2017 Women's Badminton News
For the third straight season, the Pasadena City College women's badminton team qualified an athlete for the CCCAA State Individual Championships finals match. Freshman Sarah Thaw, who helped PCC win its first-ever state team title on Thursday, took the second place medal in a 21-16, 21-8 loss to state champ Yukari Naono of Grossmont. The tournament was played at Mission College in Northern California's City of Santa Clara.
(SANTA CLARA, Calif.)--After 18 years that the sport has been offered, the Pasadena City College women's badminton team finally captured its first CCCAA State Championship, defeating Fresno City College, 11-10, in the title match Thursday at Mission College. The score was far from indicative of how things went as the Lancers clinched the match at 11-5 during the third round of play.
For the second straight season, the Pasadena City College women's badminton team is one step away from its first state title. The undefeated, 3-time defending South Coast Conference champion Lancers will play a rematch of last year's state final on Thursday, May 11 when they face defending state champion Fresno City College in the CCCAA State Championships match at Mission College in Santa Clara.
It was simple math that helped the Pasadena City College women's badminton team clinch its second straight trip to the CCCAA State Team championship match on Wednesday. Host Grossmont only had five available players to the normal 6-player ladder that the Lancers featured going into the Southern California title match.
The undefeated, South Coast Conference champion Pasadena City College women's badminton team travel to play Grossmont, the undefeated Pacific Coast Athletic Conference champs, in the Southern California championship match on Wednesday, May 3. The team final begins at 3 p.m.
Playing at No. 3 singles, Pasadena City College women's badminton freshman Natalie Ong didn't just win her two matches against East Los Angeles' No. 3 and No. 4 players on Friday. Ong played nearly perfect and incredibly only gave her opponents less points (three) than sets played (four) as PCC routed the Huskies, 20-1, at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team knows its a frontrunner in a quest for the program's first state team championship. The Lancers reaffirmed their standing by defeating North region De Anza for the second time this season, 19-2, Monday at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team clinched at least a tie for the South Coast Conference title Wednesday with its third shutout of El Camino-Compton Center this year, 21-0, at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team is having its easiest trip ever to a South Coast Conference title. With a 6-0 perfect record through two rounds of SCC play, the Lancers have outscored their opponents by the lopsided count of 121-5.
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team remained perfect at 5-0 this season with a 19-2 road victory over East Los Angeles in a South Coast Conference match Mar. 17. The Lancers extended their conference win streak to 25 matches, all under head coach Jen Ho, and are 4-0 to top the SCC thus far in 2017.
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team breezed over host De Anza College, 18-3, in a non-conference match Mar. 10 and then followed that with a bevy of individual wins at the Coast Conference round robin individual tournament Mar. 11 also held at De Anza in Northern California.
In her third season as head coach of the Pasadena City College women's badminton team, Jen Ho has never lost a South Coast Conference match. And at 24 consecutive wins and a 3-0 record thus far this year, it doesn't appear she will anytime soon.
The Pasadena City College women's badminton team opened the 2017 season by stretching its South Coast Conference winning streak to 22 matches, all under third-year head coach Jen Ho. The Lancers shut out visiting El Camino College-Compton Center, 21-0, Friday at Hutto-Patterson Gymnasium.