Samrye Jungang Elementary School badminton club / Photo = Provided by Samrye Jungang Elementary School
The badminton club of Samrye Jungang Elementary School (Principal Koh Kyung-seok), which has won the Jeonbuk region badminton girls’ elementary school team championship after two years since its foundation, is a hot topic.
Samrye Jungang Elementary School badminton team won the women’s elementary school team event in the final selection for the Jeonbuk national team at the 51st National Youth Athletic Competition held at Gochang County Indoor Gymnasium from April 1st to 3rd. 6th grader Dan-ah Park (captain), and 5th graders Si-eun Park, Min-ju Jang, Hye-jeong Yang, and Da-in Kim competed and won the championship.
Samrye JoongAng Elementary School badminton club was founded in 2020 (former principal’s term of office) at the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak. achieved the same result.
Samrye JoongAng Elementary School badminton club taking a fighting pose / Photo = Courtesy Samrye JoongAng Elementary School
The Samrye Jungang Elementary School badminton club was founded two years ago with active support under the purport that it was necessary to discover and nurture badminton world stars while the current head of the national athlete village Yoo In-tak served as the secretary general of the Jeollabuk-do Sports Association.
In addition, the need to provide opportunities to overcome poor sports welfare and sports culture environment for families in rural areas, along with career guidance that instills dreams and hopes in students from single-parent and multi-child families, also contributed to the foundation of Wanju-gun’s multiculturalism, basic livelihood security and demand for living arrangements.
In fact, among the 16 players from the 2nd to 6th graders of Samrye Jungang Elementary School, 10 are students from multicultural families or from basic livelihood security, single parents, and multi-child families.
Currently, the Jeonbuk Provincial Office of Education and the Wanju Office of Education are providing administrative and financial support for the development of the women’s badminton club, and the Jeonbuk Sports Science Center of the Sports Association is also supporting a quarterly fitness improvement program.
Leader Jo Hee-young said, “If we continue to support our players with basic physical strength and basic training, we will be able to restore the reputation of Jeollabuk-do, the strongest badminton player in the past, comparable to that of Jung So-young and Kim Dong-moon. If you give it to me, I think that a world star will come out of Samrye Central,” he said.
Reporter Baek Se-jong
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