ELMS Badminton Tournament Is A Big Success!

An excerpt from a recent article in The Howard County Times written by Susan Lavin :

During physical education classes, many students competed in the ELMS badminton tournament. Skills had improved a lot this year and the competition was tough! Grade level winners for the singles games were:

Sixth grade: Austin Bennett, Gerardo Portillo

Seventh grade: Max Balter, Marcus Fedarko.

Eighth grade: Agil Jose, Jazlyn Nketia

"Despite the talents of many of our students, (ELMS principal) Mr. (Thomas) Saunders still remains the undefeated singles badminton champ at ELMS," Carol Jones said.

The winning doubles badminton teams from the sixth grade were Austin Bennett and Zach Ciepiela, Gerardo Portillo and Michael Xega.

The seventh-grade winners were Max Balter and Joey Grabowski, Andrew Accardi and Matt Marcin.

The doubles teams from eighth grade included Jazlyn Nketia and Michael Bullock and Blackburn and Michelle Amaya.

Principal Saunders selected student players as his doubles partner to challenge many of our doubles teams.

The double teams of Max Balter and Joey Grabowski and Tyler Lewis and Clay Bartnik defeated Saunders' doubles team in the competition. These seventh-grade boys earned "bragging rights" in badminton for their win! Way to go guys!

For the complete article, here is the link:

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Thanks to Carol Jones, Physical Education Teacher extraordinaire, for setting up this annual event for our students!