2008
Washington State Games, an
Olympics for the state, is a program that started around the Centennial Games
(1989) and has struggled since. In 2008,
the Seattle Sports Commission took over the program and they have invited WSBA
to run the badminton games. So here we
are
Despite summer, which is a time
for vacation, boating and all sorts of outdoor activities in the northwest, we
have 95 players who participated in last weekend badminton games. We started on Friday afternoon at 4pm with
the juniors, moved into the Open Mixed Doubles, 50+ Mens Singles that evening
and all other events on Saturday.
Most Finals are on Sunday
and the winners are:
Open Mens
Singles Curtis Stensland
Open Womens
Singles Amy Jin
Open Mens
Doubles - Kevin
Yu & Ronald Langingi
Open Womens
Doubles Ufilya Davis & Clara Lam
Open Mixed Doubles Marti Fagnan & Geoff Stensland
U13 Boys Singles Adrian
Unruh
U13 Boys Doubles Adrian
Unruh & Gregory Yuen
U13 Girls Doubles Jessica
Yuen & Johanna Lee
U16 Boys Singles David
Wong
U16 Boys Doubles Chris Hua & Chirag Ved
U16 Girls Doubles Jessica
Lin & Rebecca Yuen
U19 Boys Singles Ernest So
U19 Girls Singles Amy Jin
U19 Boys Doubles Bryan Lam
& Jason Lai
U19 Girls Doubles Erika
Baker & Amy Jin
U19 Mixed Doubles Ernest
So & Janet Chong
35+ Mens
Doubles Fred Yu & John Tong
35+ Mixed Doubles
Katherine Ip & Frank Lee
50+ Mens
Singles Sing Lam
50+ Mens
Doubles Sing Lam & Randy Chen
For detailed results, please
visit www.northwestbadminton.org.
There are a lot of first
times. First time we have junior, open
and senior events in the same tournament.
Siling Wu made her first debut in a
tournament. Welcome Siling, hope to see you in
future tournaments. First time we have
numerous veteran & junior teams Masako/Bryan, Masako/Amy, Ufilya/Clara, Long/Ann, John
Tong/Amy Jin. Many
thanks to all the veterans who played with our juniors. You have definitely helped these young talents
advance to the next level. Oh yes, first
time the first 50 entries get a door prize of either a Yonex
overgrip, Yonex Nanogy 95 string or a half dozen tube Yonex
Mavis 300 plastic birdies.
Acknowledgement:
Draw Desk Patrick Ip, James Lau, Tracey Yao, Tao Yuan and Melissa Tang
Registration Melissa Tang
Food Grace Yuen, Florette Lam and Clara and
Setup and Cleanup Nino
Gonzales, Michael Su, Ann Tseng, Bryan Lam, Jason Lai, Ernest So and all those
who has helped.
Sponsor - Yonex Corp
Hope to see you again next
year!
Katherine Ip & Clinton Chen
Co-Commissioners for 2008