Next event:

NOTE: The students are going going to run their own club website, which will be posted here shortly. There are also facebook club facebook community, and since 2013 the badminton club is has a presence on OrgSync and now there's also terplink, and even more recently Linktree.
As always: you have to be a UMD member and you need to pre-register to play. Although not required, it is highly recommended to also subscribe to the badminton club mailing list, but there also appears to be another google based mailing list, where you can sign up from via the club web page.

University of Maryland Badminton Club

Badminton at the University of Maryland is a student operated and student funded sports club. Membership is open to all UMCP faculty, staff, students and alumni (this does not include spouses by CRS rules). There are quite a few local badminton clubs if you don't belong to the UMD community. The club only plays when classes are in session (fall, spring and summer, with typically a few weeks break inbetween) and we play in the SPH/North Gym (building 225) where we have 10 hardwood floor courts. The university has no fellowships in badminton. In the spring of 1998 the Eppley Rec Center (ERC) was opened, which will also have a new 8-court badminton gym. Currently open-rec badminton can normally be played on Saturdays 7-10pm and Sunday 10am-2pm on 2 courts (yes, we know, there are 8 courts in this gym, 4 of them brilliantly obstructed by heavy basketball contraptions, and usually 2 courts can be used for badminton, and 2 for another sport).

You can also play badminton during the open hours in the ERC building, but this is not Badminton Club associated. You might find some of us playing during these hours though. CRS is also organizing intramurals, in which badminton used to be played. Finally, the University also offers a credited class in badminton ( KNES 202).

The current officers are: (for general contact and informtion use badterpsminton@gmail.com)

President:
Vice-President:
Secretary:
Treasurer:
Equipment Officer:
Tournament Coordinator:
Travel Liason:
SGA Liason:
Surgeon General:
Faculty advisor: Peter Teuben (teuben@astro.umd.edu) - 301-405-1540

Notes

The Badminton Club also has a USAB club membership, which entitles our members to participate in USAB sanctioned tournaments In addition, there is the Northeast Badminton Association, of which we are a member.
North East Badminton Association (USBA region 1) - the new web page.
We have a constitution (by law of course)
Here is a list of all members and alumni who keep a personal home page.
Members need to follow a registration procedure.
Pictures...pictures....pictures
A record of our team matches
Here is a list of web references that refer to us.
Consult the campus calendar if you want to organize events.
You can order your supplies or repair rackets with Ronney
My notes on tourney math and how to run a tournament
During the 2011/2012 season we unhappily played in the Armory. See also some pictures of us in the Armory. It's a nice big gym (can have up to 16 courts), but is not very suitable for badminton. Tournament play is very difficult, because of the windows. Also, no lockers/showers.

Upcoming Events in the DC area

First you can consult other tournament lists:

our own attempt at a perpetual calendar (with entries for the previous and current event. This calendar also has links to NE Region and USAB listings.

Other interesting sites/links

BADMINTON home page, maintained by Stan Bischof (with lot's of WWW links).
USAB (USA Badminton) web site.
the badminton site for Region I of the USA
Massachusetts Badminton Association (a wiki site)
Loch Raven badminton club
Pennsylvania Badminton
Collegiate Badminton home page (old) and the new (summer2007) Collegiate Badminton home page.
UMBC Badminton, our sibling institution.
alt.sports.badminton newsgroup (mostly spam now)
run by the NE Region.
Play Badminton website (also have several active message boards)
Student Organizations at the University of Maryland
Badminton in the local DC and Baltimore area
Other sources of information:
- DCBadminton@yahoogroups.com mailing list, see also yahoo groups website
- alt.sports.badminton usenet newsgroup.
- A mailing list. Send a message to UUDP@pegasus.ping.dk, with the subject line "SUBSCRIBE badminton-l". There are some posting restrictions, but the list administrator will tell you about that.
  The new SHUTTLENWS messages are also posted to this mailing list.
- ICR chat. We have a weekly ICR Chat discussion on #badminton (well, we did for a while, it seems to be asleep right now)
Other related sports?
- speedminton, with stiff heavy rackets and a shuttle half the size of a badminton shuttle. No nets. See also speedmintoncenter.com
- footbag a.k.a. Hacky Sack. They (can) use the badminton court, being 20x44' (in doubles, badminton singles uses 17x44'), use volleybal rules. They play with a small bean bag that they can only touch with their feet.
- Pickleball: a game played with a wiffle ball and a paddle within a badminton court. The net is at 34" though (unlike badminton, which is 60/61"). See http://www.usapa.org and http://www.pickleballstuff.com.
- goodminton: as seen on a t-shirt....

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