Benny Lee (born December 5, 1965) is an American former

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player and coach. He competed in two events at the

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. Lee is a 9-time national champion in men's doubles. He won the national championships four times with Chris Jogis, four times with Thomas Reidy and won his ninth title with Andy Chong in 1998. In 2012, Lee founded the Synergy Badminton Academy in

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Career

Partnered with Chris Jogis, the two went on to win the men's doubles title at the 1989 Pan Am Badminton Championships in Mexico. In 1991, he partnered with Thomas Reidy and reached his second men's doubles final at the Pan American championships before losing to Mike Bitten and Bryan Blanshard of Canada.

Personal life

Lee is the father of

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, who is also a badminton player and a runner-up at the

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Achievements

Pan Am Championships

''Men's doubles''

References

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* 1965 births Living people American male badminton players Olympic badminton players for the United States Badminton players at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Yangon American expatriates in Myanmar 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-badminton-bio-stub