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Waltham, MA Badminton Club

Special Notices

This page was last updated on 13-Aug-10.

The gym used by this club will be renovated from late August through October, 2010. The final play date for a while is 21-Aug-10. The exact date of resuming in November has not yet been announced.

These are the Saturdays which are scheduled through August, 2010:

• August 2010 - 14, 21

This club will not meet on Sundays for July and August, nor will it meet in September and October due to the removations.

This is not a club for beginners.

Please park according to the directions below. The school has complained about how some of the club members have not been following the parking rules. There have also been complaints about some members driving too fast on the school grounds.

Since mid-June of 2003, this club meets at a gym on the campus of the Chapel Hill - Chauncy Hall School (CHCH) located at 785 Beaver Street in Waltham. The hours are currently 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Sundays when Sunday play resumes.

Saturday play is only for these levels of players:

• Club A Level - black labels
• Club B Level - red labels
• Club C Level - blue labels

The fee for Saturday or Sunday play is $8, but for those who are level A, B, or C players, the Sunday fee is $6.

This club is running training sessions:

• junior training on Saturdays usually from 4:45 to 6:15 p.m., but for 14-Aug-10 and 21-Aug-10 it starts from 2 p.m.
• junior training on Sundays from 5:15 to 6:45 p.m.

The doors are opened about 10 minutes before the start time to allow for time to set up the nets, and they are locked up about 15 minutes after the ending time.

The gym has 3 courts, and the gym quality is high. The floor was new in 2003 and has very clear yellow badminton lines. The ceilings are high, and the lighting is good. There is plenty of space outside of the courts, so you can warm up there. There is no air conditioning. Players tend to range from about tournament level A through D. This is not a club for beginners. Players are expected to bring their own racquets and feathered birds; the club does not provide birds.

The person to contact with questions is organizer and player Tom Yang at ShowJean@verizon.net. Tom maintains an e-mail notification list for this club, so if you would like to subscribe, please contact him.

The locations of the parking lots and the gym are shown in a drawing included below. The gym is in a long brown building with a green roof, named the Claude F. Machen Student Center. Enter at the right end of the building, turn right then left, and walk straight to the gym.

General Rules

• This is a non-smoking campus. (Lexington St. is not far away from the gym - good luck for smokers.)
  
• Try not to bring food and drink into gym other than water. This is not a strict requirement, but please use your own judgment. There is a water fountain in the hallway just outside the gym.
  
• There is equipment in the gym other than for badminton, and badminton players are requested to use none of this, including various kinds of balls. Please use only the badminton facilities, water fountain, and the restrooms.
  
• Children are allowed, but please take good care of them, especially on the courts. The school and this club are not responsible for any injury and loss. Because there is plenty of space outside the courts, this is not a big issue - you just need to be very careful.
  
• Badminton players are asked to park in the parking lot #1, where there are 18 spaces. This is shown in the drawing below. After you drive into school, turn right onto the first road on your right, and that leads you almost immediately to Lot #1, next to a building labelled "The Barn". If you cannot find a space in Lot #1, please then proceed to Lots #2, #3, and #4; park in the lowest numbered lot you can. This is what the school requested, and the club players should honor this.

A Map Showing the School Location

You can view a map showing where the club meets.

Directions to the School from I-95 (Route 128)

• Take I-95 to Exit 27A, "Totten Pond Road, Wyman St.".
• Take Totten Pond Road East for about 1.2 miles to its end. Get in the middle of three lanes.
  
• Turn right onto Lexington St., and bear left at the nearby signal. Go about 0.2 miles to the next signal at Beaver Street.
  
• Turn left onto Beaver St., and the entrance to the school is the first driveway on your left, which comes quite soon. The diagram below is not to scale.

Parking Lots and Gym Location at the School