ANNA RICE BADMINTON

Anna Rice is North America's top female badminton player.  Originally from North Vancouver, Canada, Anna has been playing professional badminton for more than 10 years. After 9 seasons of playing in the Danish Pro league, Anna has recently re-settled back to Canada. 

At number 29 in the world, Anna is the highest ranked North American singles player and is the reigning Canadian National Champion, as well as the 2009 U.S. Open Champion.  She has represented Canada at the International level for over 12 years, including such major events as the 2004 Athens Olympics, the 2006 Commonwealth Games, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as well as several World Championships. 

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Anna became the first female singles player from a Pan American country to achieve a top-16 finish.  While continuing with her professional badminton career, Anna strives to use her success on the court to help promote the sport of badminton in North America.

As well as being an athlete, Anna is also active in other areas of her sporting community.  As an Athlete Ambassador for the non-profit organization called Right To Play, Anna traveled to Uganda last Spring to work with this humanitarian organization.  Watch the video below to see pictures from those exciting 10 weeks.  For more information about Right To Play go to the Right To Play section of this website or follow this link to the Right To Play  website.