Freshman The freshmen ended their season with a bang this week! We started the week out with a convincing win over OPRF (12-3) on Monday only to fall to Maine South on Tuesday. But that did not deter our freshmen! We went into our final tournament, hosting the Hornet Invitational, with determination. We ended up winning our own tournament with all of our athletes placing in the top 3 for their position: #1 singles - Maddy Herrada 3rd place #2 singles - Laila Malik 1st place #3 singles - Ashley Valiathara 2nd place #4 singles - Lilija Kenton 2nd place #1 doubles - Molly McNeil and LJ Chiong 3rd place #2 doubles - Amanda Chan and Alex Glover 2nd place #3 doubles - Sara Gagoski and Marci Espinoza 2nd place #4 doubles - Shashi Murphy and Mia Isidro 1st place
Week of April 21st
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Week of April 14th
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Freshman The freshmen team has a rough start to our week with a loss to Waubonsie Valley. But, they bounced back in amazing fashion. They won 10-5 against conference rival Willowbrook and 15-0 against another conference team DGS. We hosted an invitational this weekend and continued to play tough taking 2nd in the tournament. So much success this weekend: Alex Glover and Molly McNeil took 4th in #1 Doubles, Brenna Chan and Mia Isidro took 3rd in #2 Doubles, LJ Chiong and Amanda Chen took 5th in #3 Doubles, Mady Thomas took 2nd in #1 Singles, Ashley Valiathara took 2nd in #2 Singles, Laila Malik took 3rd in #3 Singles and Lilija Kenton took 3rd place in #4 singles. Our biggest celebration was that our #4 Doubles team (Marci Espinoza and Sara Gagoski) took 1st place for the 2nd week in a row! Way to go Freshmen Badminton!
Week of April 7th
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Freshman The freshmen badminton team had an awesome week! They started the week with two wins against Morton and Addison Trail - 13-2 against each team. They also played in the Glenbard North Invitational and came in 2nd! The big winners for the weekend included a 1st place finish in #3 doubles by Marci Espinoza and Sara Gagoski. Ashley Valiathara placed 2nd in 3rd singles as did Mia Isidro in 4th singles. Mady Thomas placed 4th in #1 singles as did Moly McNeil and Amanda Chen in 2nd doubles. It was an amazing week for the freshmen team!🐝🐝🐝
Week of March 24th
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Freshman The freshmen badminton team had a great weekend. We started off the week winning a dual meet against west Chicago HS. We then did well in our quad at Lake Park HS winning against Naperville Central and Wheaton Warrenville South but falling short against Lake Park. The highlight of the week was finishing in second one point behind Matea Valley. Maddy Herrada was outstanding with a 1st place finish at#2 singles. Mady Thomas took 2nd at #1 singles and LJ Chong and Mia Isidro took 2nd at #3 doubles while all other athletes took 3rd place in their position. A great end to a fun week!
Week of March 17th
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JV The JV Badminton team kicked off the first week of competition with a series of competitive matchups. The team tied with Lyons Township and Lincoln Way West at Wednesday’s quad. During Thursday’s quad, the competition was challenging. Kudos to Kristina Giannakoupolos for her great attitude and mentality during a day of tough matches. On Saturday, the team ventured to Glenbard East for the first invite of the season. Congratulations to Miley Zhang for placing 2nd (#1 Singles) and shoutout to Adrianna Ibarra for jumping in at 4 Singles to support the team.
Freshman The freshmen badminton team played in a tri at Lincolnway West with a win against LT and a tie against Lincolnway West. We also played in a quad at Lockport and ended with 1 win, 1 tie and 1 loss. Mandy Valthiara won all but one match in singles and Ashley Valiathara and Alex Glover won all but one match as well in doubles. We played in a tournament at Naperville Central and took 5th place. Stand-outs for the tournament were Maddy Herrada taking 4th at #2 singles, Brenna Chan and Amanda Chen took 4th at #2 doubles and Sasha Murphy and Lilija Kenton took 4th in #4 doubles. It was a great first week of competition!