UCLA
Badminton Club 
UCLA
Badminton Club 
the
attention it deserves here in the United States, mainly due to the fact
that many Americans are misinformed on this sport. Most American's still
live in the days when badminton was a picnic sport. That was than, This
is now! With the birdie flying over 200 mph, badminton is one of the fastest
racquet sport in the world. 
Badminton
player need fast reaction time, power, agility, accuracy and the ability
to jump high. All these skills are needed in order to be good at this sport.
Currently, United States only have 2
male and 3
female singles player ranked above 100. Rather ridiculous considering that United States is a power house in almost of the other sports.| Position: | Name: | E-mail: |
| President: | Nathan Wang | natwang@ucla.edu |
| Vice-President | Elwin Ong | eco1@ucla.edu |
| Treasurer: | Lilia Woo | wool@ucla.edu |
| Secretary: | Gene Bang | gbang@ucla.edu |
| Publicity: | Steve Wang | wayawaya@ucla.edu |
| Sr. Executive Advisor: | Tony Chow | tchow@ucla.edu |
UCLA badminton club is on it's fourth year here at UCLA. With over 30 members of varies ablities, everyone tries hard to improve each other's game so we can bring trophies back from badminton tournaments. We meet every week on Friday from 6:30 to 9:45 pm in the Men's Gym. From time to time, we enter tournaments to compete with other players in the area. UCLA badminton is a member of the Southern California Intercollegiate Badminton League (SCIBL), which is on it's second year of existence. Other member of the SCIBL are UC Irvine, UC San Diego, USC, CalPoly SLO, and CalTech. Last year, we were able to compile a record of 4-2 in SCIBL. This year the league finals will be at UCLA Pardee Gym on May 22, 1999.
UCLA was able to host the second annual SCIBL finals this year. Although USC wasn't not able to make it to the finals due to the fact that their school year ended already, plenty of players from the other schools to pack the UCLA Pardee Gym. As a team, the UCLA badminton club was able to finish in second place within the SCIBL, right behind UC Irvine. Melva won 1st place in Women's Singles. Karen and Kelly placed 2nd in Women's Doubles. Karen and George won 1st place, and, Melva and Nathan placed 2nd, in Mix Doubles.
UC Irvine placed 2nd and 3rd in Men's Singles, 1st and 2nd in Men's Doubles, 1st in Women's Doubles and 3rd in Mix Doubles.
Cal Poly SLO placed 1st in Men's Singles.
UC San Diego place 2nd in Women's Doubles
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