St. Marys and Notre Dame host ninth annual Mega Badminton Tournament over weekend

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on April 6, 2022.

Shuttlecocks were flying this weekend in Medicine Hat.

St. Mary’s School and Notre Dame Academy held their ninth annual Mega Badminton Tournament on Friday and Saturday, involving 30 junior high schools with roughly 675 badminton players playing nearly 1,400 games.

At the Grade 7 level, Brogan Verishine from Parkside took home the gold in the boys singles with Benjamin Rieger from Ecole les Cypres winning silver and Notre Dame’s Ethan Grad taking the bronze.

Isabella Ferguson from Ecole les Cypres took gold in the Grade 7 girls singles, with Parkside’s Jazlyn Green bringing home the bronze. In girls doubles, Izabel Austin and Kate Pogas from St. Mary’s were gold winners. Ocianna Spisak and Karsen Nigum finished in second place in mixed doubles for St. Marys, with Chloe Balai Yohan Tiomico taking bronze for the same school.

At the Grade 8 level, Carlin Messmer and Ryder Todd from St. Marys finished second and third in boys singles, respectively. Notre Dame’s Allyson Bonneville and Olivia Marshall took home the gold in girls doubles, with Peyton Booker and Joshua Lefebvre also winning gold, doing so in the mixed doubles for Parkside. Crescent Height’s Ayden Matthews and Coltyn Lebel finished second in mixed doubles.

At the Grade 9 level, Shawn Gripp from Notre Dame won gold in the boys singles division. Johnathan Marshall and Carson Small from St. Marys finished in third in boys doubles. Presell Andriaensen and Cheska Velilla won the gold for St. Marys in the girls doubles, while Sophie Kerr and Maddex Strothmann, also from St. Marys, won gold in the mixed doubles division.

St. Mary’s finished the two-day tournament in first place of all schools participating.