2000 North East Regional Badminton Championships

Hosted by Swarthmore College under the supervision of coach Dan Sears 66 players from 8 colleges gathered in the Swarthmore gym and battled for the Eastern Collegiate titles. The titles were fairly evenly spread between the two domineering team from Howard U. and U. Penn, with a slight edge to Howard in most categories. Not surprisingly Howard took the team trophy back from U Penn who won it last year.

Here are the detailed results:

Individual results: Main Draw

MS: Ademola Ogunseye (HU) - Arthur Alexander (HU) : 15-5, 15-5.
WS: Nicole Boehner (BWC) - Lauren Ernst (AC) : 11-7, 13-11.
MD: Ademola Ogunseye / Arthur Alexander (HU) - Micheal Foo/Sanjeev Mohan (UP) : 15-3, 17-14.
WD: Lauren Ernst/Kim Price (AC) - Siobhan Carty/Karen Lange (SC) : 15-7,15-10. Action!
XD: Ademola Ogunseye/Pansy Boldeau (HU) - Nicole Boehner/Ben Cheng (BMC/UMD) : 15-7, 15-1. Action!

Individual results: Consolations Draw

MS: Jerimaine Reid (HU) - Akbar Muhammad (HU) : 21-9.
WS: Taura Taylor (HU) - Alishia Zimmerman (HU) : 21-13.
MD: Jerimaine Reid/Daryl McCartney (HU) - Ben Cheng/Jason House (UMD) : 21-7.
WD: Andrea Dennis/Kristy Stutz (AC) - Ying Liu/Phorllie Hong (UP) : 23-21.
XD: Divyang Masravi/Tang Lim (UP) - Johnita Denson/Akbar Muhammad (HU) : 21-19.

Teams:

AC    Allbright College (Reading, PA)
BMC   Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)
HC    Haverford College (PA)
HU    Howard University (Washington, DC)
SC    Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA)
UMD   University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
UP    U Penn (Philadelphia, PA)
WM    College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA)

Team Points

In the main draw singles 1,2,3,4, and 5 points were awarded to advancing in each subsequent round resp., for doubles this was 1,2,3 and 4 points. In consolations the point divison was 1/2, 1, 1 1/2, and 2 in singles, and 1/2, 1 and 1 1/2 in doubles. Here are the final scores, with many thanks to Botum Chhay (BMC) for help compiling these numbers.

       total              av.pts./
school points   players    player
HU     89 1/2   12          7.5
UP     62 1/2   16          3.91
AC     27        7          3.86
BMC    25 3/4    9          2.9
SC     14 1/2   11          1.3
UMD     8 1/2    2          4.0
WM      5        6          0.8
HC      1        3          0.3

Pictures

If you follow this link, it should take you to an index of all the pictures I took. Raw from the camera, no editing, no excuses..... Some are pretty scary. The ones that are linked on this page are also included in this link.

21-feb-2000, PJT ( teuben@astro.umd.edu).