Badminton: H.H. Wilson’s Wu plays through a terrifying moment

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Hacienda Heights Wilson junior Qiu-Ming Wu, pictured, is playing in the quarterfinals of the Southern Section-Toyota badminton individual championships today, but the fact that she is playing anywhere is a testament to her strength.

On April 18, a student at Wilson made threats that he was going to shoot ‘a good majority of the badminton team’ on the school’s Wikipedia page. The story made international headlines.

Wu and the rest of the school’s badminton team were rattled and became extremely fearful, Coach Rex Lin said. The team members have put the ordeal behind them -- ‘time heals everything,’ he said -- but, ‘people should come down here and support her. The entire team has been through a lot.’

Wu is Wilson’s best chance at winning a title. The junior is the No. 2-seeded player in girls’ singles and is on track to play top-seeded Thuy Hoang of Garden Grove in the final. Hoang, a junior, just advanced by beating Baldwin Park’s Simone Truong, 11-0, 11-2, in less than 10 minutes.

-- Jaime Cardenas

--Image by Jaime Cardenas

[UPDATE: Wu lost to Hoang in the finals, 11-1, 6-11, 11-4. The second game win by Wu was Hoang’s only loss the entire day.]