May 29, 2012
Tobias Ng (far right) with Olympic Team colleagues Michelle Li, Grace Gao, and Alexandra Bruce. COC photo by Sue Wong.
Vancouver, BC – Former Langara student-athlete Tobias Ng will be playing
badminton for Canada at the London Olympics this summer, the Canadian Olympic
Team has announced. He will be representing the nation at the Summer Games as
one half of the mixed doubles pair, alongside Calgary’s Grace Gao.
Ng, originally from Vancouver, attended Langara to study
Human Kinetics from 2005 to 2007 before transferring to UBC. He was a star of the Falcons Badminton squad,
being named to the 1st BCCAA All-Star team in 2006, and winning
Langara Male Athlete of the Year in 2007.
Ng is one of four Canadians who will be
competing in badminton at the London Games in two months time.
“This is a very big honour, to
represent Canada at the Olympic Games,” said Ng, in a report issued by the
Canadian Olympic Team. “We’re going to take everything we’ve worked on and
practiced and bring it all together in London.”
Ng and Gao took home mixed doubles gold at the Canadian
Nationals in February and won the XVII Peru International 2012 in April, held
by the World Badminton Federation in Lima. The pair also took home the gold
from the 2011 Pan American Games, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, after coming
back from a deficit to win a challenging third game – a moment Ng lists on
the Badminton Canada website as one of the biggest in his career.
"We are very fortunate to have had some tremendously talented
student-athletes compete for Langara over the years, and Toby is a terrific
example," said Jake McCallum, Langara’s Director of Athletics and
Intramurals. "We are extremely proud to have been a part of Toby's
progression towards qualifying for the Olympic Games in 2012."
Joining Ng and Gao on Canada’s Olympic Badminton team are
Alexandra Bruce from Toronto and Michelle Li from Markham, Ontario. 
Left: Olympian Tobias Ng as a Langara Falcon in 2007.
Right: Receiving his Athlete of the Year Award in 2007.
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Annie Mullins
Communications Officer
Langara College
604-323-5058
amullins@langara.bc.ca