The North Bay Badminton Team is back in full swing again this year.
Provincial level athletes have already competed at the Mandarin Jr B tournament over the Thanksgiving weekend.
On October 21-22, the Sudbury Junior Badminton Club hosted the first Northern Ontario Badminton Association (NOBA) tournament of the season.
The tournament drew over 100 athletes from Bracebridge, North Bay, Sudbury, Timmins and Elliot Lake.
The North Bay Badminton Team brought a contingent of 29 athletes to the tournament, across all age groups and events.
For many this was not only the first tournament of the season, but their first tournament as members of the North Bay Badminton Team. Head coach, Kurt Tempelmans Plat was satisfied with the weekend's results.
"This is the first big tournament of the year for many of the kids. It's a good warm-up and sets the bar for future events and really motivated a lot of the athletes to work even harder. I can't wait to see where this season takes us."
Below are the team's results:
U14 Boys Singles
1st - Zachary Kizell
5th - Ryan O'Donnell
5th - Anton Stencill
2B - David Reid
1C - Paul Fuzy
2C - Colin Dreany
U14 Girls Singles
4 - Alexis Courvoisier
5 - Savanna Swearengen
5 - Victoria Gadomski
6 - Pipa Ng
6 - Maryssa Mercier
2B - Mariyah Kazi
U16 Boys Singles
3 - Dillon Laberge
4 - Jaden Blanchette
1B - Kris Barrer
3B - Pierre Legrand
1C - Ethan Monahan
2C - Yanik Olivier
4C - Jacob Grisé
U16 Girls Singles
4 - Madison Marsh
3B - Jazlyn McGuinty
U19 Boys Singles
4 - Addison Hunt
1B - Nicholas Babich
2C - Brady Fougère
U19 Girls Singles
3 - Marina Sinicrope
5 - Jewel Ng
5 - Ellen Perry
7 - Mai Lee Edwards
3C - Samantha Derosier
U14 Boys Doubles
4 - Ryan O'Donnell/David Reid
5 - Anton Stencill/Colin Dreany
U14 Girls Doubles
1 - Mariyah Kazi/partner
3 - Savanna Swearengen/Maryssa Mercier
4 - Pipa Ng/Victoria Gadomski
U16 Boys Doubles
4 - Kris Barrer/Yanik Olivier
5 - Jaden Blanchette/partner
6 - Pierre Legrand/Jacob Grisé
7 - Ethan Monahan/Zachary Kizell
U16 Girls Doubles
5 - Jazlyn McGuinty/Alexis Courvoisier
1B - Madison Marsh/partner
U19 Boys Doubles
2 - Nicholas Babich/Brady Fougère
3 - Dillon Laberge/Addison Hunt
U19 Girls Doubles
2 - Ellen Perry/partner
3 - Marina Sinicrope/Jewel Ng
4 - Mai Lee Edwards/partner
1C - Sam Derosier/partner
U14 Mixed Doubles
3 - Zachary Kizell/Alexis Courvoisier
4 - Mariyah Kazi/Ryan O'Donnell
5 - Anton Stencill/Pipa Ng
6 - Colin Dreany/Savanna Swearengen
7 - David Reid/Victoria Gadomski
8 - Paul Fuzy/Maryssa Mercier
U16 Mixed Doubles
4 - Yanik Oliviver/partner
6 - Pierre Legrand/partner
1B - Madison Marsh/Jaden Blanchette
3B - Jazlyn McGuinty/Ethan Monahan
1C - Kris Barrer/partner
U19 Mixed Doubles
1 - Ellen Perry/partner
4 - Dillon Laberge/partner
5 - Marina Sinicrope/Nicholas Babich
7 - Brady Fougère/Mai Lee Edwards
1C - Addison Hunt/Jewel Ng
3C - Sam Derosier/partner
Tempelmans Plat also highlighted that 2 athletes from the team journeyed to the Haber Community Center in Burlington over the weekend of Oct 29-30 to participate in a Jr A provincial event (the highest level event for juniors in the province of Ontario).
Gabriel Pharand dropped his first match in singles 15-21, and 16-21 to the #5 seed; he then just missed out on a win in consolation, losing in 3 games.
Merret Jung, a foreign exchange student from Germany that is spending her time training with the North Bay Badminton Team during her exchange to Canada had a successful weekend.
Jung took home the bronze in singles and managed a fourth place finish in doubles. Both athletes played very well, and we look forward to supporting them at their next Jr A event.
The North Bay Badminton Team is always looking for new members, they have programs starting as of the age of 4, and their competitive teams begin as young as 9 years old.
To learn more about the team and other badminton related programs, please visit www.ktpathletics.com or contact Tempelmans Plat directly at [email protected].
