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Saipan goes badminton-crazy

The Olympic sport of badminton continued its climb to become part of the island's regular program with the Northern Marianas Badminton Federation working overtime to start its grassroots development program.

NMBF held two successful tournaments and its first youth clinic as part of the Division of Youth and Services-organized Summer Youth Sports Camp.

NMBF's membership is reaching close to 150 as evidenced by the participation in the Traders Insurance/PTI Cup last May and the Inaugural NMBF Mixed Team Competition by the end of the year.

In both tournaments, almost 70 percent of the members joined with close to 80 players competing in the mixed team tournament.


(Saipan Tribune)