New York, New York

This past saturday the DBT participated in a tri-meet in NYC against Columbia University and Marist College.  We all (except maybe Will) enjoyed some delicious mexican food after the match and toured the Columbia campus just enough to make us jealous of their surroundings. And Despite the snow, rain and wind, Peter and Sara managed to get us there and back safely. But more important than safety, we played pretty well.

Scores:
Drexel Men (won) v. Columbia : 6-3
Drexel Men (won) v. Marist : 9-0
Drexel Women (lost) v. Columbia : 1-8
Drexel Women (won) v. Marist : 9-0
Drexel Mixed (won) v. Columbia : 2-0
Drexel Mixed (tie) v. Marist : 1-1

Good job team!

AND in VK fashion I will be starting to post pictures from events on Picasa for you all to take a gander at. Click HERE and HERE to see the pictures from the NYC event.....
and HERE for pictures from the Mid-Atlantic Jr's Tournament.

BEN

NYC Badminton Club Annual Tournament 2009 Results

New York, New York, Big city of dreams;
And everything in New York ain't always what it seems.

Who would've figured that Drexel Badminton would walk away from the NYC Badminton Club's annual tournament with 10 medals?

Here are two of them.

Held from March 27th - 29th, 2009 at John Bowne High School in Flushing, NY, this was their club's 13th annual tournament. To make things fun, half of the group travelled by car with Nisarg. The other half rode the Chinatown bus up to NYC, hopped on the subway, caught a bus, only to walk a fair amount to the actual gym. I also made the group walk about 3 miles to our hotel in Jamaica, NY, passing through a heavily Jewish neighborhood at roughly 1 in the morning. Good times.

Here are the Drexel Badminton team highlights:

• Yehan Ranasinghe - Division A - Men's Singles - Bronze
  
  
• Peter Thai & Zdravko Tyankov - Division B Consolations - Men's Doubles - Golds
• Xiang Mao & Sara White - Division B Consolations - Women's Doubles - Golds
  
  
• Vincent Kan & Artur Vieira - Division C Consolations - Men's Doubles - Golds
• Chunyin Li & Sara White - Division C Consolations - Mixed Doubles - Golds
• Artur Vieira - Division C Consolations - Mixed Doubles - Bronze

Some photos are here. The lighting was really orange and there wasn't a lot of space to shoot from.

And Yehan won 70 bucks. Cha-ching!

For some Grandmaster Flash lovin'...

-VK

Quad-meet with Bryn Mawr, UPenn, and NYU

Hello, friends.

Since the number of courts at Drexel is pitiful, we met at Bryn Mawr College on Saturday, February 28th, 2009 to conduct an IBA quad-meet. Drexel played against New York University's badminton team. They had legitimate jerseys. Serious business.

I don't have the results of our individual matches.
Just know this: Drexel defeated NYU 5-4.

We are the IBA champions of the east coast, supposedly.

Some photos are here. Bui Wonder bogarted my camera and took some of the shots toward the latter half of the day. Pz.

-VK