Club History:         A few years ago, Peter Teuten at University of Maryland put my name on his website         as a contact for badminton locations in Northern Virginia. As a result I have received         many phone calls from people who wants to play badminton in this area. This is one         of the reasons www.evergreensports.net was born.         EvergreenSports.net adopts the name Evergreen which is the name of the badminton         I run in Northern Viriginia. The club is founded as part of the Community Outreach         Program of New World Bilingual Institute (NWBI), an educational institute founded         and headed by Principal Terry Wang base at George Mason University. (As a side note,         NWBI offers a great variety of community services and educational programs for         youth and adult, including Sunday Chinese school, athletic clubs, and many cultural         activities.)         The club started in mid-1990s with a group of badminton lovers, and I was one of them.         Everyone was so thankful to have a place to play badminton. There was no particular         person to run the club. One time, I decided to join Terry's Seven Sea's Toastmaster Club.         That association was probably the factor I was asked later to run the badminton club.                 The demand for badminton kept growing. Membership reached a threshold which could         criple the club. Rejecting people to join the club is the most difficult thing. I always         remember how I felt when there were no place available when I really wanted to play.         It ate my heart. The decision was made, and I was determined.                Badminton was not a recognized sport in Fairfax County then. It took a years of         persistent effort to overcome that obstacle... Today, badminton is available at Holmes         M.S. Tuesdays and Fridays, season after season. Membership fee is the lowest you         can ever imagine. There is plenty of joy around...         May the club be green forever.         Clement Chan