UC Irvine Olympians

Eva Lee

  • Country USA
  • Sport / Event Badminton
  • Olympic Years 2008, 2016

Biography

OLYMPIC EXPERIENCE
Competed in women’s singles as well as in women’s double with fellow UCI graduate with May Mangkalakiri in 2008 and then participated as a singles player in 2016 in Rio

At the 2008 Games, she lost to Anna Rice of Canada in the first round of women’s singles (15-21, 21-19, 19-21)

In doubles, Lee and Mangkalakiri lost to Jiang Yanmei and Li Yuiia from Singapore in the first round 19-21, 19-21

In 2016, she teamed with Paula Lynn Obanana going 0-3 in women’s doubles

AT UCI
Graduated from UCI with a degree in biological sciences in 2013

Was not a student-athlete at UCI
 
EXTRAS
Lee and Mangkalakiri were high school teammates