A Strong Push for Competitive Badminton in Massachusetts

 
Over 40 years ago, competitive badminton was very popular in Massachusetts and a number of Northeast players won World Titles.  Today, three Clubs are spearheading training in competitive badminton: Boston Badminton, Marblehead Youth Badminton and Maugus Club.  Together, players from these Clubs in Massachusetts bring in more medals than any of the East Coast states in Regional and National Tournaments.
 
In less than two years, the number of juniors training for competitive badminton in Boston Badminton and participating in regional and national tournaments has grown to over 20, thanks to the strong coaching staff led by Head Coach Andy Chong.  More than half of these players brought home medals from the two biggest NE Junior Tournaments recently held: Nov 10-12 Super Regional New England Junior Open (NEJO) and Sept 29-30 Regional CPBC Junior Championships (CPJC).  We congratulate these outstanding players and commend them for the hard training:
 
Alex Cheng                         2nd, U19, BS NEJO
 
Darren Yang                       1st, U17 BS, 1st U17 BD, 2nd U17 MX  CPJC
                                                1st U17 BS, 1st U17 MX, 2nd U19 BD   NEJO
 
Jerry Yang                           2nd, U17 BS, 1st U17 BD, 1st U17 MX   CPJC
                                                3rd U17 BS, 2nd U19 MX, 2nd U19 BD   NEJO
 
Phyllis Lin                             1st U19 GD, 2nd U19 MX, 3rd U19 GS  NEJO
 
Jonathan Shee                 2nd U19 BS, 2nd U19 BD, ¾ U17 BS  CPJC
                                                1st U17 BD, 4th U19 BS   NEJO
 
Chun Lok Lo                        2nd U19 BD, ¾ U19 BS, cons winner U17 BS   CPJC
                                                1st U17 BD   NEJO
 
Ethan Wu                            1st U19 BS, ¾ U17 BS   CPJC
(also Maugus Club)         2nd U17 BD, ¾ U17 BS  NEJO
 
Briana Wang                       1st U17 MX, 1st U15 GD, 2nd U15 GS  CPJC
(also Maugus Club)         2nd U15 GD, 3rd U17 MX   NEJO
 
Timothy Shee                    1st U13 BD, ¾ U13 BS    CPJC
                                                1st U13 BD     NEJO
 
Steven Li                              ¾ U11 BS, 1st  U11 BD   CPJC
                                                1st U11 BS        NEJO
 
Nicolas Chiu                        1st U9 BD, 3rd U9 BS, cons winner U11 BS  NEJO
 
Other junior medalists include Andrew Lee U9, Justin Huang U9, Forest MA U11, Daniel Tigas U11, Serena Tseng U13, Thomas Ormond U13 and  Alex Cui U15.
 
                The competitive juniors continue to train hard for the busy tournament and camp schedule:
Dec 14-16    Yonex IBC Open                                                                           Edison, NJ
Dec 15-16     MAC Junior Championships                                                     Montville, NJ
Dec 26-29   2012 Yonex  Winter  Competitive Training Camp                  Boston Badminton
Jan 6           2013 Massbad High School Team Championships               Boston Badminton
Jan 11-13     National Capital DC Open                                                         College Park, MD
Jan 25-27     Connecticut Open                                                                        Baltic, CT
Feb 16-19     Junior International Trial                                                            Southern California
 
                On Jan 6, the Massachusetts Badminton Association will hold its first ever High School Team Championships in an effort to bring competitive badminton to MA high schools.  The final push is for  Northeast players to become competitive in the world stage.  To this end, Boston Badminton is a supporter of the Judy Devlin Fund for Excellence in Badminton with the hope of finding the next ‘Judy Devlin’ in the Northeast.