Victoria Na

Nicknamed Vicky, Na was born on 23 March 1991 in Carlton, Victoria and as of 2012 lives in Glen Waverley, Victoria.[1][2] She is 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) tall and weighs 60 kilograms (130 lb).[1] She attended Mount View Primary School, and then went on to high school at Wesley College (Victoria). She then completed her final high school years at Haileybury Girls College.[1][2] As of 2012 she is working on a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Arts at RMIT, starting her degree in 2009.[1]

Na plays singles women's badminton for the Badminton Academy of Victoria, located in Kilsyth, Victoria.[1] She started competing in the sport in 2000 as a nine-year-old, and has always been coached by her father Kobeng Na.[1]

In 2005, Na won the Australian junior national championships in the under-15 singles class.[1] In 2007, she won the under-17 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships.[1] In 2009, she won the under-19 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships.[1] She finished first at the 2011 Ethiopia International 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the singles competition.[1] She finished second at the 2012 Thomas Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event.[1] She finished first at the 2012 Uber Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event.[1] At the 2012 Yonex Australian Open Grand Prix Gold in Sydney, Australia in the singles event, she finished seventeenth.[1] At the 2012 Air Tahiti Nui International Challenge in Punaauia, French Polynesia she finished ninth in the singles event.[1] At the 2012 Thomas & Uber Cup in Wuhan China, she finished 9th in the team competition.[1] In June 2012, she was scheduled to participate in a badminton international event in Auckland, New Zealand ahead of the Olympics where she will have a bye in the first round.[2][3][4] In round two, she will meet Ching Chieh Tai from Chinese Taipei.[2]