Collegiate Nationals 2010

This past weekend the Drexel team once again traveled to beautiful College Park, Maryland and successfully avoided all police forces, this time.  Competition was tough both from the east coast and west coast.  Berkeley ended up winning both the men's and women's divisions. Our women's team(sara) was only narrowly defeated.

Senior team member, Chern, gave an exciting last show at nationals this year. He recalled, "When I was a freshmen, I was sitting on the bleachers watching this [men's doubles final] match. Now, I am playing in it."  Good thing he had been drinking that Chernade.  Z also played well in his last nationals, winning the men's doubles (B) draw with Peter.

The rest of the team performed well.

MD (A) :: Yehan & Chern - 2nd Place
XD (A) :: Chern and Sara - Quarterfinals
MS (B) :: Peter - Quarterfinals
MD (B) :: Peter & Z - 1st Place
            Akhil and Ben - Semifinals



A list of official results can be found here. So here is to next year when Drexel will win.  We better start training.

Photos from: Me
                   Peter Teuben
                   Our Peter
(more coming soon)

BEN

Look out, D.C.

The National Capitol Open is less than 3 days away.  Those of us lucky enough to be rewarded a spot in the draw will be departing this weekend for the University of Maryland.  This years event was flooded with over 300 entries and sadly, many players on our team were sanctioned to the wait list. Most of us, however, were lucky enough to gain entry into at least one event... tough luck, Aaron. This weekend will most likely be very fun and what better way to start it out than a 2 - 3 hour car ride!

Details for the DC Open, including the weather, can be found here.

It's going to be an intense weekend. Rest up!

BEN

DC Open 2009 Results

Hoo boy. Another year, another DC Open.

The Drexel Badminton Team was at the University of Maryland once again for DC Open 2009 from January 9-11, 2009. The tournament ran like a well-oiled machine and competition was enjoyably intense.

We stayed at the Clarion Inn where bed bugs were kept to a minimum this time around. 70 bones a night for a double room with free breakfast but the free WiFi was inexplicably down.

The tournament results are here. Drexel Badminton highlights:

• Chern-Hooi Lim - Men's Singles - B Level Semifinalist
• Xiang Mao - Women's Singles - A Level Quarterfinalist
• Anna Luong - Women's Singles - B Level Semifinalist
• An Nguyen - Women's Singles - B Level Finalist
  
  
• Peter Thai & Zdravko Tyankov - Men's Doubles - B Level Quarterfinalists
• Henrik Lam & Chern-Hooi Lim - Men's Doubles - B Level Quarterfinalists
• Anna Luong & An Nguyen - Women's Doubles - B Level Semifinalists
• Xiang Mao - Women's Doubles - B Level Finalists
• Chern-Hooi Lim & An Nguyen - Mixed Doubles - B Level Quarterfinalists
  
  
• Peter Thai - Men's Singles - C Level Quarterfinalist
• Vincent Kan - Men's Singles - D Level Semifinalist
• Sara White - Women's Singles - D Level Quarterfinalist
  
  
• Vincent Kan & Chunyin Li - Men's Doubles - D Level Quarterfinalists
• Linh Thanh Bui & Artur Vieira - Men's Doubles - D Level Quarterfinalists
• Sara White - Women's Doubles - D Level Semifinalists

Congratulations to our noted Drexel players and to all participants as well.
Peter Teuben, tournament coordinator, has his photos here.
My photos, centered mainly around Drexel, of course, are here.

Looking forward to next year's DC Open.

-VK