Women’s badminton wins first state battle

By Ryan Kuhn
The Guardsman

Coming up short in two previous attempts, City College’s women’s badminton team can finally call themselves state champions.

In 2006 and 2009 the Rams lost in the state title game but this year they defeated Pasadena City College to complete a perfect 9-0 season.

In the ten years badminton has been part of community college athletics, CCSF was the first Northern California team to win the state championship. Previous champions were San Diego Mesa, San Diego City and Irvine Valley colleges.

Maggie Choy and Janice Wong came back from an 11-6  deficit in the final match against the Lancers to finally put PCC away 21-12, 11-21, 21-18.

This game snapped a Pasadena’s 13-match winning streak.