HAWKS BADMINTON COMBINE TO GO 11-4 ON DAY ONE AT NATIONALS
UPDATE: The Hawks have wrapped up a highly successful first day at the National Championship; Humber's Women's Singles, Men's Singles and Mixed Doubles Teams combined to go a perfect 9-0.
Jesse Assing opened the day with an upset victory over OCAA Gold Medalist Owen Kurvits (16-21, 21-13, 21-11) and carried the momentum into two more victories over Matthew Chan (21-19, 13-21, 21-15) and Connor Reinson (21-11, 21-7).
Olivia Lei, named CCAA Player of the Year last night, easily handled each of her three matches in straight sets and appears to be the favorite in Women's Singles play. The Mixed Doubles Team of Adam Dong and Tracy Wong were the third Hawks team to run the table, sweeping each of their three matches in dominant fashion.
The Men's Doubles (Ryan Chow and Darcy Schmidt) and Women's Doubles (Christina Duong and Michelle Chow) Teams each went 1-2 on Thursday.
For day one results, please visit http://www.ccaa.ca/schedule-results-s15146.
For livestreaming of all matches, please click here http://live.streamit.ca/?player=2227.
COMING OFF DOMINANT PERFORMANCE AT PROVINCIALS, BADMINTON HEADED TO HALIFAX
The Humber Hawks Badminton Team, currently ranked third in the country, are headed to King's College in Halifax this week for the National Championship.
Humber is coming off an incredible performance at Provincial's, where the Hawks dominated en route to the best set of results in the programs history. On top of sweeping the Men's and Women's Team Championships, six of the Hawks seven teams in action qualified for the CCAA Tournament.
Individually, Humber came away with six medals – two gold and four silver. Olivia Lei took home the Title in Women's Singles while the duo of Adam Dong and Tracy Wong won the Mixed Doubles Title. Jesse Assing (Men's Singles), Cindy Fu (Women's Singles) and both the Men's (Ryan Chow and Darcy Schmidt) and Women's (Michelle Chow and Christina Duong) Doubles Teams came home with Silver medals.
The following players will be competing for Humber:
Women's Singles
Olivia Lei
Cindy Fu
Men's Singles
Jesse Assing
Women's Doubles
Michelle Chow and Christina Duong
Men's Doubles
Ryan Chow and Darcy Schmidt
Mixed Doubles
Adam Dong and Tracy Wong
For full tournament schedule, please visit http://www.ccaa.ca/schedule-results-s15146.
For livestreaming please click here http://live.streamit.ca/?player=2227.
Play gets underway on Thursday, stay tuned to @HumberHawks for updates throughout.
