Past Events (2001)

MIT Invitational Team Tournament (October 20-21, 2001)

Last year's MIT Invitational Team Tournament took place October 20 and 21.

Final standings

1	New York (led by Chibing Wu)
2	Lake Placid (US Olympic training center)
3	North Shore
4	Maugus
5	MIT
6	Harvard
7	Connecticut
8	Massachusetts Juniors

The club would like to thank everyone who showed up and came to cheer for the MIT Team at the MIT Invitational Tournament. We continued the tradition of having the biggest and loudest cheering crowd. Our players also wore red shoelaces to show our unity and team spirit.

Big thanks go to Brandon and Vivian, the co-captains who devoted endless hours training and organizing the team. Special thanks goes to Patrick, Lily, Camille, and Vivian's father who all brought delicious food to feed us at the tournament.

Here are some pictures of the MIT Team at the tournament.

MIT placed 5th, after losing some very close matches to the 3rd placing team, North Shore. The New York Badminton club won the tournament decisively over Lake Placid US Olympic team. Harvard placed 6th overall.

MIT Intramural Season (September 24, 2001 through December 3, 2001)

During the Fall Semester, MIT's Intramural Program holds competition for Intramural Badminton. This year there are 3 Leagues, A-League (for advanced), B-League (for intermediate), and C-League (for beginners to learn and have fun). Any MIT student can participate! For further information about Intramural Badminton at MIT, contact Thomas Lin.

The Intramural Badminton standings for the Fall 2001 term can be accessed here, and the list of participating teams can be accessed here. For the regular season, the Class of 2003 team went undefeated to win A-league, and New House 4 went undefeated to win C-league. B-league had playoffs, but the results have not yet been announced.

MIT/BU/Harvard Intercollegiate Undergraduate Badminton League (November/December, 2001)

The MIT Badminton Club is proud to report that together with Boston University and Harvard University, we have formed a badminton league for undergraduates to represent their schools in intercollegiate badminton play. Our hope is that this will gradually evolve into a NCAA badminton league for colleges in the Northeast United States. Here is the current schedule:

Date	Teams	Result
Sunday November 11	MIT home - Harvard	MIT wins 4-3
Friday November 16	BU home - MIT	MIT wins 6-1
Tuesday November 20	Harvard home - BU	BU wins 5-2
Friday November 30	BU home - Harvard	BU wins 4-3
Sunday December 2	MIT home - BU	BU wins 4-3
Friday December 7	Harvard home - MIT	MIT wins 6-1

Here are the times:

Boston University Home games : Fridays 7 - 9.30pm
Harvard Home games: Tuesday or Friday 6.30 - 9.00pm
MIT Home games: Sundays 1 - 4pm

Here are the current standings:

Team	W	L	PF	PA
BU	3	1	14	14
MIT	3	1	19	9
Harvard	0	4	9	19

If you are an MIT Undergraduate student and you would like to participate, we would love to have you join the team. Badminton training (from our skilled coaches Brandon and Vivian) for the undergraduate team is held on Wednesday nights and Sunday afternoons. Come play badminton, learn, and compete! For more information about this, contact Yvonne Lee or Michael Ho.

MIT's undergraduate team defeated Harvard 4-3 for the Sunday November 11 match. We took the win early with Michael Ho's 15-3, 15-1 win on first mens singles, then Meryl Del Rosario/Thomas Lin's 15-2, 15-11 win on second mixed doubles, Linda Liang's 11-0, 11-0 win on first ladies singles, and Thomas Lin's 15-5, 15-11 win on second mens singles. Nini Duh, Rebecca Deng, Liam Bossi, Amerson Lin, Rachel Finck and Roger Li also played great games for the MIT undergraduate team.

MIT's undergraduate team defeated Boston University 6-1 for the Friday November 16 match. Linda Liang won 11-3, 11-4 on first ladies singles, Tim Lu won 15-5, 15-0 on second mens singles, Yvonne Lee and Linda Liang won 15-2, 15-3 on first womens doubles, Liam Bossi and Thomas Lin won 15-8, 15-4 on first mens doubles, Michael Ho and Yvonne Lee won 15-8, 15-6 on 1st mixed doubles, and Tim Lu and Nini Duh won 15-5, 15-3 on second mixed doubles. Michael Ho also played well on first mens singles, but unfortunately lost 12-15, 7-15 to Trevor Lai.

Unfortunately, MIT's undergraduate team lost to Boston University 3-4 for the Sunday December 2 match. BU presented a stronger lineup this time. MIT won the ladies singles, ladies doubles, and 2nd mixed doubles games.

MIT's undergraduate team defeated Harvard 6-1 for the Friday December 7 match. Linda Liang won 8-11, 11-8, 11-8 on first ladies singles. Linda Liang and Yvonne Lee won 15-3, 17-16 on first ladies doubles. Michael Ho won 15-5, 15-2 on first mens singles. Thomas Lin won 15-8, 15-11 on second mens singles. Michael Ho and Yvonne Lee won 13-15, 15-6, 15-11 on first mixed doubles. Thomas Lin and Liam Bossi won 12-15, 17-14, 15-8 on first mens doubles.

Our win against Harvard put the MIT undergraduate badminton team's final record at 3-1, in a tie with Boston University. A playoff game was played on Sunday, February 10 from 1pm to 4pm at MIT. BU won 4-3.