year. To see many of our new members competing, while also seeing juniors entering competition for the first time is great to see.

In 2025 we have put even more emphasis on competition ensuring it is centre to our lessons.

We look to ensure point play happens in every session, with serve, rally and score taking place.

The club holds end of month match plays on the last weekend of every month. This helps players, parents and coaches see the juniors improvements month to month

This summer we also started an internal Friday night summer league, which had over 90 juniors throughout the summer competing.

The club looks to also hold 4 team challenge events throughout the year which we now link in to our new house cup competition

The aim was to get as many juniors having the opportunity to play in a competitive environment within the confines of their own club.

It is also important to help juniors understand the benefits of playing competition, while ensuring there is a purpose behind it.

I would like to thank the sponsors and all the coaching staff and volunteer team who has helped ensure the club championships have ran so smoothly”

The Ballymena LTC Official Awards and Celebration Afternoon will be taking place on Saturday 6th December at 1pm within the Ballymena Academy Sixth Form Centre.

Well done to all our competitors. 

The list of winners and runners up can be found below -