US Junior Badminton

The current seeds for the 2008 US Junior Nationals are available for viewing in the news/info section under tournaments on the left navagation bar.

Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2008 Smashing Juniors,
and thanks to all the players to participated.

More information is available for the 2008 Junior Nationals. Including new coaching regulations and lines persons information. If you are attending the event as a parent, coach, or athlete please review the information.

The dates and locations of the 2008 World Junior Championships have been set. This year the event will be held in Pune, India. The team competition will run from October 24 until October 28, and the individual competition will run from October 29 to November 02. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

The entry deadline for the 2008 US Junior Nationals has been extended to May 22nd. Please have all entries submitted and postmarked by this date.

If you are interested in staying with a host family during Junior Nationals or getting transportation to or from the Boston Logan Airport please fill out the form attached below.

Housing with local host families and airport transportation from Boston Logan Airport will be available to tournament athletes, coaches and officials in Marblehead, MA from Friday, June 27 through Wednesday, July 2, 2008. Host families will provide guest athletes with a room (probably shared with another tournament athlete), breakfast, and transportation to and from the Gym each day.

Last weekend Karishma Kollipara entered her name into the Illinois State High School Badminton record books. Kollipara is the thrid player in the State Championships 32-year history to win three singles titles. She also helped her school, Hindale Central, to their first title victory.

Karishma Kollipara joins Linda French of York (1979, '81 and '82) and Erin Hois of Downers Grove South's (1998, '00 and '01) as the only badminton players to have won three singles championships.

Online news articles can be found in the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times.

                  For the first time ever, six Badminton tournaments were scheduled in California on the Memorial Day weekend, four in the Bay Area alone! Smash City hoped the tremendous increase in the popularity of Badminton would support all these simultaneous tournaments. However, all tournaments seem to be experiencing issues given the extended entry deadlines that have been posted. Smash City does not wish to hold, and does not want others to hold, a substandard tournament. Therefore, though Memorial Day weekend has been the Smashing Juniors tradition for many years, Smash City and Tournament Director Norman Chan have made the difficult decision for the good of Badminton to postpone Smashing Juniors this year two weeks to June 7-8. We hope everyone enjoys the remaining events over Memorial Day weekend, as well as supports Smashing Juniors on its new dates.

The 2008 Pan Am Junior Team athletes are as follows:
Howard Shu, Zenas Lam, Brendan Lum, Calvin Lim, Rena Wang, Priscilla Lun, Cheryl Chow, and Becky Neumann.

Below is the current list of the 2008 Junior Pan Am Individual athletes and the events they will be entered in.