Welcome to the Arizona Badminton Club website! Since our official founding in 1988, and even years before that, we have dedicated ourselves to promoting the indoor recreational and tournament sport of badminton throughout Arizona (see the tribute to Hank Anderssohn in the history portion of this website). We love badminton players of all ages and abilities, and from all nations. Our great Olympic sport is growing, and more players are participating every week. We have been coordinating an increasing network of places to play including a large base of high school players due to the more than fifty AIA High School Girls Varsity and Junior Varsity teams that have a season in the Fall each year.

In light of all this activity we have added several ABC Board Members. Joining original board members Dick Abbuhl and myself, are Dick Baltimore, Kathy Furtmann, Francis Hartojo, Chin Khor, Darcy McGrane, Doug Towne, and Rob Waters. Together we have more than 200 years of recreational and tournament badminton experience and a combination of professions, knowledge and dedication to serve the sport of badminton in Arizona!

I hope you find this website helpful. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to email me at: GCoachGC5@cox.net. Come and check out the new Arizona Badminton Center. We hope to see you on the court!

Guy Chadwick
Founder/Director

Looking for places to play badminton in the valley? Please visit the Where to Play page for an up-to-date list of open gyms around the Phoenix metropolitan area, complete with hours of operation, addresses, maps and fee schedule details.

For open gyms in Tucson, please visit the Tucson Badminton Club and the University of Arizona Badminton Club websites.

Please also visit the Events Calendar page for more open gym, tournaments and other local badminton events related announcements.

You can send your comments and suggestions by using the comments form or by sending a mail to: azsmash@gmail.com. Or, you can also reach us via Google Talk through screenname "azsmash". We're not online all the time, but when we are, feel free to chat with us.