2024 Badminton Season Wrap: Winning Streaks, Final Standings, Singles, Doubles and Coaching Leaderboards

WINNING STREAKS

Johnson holds the top honors with a 75 dual match winning streak stretching across four seasons 2016 to 2019. Washington was the last to beat them on April 12, 2016 and the Eagles ended the streak with a 4-3 victory on May 3, 2019.

Edina’s current total is 23 over the past two seasons. They would need more than two undefeated seasons to match the Governors. The Hornets could move to a top three slot with another unblemished mark in 2025.

Johnson 2016-19             75
Johnson 2012-14             47
Harding 2008-10              43
Harding 2005-08             40

SAINT PAUL

SCHOOL CW CL TW TL
Johnson 9 3 13 4
Washington 9 3 14 5
Como Park 8 4 13 5
Highland Park 8 4 12 8
Harding 5 7 11 9
Central 2 10 2 13
Humboldt 1 11 4 13

MINNEAPOLIS

SCHOOL CW CL TW TL
Roosevelt 11 1 14 6
Henry 11 1 11 3
Edison 6 6 7 8
Washburn 6 6 6 8
South 3 9 3 11
North 3 9 3 11
Southwest 1 11 1 13

SUBURBAN

SCHOOL CW CL TW TL
Edina 8 0 18 0
Eden Prairie 5 3 8 7
Kennedy 5 4 9 8
North St. Paul 3 4 8 10
Tartan 1 4 7 8
Burnsville 1 8 3 12
Fridley 0 1 0 2

EMAC+

SCHOOL CW CL TW TL
Math & Science 9 0 13 3
Hmong CPA 6 2 6 7
Community of Peace 6 5 7 7
Hiawatha 3 6 3 8
Twin City Academy 0 9 0 10
Eagle Ridge* 2 2 2 3
Prairie Seeds* 2 4 3 4

SCHOOL WIN LEADERS SINGLES / DOUBLES IN 2024

Below are each school’s top win totals in singles or doubles. If only one is listed at doubles it is because that individual had wins with multiple partners.

Bold indicate 20 or more wins.

SCHOOL SINGLES DOUBLES
Burnsville Jasmine Tran 9 Katie Murray / Natalie Portwood 17
Central Mayson Yelk 13 Clara Rynkiewich / Lucy Dosch 14
Community of Peace Alexa 11 Chelsey / Sha Sha 8
Como Park Xee Lee, Niko Solheid 18 Daychia Her / Tha Blay Htoo 12
Eagle Ridge Joshna JS 4 Koting/ Hirano & Subhan / Henderson 1
Eden Prairie May Varikuti 9 Aashna Dhirti 8
Edina Hazel Dang 24 Ivy Peterson/ Sanna Coma 26
Edison Amelia Larson 16 Hasiba 6
Fridley none none
Harding Kimberly Tobar 26 Isabella Gutierrez / Nay Gay 17
Henry Shayla Thao 18 Mckayla Vue / Lillian Vang 14
Hiawatha Anahi,  Vanessa 2 3 with 1
Highland Park Phlower Vang 31 Bety Shiferaw / Edi Damiyo 16
Hmong Academy Cassus Lee 9 Angelina Yang 7
Humboldt Wah Chri Paw 7 Lah Sher / Say Paw 7
Johnson Su Meh 16 Dao Sangwang / Goldy Moua 22
Kennedy Kateryna Mykhailovich 12 Felicity Jensen / Kehan Chen 7
Math & Science Emily Balandin 13 Adri Tacheny / Pranu Vedere 15
North Mynia, Tilli, Toni 2 Kymani / Sanae 5
North St. Paul Isabelle Yang 8 Jolena Young / Claire Yang 16
Prairie Seeds Mai Choua Thao 2 3 with 3
Roosevelt Mollie Anderson, Sophie Mitchell 14 Maire / Ayida 17
South Angelina Gomez-Kubes, Luci McComas 8 Isabel / Nina 10
Southwest Hanne 4 Railu / Tusmo 2
Tartan Kalia Xiong 15 Gwendalyn Vang 10
Twin City Academy Belinda, Yisha 2 Yisha / Xingying 2
Washburn Lily Brauer 7 Isabella / Soleil 12
Washington Ma K Moo 13 Say Paw / Gay Ler Htoo 21

2024 SINGLES LEADERBOARD

Here is the leaderboard for most wins the past four years. Here are the players with 40 singles wins. Doubles wins are not included. Wins are counted at all four flights. This is not limited to first singles wins. That list would be different. This does not include records prior to 2018. More work needs to be done to bring it up to date.

CAREER WIN LEADER

  1. Phlower Vang, Highland Park 84
  2. Sunshine Vang, Highland Park 64
  3. Tenzin Tsephel, Edina 54
  4. HaNeul Jeong-McDonnel 48
  5. Maddie Blackbourn, Burnsville 46
  6. Hazel Dang, Edina 43
  7. Kanlaya Thao, Harding 42
  8. Sandy Vang, Johnson 40

For those curious about Harding’s Kimberly Tobar she has 31 career singles wins plus 17 doubles wins.

