Ben is our Head Coach, and he was previously the Captain of Melbourne University's Intervarsity Badminton team for 5 years (Australia). After graduating from Engineering and Commerce, he sold his soul by consulting for McKinsey in Australia, Taiwan, and UK. Ben is now studying an MBA at Stanford, and is also trying to teach Stanford badminton players to say `shuttle' instead of `bird' (not successful yet).

Bryan is a Computer Science grad student doing research in visualization. While years of training with the great Master Soong in Ottawa, Canada left him with middling racquet skills, he never really learned what feet are for.

Hui-Chun really loves footwork.

Veronica is a graduate student in Management Science and Engineering. She was born in Hong Kong, studied in Singapore, but is now thinking that California is really the most awesome place on earth for her to go skiing, surfing, scuba diving, and well, badminton too. She is probably the only person who hates footwork in the team because she claims that she has two left feet (she always feel "very" sorry for her social dance partner).

Kin is a sophomore in environmental engineering from Malaysia who completed high school at Geelong Grammar, Australia. Other than badminton, his interests include cricket, AFL, rugby and pubs in general. "May it be remembered that it was I who catalysed the golden age of Stanford Badminton."

Visiting grad student from Denmark (the greatest badminton nation of all!). Research in petroleum engineering. Has an MSc in chemical engineering. Other interests: hiking, running, traveling. ( homepage)

Amy is a freshman with an undeclared major. Her hometown is Los Angeles, where she lives with her parents and older sister. She loves the color orange and also enjoys (besides badminton) scrapbooking, early mornings, and penguins.

Katrina really loves footwork.

Michael is from Saratoga, CA. He is a badminton machine, though more along the lines of a stapler or hole-puncher than a killer cyborg.

Sudan really loves footwork.

Apoorva really loves footwork.

Akshay is a graduate student in Management Science and Engineering. He started playing badminton during his undergrad days at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and represented his university at inter-collegiate meets. He is pretty much a game for any sport including tennis, cricket, and soccer. His other strong interests include social dance, movies, and music. He somehow manages to do academics in between these activities.

30 years old, studied in Bern/Switzerland, got a PhD in mathematics in 2006, postdoc in Stanford's statistics department. Started badminton at the age of 11 (1988), played until winter 2006, started again in Stanford. Other interests: Hiking, running, discovering california, reading newspapers. (homepage)

Brian is a junior majoring in Biomedical Computation. He was raised in Irvine, CA and spent his youth playing club badminton at Irvine Badminton Club. Besides badminton, Brian also plays the viola in various chamber groups on campus.

Patrick really loves footwork.

Ying is a graduate student in computer science. You are encouraged read her papers at her homepage, where you may also find more pictures of hers.