Visit our WBC booth at the 16th Annual Woodstock Recreation and Leisure Fair! Members of our club will be happy to tell you about how you and your family can have fun and stay fit playing badminton and pickleball.
Where: Reeves Community Hall at Cowan Park Sportsplex (895 Ridgewood Drive)
When: Sunday, March 1, 2020
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
President Terry Dunnigan, announced today that Ross Struthers has joined the WBC board as House Director. Welcome to the team Ross.
The WBC held a special general meeting on January 21, 2020. At this session three new executive members of the board were elected and or acclaimed. Elected as president was Terry Dunnigan, a past board member. Acclaimed at the meeting was Neil Krushel as Vice president and Don Karges as Secretary. The new executives join existing board members, Wendy Clements (Treasurer), Dana Wells and Carol Bossenberry.
What does it take to win provincials? Zhao-Yu Tan of the Woodstock Badminton Club figured out the answer to that question Saturday, May 11, 2019 as he became the Jr. C Province of Ontario Under 19 men’s singles champion.
The tournament was held at the Progress Badminton Club in Scarborough, Ontario where 129 of Ontario’s top badminton athletes met to compete for provincial titles. Woodstock had five (5) players competing from their High Performance squad and had a strong showing from Tyler Atkinson who made it to the quarter finals, Braden Doucette who fought his way through the consolation side eventually losing in the semi-finals, and Will Waters and Ben Cougler who competed in both singles and boys doubles.
But the day unquestionably belonged to Zhao-Yu who, from the start of his first match, looked like a man on a mission. Zhao-Yu kept his opponents off balance with a mixed strategy of attack, strong defence and a finesse game which had shuttles barely scraping the tape of the net before they fell to his opponents side for the point. His smashing was fast, accurate and devastating. His footwork was flawless, giving him extreme range of movement around the court and his counter attack was timely and often indefensible by his opponents. Zhao-Yu masterfully kept his opponents guessing all day and mixed his strategy beautifully to keep them off balance.
In short, it was a dominating performance as his opponents struggled to gain more than 11 points from him in any game until the finals when the scores were 21-19 and 21-14.
Congratulations Zhao-Yu, the Woodstock Badminton Club, your coaches and teammates are very proud of you!