Varsity Another great beginning to the Hinsdale South Varsity Badminton season! After going through a tough tryout period and a great first two weeks of practice, the Hornet Varsity Badminton team started out with some great wins against Homewood-Flossmoor, Lincoln-Way Central, Oak Forest and Lincoln-Way West. We then proceed to jump into our annual Dennis Karnstedt varsity badminton tournament and game away with a third place finish against 12 really good badminton teams. Congratulations to Maggie Chen and Megan Tai for their championships at 1 and 2 singles at this tournament. Also, congratulations to Eva Maria Louis for her second place finish at 3 singles. Megan Tai and Ameila Hoch are showing the team what great leadership is and their examples of helping others and the team is really what makes Hornet Badminton great!
JV1 The JV team started the first week of competition with stellar performances. The team is comprised of returning and new players. In a short time span, each member has grown exponentially. The growth showed immensely on Saturday with a second place finish at the Glenbard East tournament. The hornets were led by Bianca Bares (#4 Singles) Layla Cabrera (#3 Singles) Sophie Petrosius (#2 Singles) and Karen Zaki (#1 Singles), Kelly Lin and Elizabeth Martin (#3 Doubles), Eva Gurklys and Ava Chvosta (#2 Doubles), and Maya Chrzanowska and Isabella Jarosz (#1 Doubles).
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Freshman This week our freshman played their first matches of the season. On Tuesday, we fought hard against HF, OE, and LWW and ended up with tying with LWW, but closed out HF with 8-0 and went on to beat OE 5-3.
On Thursday, we traveled to LWE to compete in a quad and tied with LWE. We also tied against LT but went 8-0 against GBS to secure a win.
Lastly, we played in our first tournament of the season on Saturday. Monika and Mija received 3rd place in single matches and Gracie and Maya received 3rd in theirs as well. We played against 8 teams and went 4th overall.