Canadian Colleges’ Athletic Association All-Canadian Kathleen Lougheed won a silver medal in badminton at the national championships.
The first-year Douglas College Royal took second place at the Canadian college championships following a 21-17, 21-18 loss to Northern Alberta Institute of Technology student Yang Sun in the women’s singles final in Edmonton on Saturday.
Lougheed, who took over as player/coach of the Douglas College badminton team midway through the season, advanced to the final with a three-set win over Ontario No. 2 Yan Zhou earlier in the day.
Lougheed went 5-1 through the preliminary round robin. Her only loss was a similar 21-16, 21-16 defeat to Sun in Round 3 of the nationals.
Lougheed’s second-place medal was the ninth consecutive time a Douglas women made it to the finals at the nationals.
RuiLin Huang won five straight singles titles for Douglas from 2009 to 2013.
