Carmen the queen of sports

CARMEN Lo Ka-man, the three-time Sports Girl of the Year in Tsuen Wan and Islands district, is probably the only secondary schoolgirl in the territory who knows how it feels to be loathed for being good at sport.

The talented badminton and table tennis player, who has more than 80 trophies and 100 medals under her belt, told Young Post that she once barely escaped being beating up by a bunch of furious opponents in the changing room after another success.

'I was a key player in an inter-district competition in which our district [Tuen Mun] won the championship. When I was changing in the room, some of the girls from other teams approached me and started swearing and scorning me for defeating their players.

'At one point they were so aggravated that I thought they were going to beat me up. Fortunately, I managed to flee before anything happened,' said the Form Seven student of Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School (TWGSS).

Her sports talents in badminton won her a place in the Hong Kong youth badminton team in which she delivered glory to the territory in a badminton tournament against Taipei.

In 1991 and 1993 she won the Tsuen Wan and Islands inter-school sports competition in badminton and table tennis. This gave her five consecutive years as badminton champion at inter-school level.