The Deerfield badminton team won 10 of the 18 divisions at the CSL Tournament to capture its first CSL crown since 2007, when the Warriors were tri-champions.
Deerfield was co-champ the year before that. This is the first time that the Warriors have won an outright conference title in coach Edee Madsen’s 14 years in charge.
“We wanted to win for our team and we wanted to do it for our coach because she’s the best,” said Deerfield senior Cara Silverman, who finished second at No. 1 singles behind New Trier’s Audrey Mang.
Two days before Monday’s Sectional Complex meeting, Madsen said she had not yet chosen her sectional lineup. The coach said she still was trying to figure out how to use senior Marissa Levy, who had been the team’s No. 1 singles player until a serious ankle injury kept her out for much of the season.
Levy has been back in the lineup for two weeks and even won No. 5 singles at conference.
“I thought Marissa played well this weekend and also moved the best she had in a long time,” Madsen said.
In addition to Levy, singles winners for Deerfield were: senior Katie Frankel (No. 2), sophomore Gerri Soren (No. 4), junior Lauren Spungen (No. 10), senior Erin Church (No. 11) and sophomore Maddie Wilson (No. 12).
Winning doubles for the Warriors were: Frankel and senior Ally Kolpas (No. 1), Levy and senior Zoe Sinton (No. 2) and Spungen and senior Laura Holzman (No. 5).
