The 2025 badminton season concluded with the individual tournament at Edina on Thursday with both number one seeds taking the top prize. Both had to win six matches in one day.

In singles Johnson’s Su Meh beat Gaozia Vue of Harding in three sets. Meh had to rally down one set and had to claw her way back in the third ending up on top in extra points 19-21, 21-16, 26-24. That first set was the only set loss for the Governor all day. The final four for singles all featured St. Paul players, with two of them second singles on their squads: Harding’s Linda Chang and Como Park’s Tsuki Solheid. Solheid made her way to the final four by beating two former number one players Kennedy’s Kateryna Mykhailovich and Edina’s Hazel Dang. Chang got to the final four with upending Central’s Lennon Folstad in the sweet 16 round and then topping Edina’s number three Evelyn Ge in the quarterfinals. Chang finished third giving Harding the silver and bronze.

Su Meh becomes the sixth singles champs for the Governors. Johnson won the singles banner seven times with Olamide Fadahunsi winning twice. The last Johnson Governor to win was Song Yang.

In doubles the Edina pair of Sanna Coma and Ivy Peterson swept all opponents in their march to their second straight title. They topped Burnsville’s Katie Murray and Natalie Portwood in the title match 21-17, 21-8. The Blaze only lost to one doubles team all year and that was Coma and Peterson five times. Coma and Peterson, in twelve sets Thursday, held their opponents to single digits eight times. The Hornet pair never lost a set all year. The Blaze face three straight Hornet teams today. The Blaze doubles beat the Edina 3 in the quarters and Edina 2 in the semis on the road to the championship. C&P weren’t the only medalists for the Hornets. Bergan Pickett & Juman Alkhatib finished fourth.

Just as the final four singles were exclusively a St. Paul show, the doubles had a definite suburban color. Highland Park’s Alice Verbrugge & Violet Solem Valentine were the only St. Paul duo to crash that party. The Scots finished third overall.

This was the first time for a repeat since Harding’s Mai Tria Lee/Kaabao Yang turned the trick in 2005 & 2006.

There is still a lot to unpack from Thursday. There is much to digest in terms of stats and numbers plus breaking down tape. Once that is complete, it will go to print.

First: the box scores for the entire event.

Second the breakdown of the singles and doubles. Both were recorded but……because the third singles set went to extra points the tape ran out. Luckily I was able to get the back up camera up and running with only missing a few points.

Third: a recap of the year.

This will all take time.