BADMINTON 2018
JR BADMINTON
This year was a successful year for our junior Badminton team. We participated in both the CISAA and the CAAA tournaments along with the North and South Middle schools. We had great success with medals going in different categories:
Gold: Berkat Sidhu (Girls Singles), Berkat Sidhu and Shazma Khan (Girls Doubles)
Silver: Nicholas Si (Boys Singles), Leo Huang and Suchir Srivastava (Boys Doubles)
Bronze: Ethan Chok and Lidia Liu (Mixed Doubles),
At the CAAA tournament, FFCA also earned the banner for the aggregate points for Girls.
Go Phoenix Badminton!
Gold: Berkat Sidhu (Girls Singles), Berkat Sidhu and Shazma Khan (Girls Doubles)
Silver: Nicholas Si (Boys Singles), Leo Huang and Suchir Srivastava (Boys Doubles)
Bronze: Ethan Chok and Lidia Liu (Mixed Doubles),
At the CAAA tournament, FFCA also earned the banner for the aggregate points for Girls.
Go Phoenix Badminton!
SR BADMINTON
We had a great year with a number of athletes achieving a high level of success. Participating in two intensely challenging tournaments (Strathmore and Crescent Heights) made us much stronger, both mentally and physically, in preparation for the CISAA Badminton Championships. Physically speaking, Mr. Broughton once again put the team through the paces staring with tryouts and continuing on through the season! This becomes invaluable when out team reaches the day of CISAA as the games happen in quick succession and are often decided through whomever survives attrition.
Strathmore was our first tourney where we faced many high level players from around the Province and Sherry Luu took the Bronze Medal in Sr. Girl’s Singles!
Crescent Heights was the second tournament of the year during Spring Break where over 300 athletes competed in over 1000 games played. Despite the level of play at this amazing tournament, we competed at a higher level than any year past across the board and Pranav Bhagawatula made the playoff round, losing in a match that went the distance which is a huge accomplishment considering the level of play at this tournament.
The level of competition at both tournaments helped us grow as a team and as individual players. The addition of 3 new players that did not attend FFCA last year (Yuvraj Agnihotri, Jubin Reji and Dhairya Desai) also improved our team competitiveness overall. They benefitted greatly from the level of play we encountered and will know what to expect for next year. Last year’s Jr. players were a welcome addition to the team as well. At CISAA, 4 of our players qualified for Zones. Sherry Luu won Gold in Sr. Girl’s Singles, Brianna Chan won Silver in Intermediate Girl’s Singles and the team of Aaron S and Parthvi Kulkarni came out of nowhere to win Silver in Sr. Mixed Doubles! Well done team! We’re proud of all of you and we’re looking forward to next year.
Strathmore was our first tourney where we faced many high level players from around the Province and Sherry Luu took the Bronze Medal in Sr. Girl’s Singles!
Crescent Heights was the second tournament of the year during Spring Break where over 300 athletes competed in over 1000 games played. Despite the level of play at this amazing tournament, we competed at a higher level than any year past across the board and Pranav Bhagawatula made the playoff round, losing in a match that went the distance which is a huge accomplishment considering the level of play at this tournament.
The level of competition at both tournaments helped us grow as a team and as individual players. The addition of 3 new players that did not attend FFCA last year (Yuvraj Agnihotri, Jubin Reji and Dhairya Desai) also improved our team competitiveness overall. They benefitted greatly from the level of play we encountered and will know what to expect for next year. Last year’s Jr. players were a welcome addition to the team as well. At CISAA, 4 of our players qualified for Zones. Sherry Luu won Gold in Sr. Girl’s Singles, Brianna Chan won Silver in Intermediate Girl’s Singles and the team of Aaron S and Parthvi Kulkarni came out of nowhere to win Silver in Sr. Mixed Doubles! Well done team! We’re proud of all of you and we’re looking forward to next year.