USA Badminton 2025 Host and Bid Opportunities

USA Badminton has the following selection events available for bid/expressions of interest in 2025.

• 2025 Selection Event for Pan Am Junior Championships/World Junior Championships
• Collegiate National/2025 WUG Selection Event
• 2025 Junior Pan Am Games Selection Event
• Adult Nationals/Pan Am M&F Cup Selection Event & Para Nationals

2025 Selection Event for Pan Am Junior Championships/World Junior Championships

USA Badminton is requesting a $20,000 bid fee from any CVB, entity or compliant member club interested in hosting the Junior Selection Event from April 18, 2025 to April 21, 2025. The bid fee is in addition to the regular revenue split.

We do not plan to cap the event and it will be open to all U.S. citizens by age group. In order to ensure only experienced players participate, each entrant will be required to play in a minimum of two USAB or BWF tournaments (junior or adult) in the 2024-2025 season (beginning after the 2024 Junior National Championships) prior to the Selection Event. The event will be held over four days. The Selection Event will be the main draw with feed-in consolation or pool play based on the number of entries. The Selection Event will determine the U.S. players for the 2025 Pan Am Junior Championships and the 2025 World Junior Championships.

*The inclusion of the U11 at the Pan Am Junior Championships is not yet known.

Please email Trenton.Szeto@usabadminton.org with your expressions of interest.

If you have questions regarding the 2025 PAJC and 2025 WJC, please contact Esther.Lin@usabadminton.org.

Deadline for expression of interest – Noon Eastern Time, Friday, November 22, 2024.

Update: Extended Deadline – Noon Eastern Time, Wednesday, December 4, 2024.

(Updated Note: This updated deadline was not intended to be included in this section for the Junior Selection Event. USA Badminton apologizes for any confusion and inconvenience caused by this posting error.)

Collegiate National/2025 WUG Selection Event

USA Badminton is reaching out to our compliant member clubs for expressions of interest to host the Collegiate National Championships over the course of three days in late February – early March 2025.

The Collegiate National Championships will be the selection event for the World University Games to be held July 16 – July 27, 2025 in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany. Our anticipated team size, which may be reduced by the organizer, is expected to be six men & six women. 

Athletes must be a United States Citizen, be born between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2007, and have taken at least one 3-credit course towards a degree or diploma at an accredited college or university within the last year before the GAMES. Incoming freshmen and transfers are usually eligible. The standard is that the athlete must be “progressing towards a degree”.  Athletes who have obtained a degree in the last year before the GAMES are eligible as well.

Please email Trenton.Szeto@usabadminton.org with your expressions of interest.

If you have questions regarding the 2025 World University Games, please contact Esther.Lin@usabadminton.org.

Deadline for expression of interest – Noon Eastern Time, Friday, November 22, 2024.

Update: Extended Deadline – Noon Eastern Time, Wednesday, December 4, 2024.

2025 Junior Pan Am Games Selection Event

USA Badminton is reaching out to our compliant member clubs for expressions of interest to host the Selection Event for the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games to be held August 9 – 23, 2025 in Asuncion, Paraguay over the course of two or three days in late February – early March 2025.

Our anticipated team size, which may be reduced by the organizer, is expected to be two men & two women. Each NOC member of the BWF and the BPAC will have the right to participate with a minimum of one (1) athlete in the Badminton Competition of the Asuncion 2025 Junior Pan American Games. All of the participating athletes should be Under 23 (athletes born in 2003); athletes may be up to 22 years old by December 31, 2025.

Please email Trenton.Szeto@usabadminton.org with your expressions of interest.

If you have questions regarding the 2025 Junior Pan Am Games, please contact Esther.Lin@usabadminton.org.

Deadline for expression of interest – Noon Eastern Time, Friday, November 22, 2024.

Update: Extended Deadline – Noon Eastern Time, Wednesday, December 4, 2024.

Adult Nationals/Pan Am M&F Cup Selection Event & Para Nationals

USA Badminton is reaching out to our compliant member clubs for expressions of interest to host the Adult National Championships and Para National Championships to be held together in November or December 2025 (specific date yet to be determined).

The Adult National Championships will be open to U.S. citizens and may be used as the Selection Event for the Pan Am M&F Cup continental championships, the qualification event for the Thomas Cup & Uber Cup to be held in 2026.

The Para National Championships will be open to U.S. citizens and will include the events on the Paralympic schedule for 2024; Men’s and Women’s Singles events in WH1, WH2, SL3, SL4 SU5 and SH6 and Men’s and Women’s Doubles in WH1-2 and Mixed Doubles in SL3-SU5 and SH6. Additionally we will hold SH6 MD and WD, which are not on the Paralympic schedule. The Host Club must have a minimum of one wood court for the wheelchair competition.

Please email Trenton.Szeto@usabadminton.org with your expressions of interest.

Deadline for expression of interest – Noon Eastern Time, Friday, December 27, 2024.