BADMINTON
A fun and interesting year where we trained hard and laughed harder.
This badminton season has been highly competitive and challenging, gaining strong new members, but also having to let go of old teammates as they move on from Sevenoaks. With a new unfamiliar team, we’ ve played an impressive spread of matches this year, taking on schools across Kent. From tense 5-4 wins decided in the last rally, to dominant 8-1 victories, it has been fun.
Each and every one of the players brought something special to the team, whether it was impossible saves, crazy smashes or keeping morale high when we were low. It has been a tough but brilliant season, and we will all miss the Upper Sixth next year, especially team captain Aryav Jain.
Ricky Shen, Lower Sixth
I remember specifically the last match of the season, against Epsom College. After a little more than half an hour of driving with just a bit too much sun falling through the windows, we arrived at Epsom and went in to get warm, passing their squash courts on the way. We were playing as a 1st team of four mixed pairs, with a two-pair 2nd team – I played with Sandra Ngo and of our matches we won one, drew one and lost only against their first pair. It was similarly close for all the other games, coming down to the last two matches at five games each: after securing one win in those last two, Aryav Jain and Jayci Yau pushed ahead and managed to beat Epsom’ s first pair too and win us the match in style! Quite a way to end the season and thank you especially to Aryav Jain for an amazing last season at Sevenoaks. Also, many thanks to Dr Owen for all the badminton, as ever.
Max Whitby-Smith, Lower Sixth
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