Dear club members,
Welcome to the Badminton Club! The Badminton Club aims to provide a space for the UMBC community to play badminton while learning the fundamentals of the sport. Members will have the opportunity to play in intercollegiate tournaments with other teams across universities in Maryland. For the Fall 2022 semester, our club will meet biweekly on Saturdays from 12-2 p.m. in the RAC (court 3).
Unfortunately, this semester UMBC decided not to provide racquets to students, as UMBC spent a lot of money on racquets, and last semester when officers were not present at the site, students were provided badminton racquets and were responsible for breaking many of them. We did all that we could to convince them but it was a strict no.
We will provide shuttlecocks but you will be responsible for bringing your own racquets.
We completely understand if you decide to change your mind about being in the club after reading the new update and we are sorry to see you go. But for the members, even if you do not have a racquet, we suggest that you still come as many members might share their racquets for some time so you still might get to play. The first meeting for the semester is this Saturday, 09/17/22 for which the sign-up sheets will be provided soon. The sign-up sheets work in a first-come-first-serve manner but you will be given the link a few days ago.
We sincerely apologize for mentioning that the racquets will be provided like last semester but they won't be provided this semester. This new update was brought to our attention just a few days ago and we are still working on it if we can still change anything. We will keep providing updates through the links below:
Discord: https://discord.gg/dWKH6uP7
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/umbc.badminton/
Other than the above links, the club officers and their emails are listed below. Feel free to email us anytime :)
President: Yulung Chen: ychen12@umbc.edu
Vice-President: Akanksha Sharma: asharma6@umbc.edu
Treasurer: Daniel Yang: dyang2@umbc.edu
Secretary: Nandini Rajpara: nandinr1@umbc.edu
Can't wait to meet you guys soon :)
Badminton Club