PHLOWER VANG’S CAREER

Here is Phlower Vang’s record over the last four years (wins-losses, margin per set)
2021      9-9         -0.11
2022      17-4       5.61
2023      27-5       6.55
2024      31-1       6.30

By flight

1st singles            32-1       .970
2nd singles           28-6       .824
3rd singles           21-11    .656
4th singles            3-1          .750
overall:                 84-19    .816

Lost first set: 28 times (won 12 of them)
three set matches: 22-8
Extra point wins
1st set: 3
2nd set: none
3rd set: none

DOUBLES LEADERBOARD 2024

Here are the overall leaders for doubles (in the past few years).

OVERALL

  1. Ivy Peterson, Edina 61
  2. Birdy Xiong, Johnson 60
  3. Sanna Coma, Edina 58
  4. Faith Moua, Johnson 48
  5. Dao Sangwang, Johnson 43
  6. Alexis Xiong, Johnson 43
  7. Leah Merid, Burnsville 41

IVY PETERSON’S CAREER

Here is Ivy Peterson’s record over the last three years (wins-losses, margin per set)
2022 11-5            3.45
2023 24-2           6.90
2024 26-1            9.44
totals: 61-8        7.10

By flight

1st doubles         50-3       8.13
2nd doubles        4-3         1.86
3rd doubles         6-2         5.15
overall:                 61-8       7.10

Lost first set: 11 times (won 3 of them)
three set matches: 9-1 2.30
Extra point wins
1st set: 4-0
2nd set: 0-1
3rd set: 1-1

By partner

Sanna Coma             50-3               8.13
Gabrielle Monnot    11-5               3.45
Total                               61-8               7.10

SANNA COMA’S CAREER

By year

2021      1-0              5.00
2022      8-4              5.50
2023      24-2           6.90
2024      26-2           9.08
Totals: 59-8           7.53

By flight

1st doubles       50-4                 8.03
2nd doubles      6-4                    5.35
3rd doubles       3-0                    5.83

Lost first set: 9 times (won 2 of them)
three set matches: 8-2 1.83
Extra point wins
1st set: 5-0
2nd set: 0-1
3rd set: 2-0

By partner

Ivy Peterson     50-3                 8.20
Nora Ritter        8-4                    5.50
Anna Olson      1-0                    0.00
Leanor                0-1                    -0.67
Total                     59-8                 7.53

COACHING RECORDS

CAREER WINS

This is just the St. Paul coaches listed so far. This is not complete by any stretch.

Have records? Send them to kja8067@gmail.com.

346 Tracy Hrouda, Harding (1997-2022)
197 Brian Reinhardt, Central (2000-2024)
187 Mark Fischbach, Johnson (2013-2023)
155 Marcus Lane, Washington (2012-2024)
98 Gary Whipple, Como Park / Johnson (1985-2007)
91 Wayne Hopkins, Como Park (1980-2004)

SEASONS

25 Tracy Hrouda, Harding (1997-2022)
24 Brian Reinhardt, Central (2000-2024)
19 Charles Skinner, Highland Park (1978-1996)
18 Gary Whipple, Como Park (1985-1993), Johnson (1999-2007)
17+ John Becker, Eden Prairie (200?-2024)
17 Bobbi Fitzenberger, Highland Park (1997-2013)
16 Wayne Hopkins, Como Park (1980-1984; 1994-2004)

MORE STATE TOURNAMENT FUN FACTS

SINGLES

In the first set two players lost and came back and won.

six matches lasted three sets.

The longest scoring set (any set) was in round one when Mollie Anderson of Roosevelt beat Mallory Heaser of North St. Paul 26-24 in the second set.

The average scores for sets
1: 20.6 to 12.4, two sets went to extra points
2: 20.8 to 13.1, three sets went to extra points
3: 21.0 to 13.3, no sets went to extra points.

DOUBLES

In the first set six pairs lost and came back to win. Burnsville’s Katie Murray and Natalie Portwood did it three times.

Eight matches went on to three sets. Again Murray and Portwood were 3-0 in those matches. North St. Paul’s Jolena Young and Claire Yang;  Como Park’s Lisa Troung and Tsuki Solheid and Washington’s Say Paw and Gay Ler Htoo split on the day.

The longest match of the day was with Henry’s Aniya Vang and Aleena Yang against Washburn’s UIsabella and Soleil 24-22 in the first set. The Millers bounced back to take the next two sets. The longest third set was Burnsville’s Katie Murray and Natalie Portwood’s 22-20 win over North St. Paul’s Jolena Young and Claire Yang.

The average scores for sets
1: 20.3 to 12.9, four sets went to extra points
2: 20.9 to 12.5, two sets went to extra points
3: 21.1 to 13.6, one set went to extra points

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