...showing their skills and athletic abilities to a successful closing of the badminton season.
Students from grades 7, 8 and 9 competed in the middle-school tier competition in Red Deer after previously finishing first or second in the CARA badminton earlier in the season.
The best finish for Stettler students was in Grade 7 mixed doubles, where Chase Cheater and Mignione Vogel took a silver place finish. Both Corbin Bredy in boys' singles and Brooke Mulgrove in girls singles, both Grade 7, finished in fourth place, just missing out on medals.
Grade 7 mixed doubles Will Brennan and Sydney Nattestad and girls' doubles Kyla Hansel and Willow Sorenson played well at the competition, making it to finals but found themselves falling just short, according to coach Brett Nixon.
“Our Grade 7s did fairly well,” he said. “They've played well all season.”
Though Grade 8 birdie-batters didn't finish as well as the Grade 7s, the mixed doubles team of Holden Perry and Rebecca Bridge managed to notch some successes before being eliminated in the run-up to the finals. Boys' doubles Greyson Loshny and Isaac Hernando also played very well, Nixon said, just falling short of making it into the semi-finals.
Grade 9 results were not available at press time.