Meet the Team

Shiva Kumar Muthyal — Principle Coach

Mr. Shiva Kumar is a former International Badminton player and a Badminton World Federation (BWF) certified coach with more than a decade of coaching experience, delivering high performance coaching in a challenging and competitive environment.

During his career as a player, he represented India at various international tournaments such as Yonex Mauritius Internationals, Bangladesh International Challenge, Tata Open International Challenge, Malaysia Grand Prix Gold, Yonex Sunrise India open, Adidas Boston Open, Nepal International. He was ranked in Men’s doubles and Mixed doubles categories at BWF world level ranking.

During his stint as an Indian Junior Badminton team coach several players who were training under him were selected into the Indian National team to participate in World Junior Championships. Prior to this position as a India Junior Badminton team coach he held multiple head coach positions e.g. Karnataka state team coach, Belgaum, head coach, and various badminton academies including his own.

Ajit Joshi — Principle Coach

Ajit started playing badminton in Pune, India where he got his professional training from professional coaches. During his school and college days Ajit played badminton and participated in various tournaments within Maharashtra state.

Coaching experiences:
USAB Certified coach
Tualatin Hills Park and recreation District, Beaverton – From 2008 to 2015 – Head coach – Created coaching program and consistently coaching approximately 75+ kids/adults during any given season at different skill levels.
Trained 5+ coaches as assistant coaches.

Badminton achievements:
US Masters International Badminton Tournament 2017

Champion – Men’s singles 40+, 35+ Men’s doubles, 40+ Men’s doubles
Runners up – 35+ Mixed doubles

From 2004 through 2018 State Games Of Oregon

Men’s singles – Champion 2009, 2012 Runners up – 2007, 2008, 2013, 2016
Men’s doubles – Champion 2006, 2015, 2016, 2017 Runners up – 2008, 2009, 2013, 2018
Mixed doubles – Champion 2004

From 1997 through 2004 – Ajit played various tournaments within Oregon and Washington area and participated in singles, doubles and mixed doubles events where he was a champion or runners up in some of the tournaments.

Vikas Vij — Coach

Vikas started playing badminton in Baroda, India where he was professionally trained by a Gujarat State Coach. He has been playing the game for more than 25years. He has participated in various national tournaments in India and won many state tournaments in Gujarat and also in Oregon. He has also worked with his coach in developing the next generation badminton players in Baroda.

Achievements:
Oregon State Games

Men’s singles – Champion 2014, 2015, 2016. Runners up 2017
Men’s doubles – Champion 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

US Masters International Badminton Tournament 2017

Champion – 35+ Men’s Doubles

University of Oregon, Eugene Games

Men’s singles – Runners up 2014, 2015
Men’s doubles – Champion 2015, Runners up 2014

Gujarat State (1990 – 2002)

Vikas has won various state singles and doubles tournaments in Under 12, 14, 16, 19 years category
Vikas has also represented Gujarat state at various national tournaments in Under 12, 14, 16, 19 years category

Tony Huang — Coach

OBA coaches for 2 years

Sandeep Nair — Coach

OBA coaches for 2 years

WE ARE RECRUITING

We welcome experienced coaches to join us. Please send your brief bio and contact information to info@orbadminton.com.
You can also call 503-430-7861 to speak about your interest.