Congratulations Team Canada!

The 25th Pan Am Junior Championships – 2016 were played on July 15th – 23rd in Lima, Peru with participants coming from 19 regions:  Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, USA, Venezuela, and host country Peru.

Our team spanned from East to West and this young and talented group produced the following results:

Team Event Winner

Points

Played

Won

Draw

Lost

Matches

Games

Points

1

CANADA

4

2

2

0

0

9

1

19

5

485

326

Individual Events:

U19

GS:  Qingzi Ouyang (BC) – 1st Place

BD:  Desmond Wang (B-Active Badminton , AB) & Brian Yang (E Badminton, ON)- 1st Place

GD:  Giselle Chan (E Badminton, ON) & Katie Ho-Shue (E Badminton, ON) – 1st Place

XD:  Brian Yang & Katie Ho-Shue – 1st Place / Nicolas Nguyen (QC) & Alexandra Mocanu  (QC) – (3/4 place)

U17

BS:  Brian Yang – 1st Place

GS:  Katie Ho-Shue – 1st Place

GD:  Angela Chen (Lee’s Badminton, ON) & Belle Tuen (Machi, ON) – 2nd Place

U15

BS:  Darren Choi (Lee’s Badminton, ON) – (3/4 place)

GS:  Sharon Au (KC Badminton, ON) – 2nd Place

GD:  Sharon Au & Rebecca Lee (KC Badminton, ON) – (3/4 place)  /  Jeslyn Chow (KC Badminton, ON) &Tiffany Too (KC Badminton, ON) (3/4 Place)