Kristen Tsai

[2] Lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, she trained at the ClearOne badminton club, and majored in criminology at the Simon Fraser University.

[1][3] She won her first Pan Am Championships title in 2012 in the women's singles event, and after that Tsai spent a full 4 years – between the 2013 and 2017 Canada Opens – away from international competition.

[3] She won gold medal at the Pan American Games in the women's doubles partnered with Rachel Honderich, and a silver medal in the mixed doubles with Nyl Yakura in 2019 Lima.

[5] In 2021, she captured her fourth Pan Am Championships title by winning the women's doubles event partnered with Rachel Honderich.

[7] In December 2022, Tsai suffered an ACL and MCL rupture while competing in the S/J league in Japan.