Thunder Bay's Kylo Lake takes a shot during badminton play at Superior CVI on Saturday.
Northern Ontario's badminton team had a tough start to its 2024 Ontario Winter Games campaign, but their coach remains hopeful they'll find their way to the podium.Thunder Bay's Kayo Lake returns a shot during badminton play at Superior CVI on Saturday. Team Northern Ontario has hopes of getting to the podium, but will have to make up some ground on Sunday.
NOBA covers a very large territory, Tempelmans Plat said, stretching from the North Bay area west to the Manitoba border. There are 12 athletes on the team this year, mostly from North Bay; Sudbury, Thunder Bay, and Manitouwadge are also represented on the roster, however. "I tried to fight through, tried to get it for our region, but just wasn't able to pull it through in the end."
"Our numbers in juniors have pretty much doubled in every region," he said. "Even here in Thunder Bay, I'm hearing we need to have more coaching clinics.""It's always been supported from certain cultural communities, say the Asian community," he said. "Now it's much more than that. The the venues, the players, the families, they're coming from all parts of the world, and it's one of the largest sports around the world, of course.
"Even at this level here we're watching, Ontario Winter Games, we have some of the highest-level athletes in the game and they're hitting the shuttle very close to those speeds at times."
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