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PCC badminton player and foreign student Anne Moesching is getting ready to move back to Switzerland after helping the team to a second place finish in the state.Moesching moved from Sion, Switzerland with her boyfriend last year, while he attended Cal Tech to get his doctorate and she attended PCC after attending one year at Lausanne University in Switzerland.

Starting at PCC in the fall, Moesching looked into joining one of the athletic teams.

She first thought about trying out for the softball team.

“The fact that I didn’t have any experience, I couldn’t play (softball) here,” said Moesching.

She then thought about joining the women’s soccer team before settling on badminton, even though she had no competitive experience in the sport.

She joined this semester and helped the team reach second place at the State Championships.

“It’s more fun (competitive badminton),” said Moesching. “You move a lot more.”

Moesching also came to PCC to learn English since her first language is French, one of three languages along with German and Italian spoken in Switzerland.

She also has a background in other sports such as tennis, women’s ice hockey and gymnastics.

Moesching would like to eventually get her master’s in English and Physical Education so she can be a teacher in both fields.

“School is a big part of my life,” said Moesching.

She also likes to play music in her free time and plays both the flute and piano.

As the semester comes to end, it will also be Moesching’s last semester at PCC; she will not be back for her sophomore year.

She plans to return to Lausanne University to finish her bachelor’s degree, a decision made easier because her boyfriend has already returned to Switzerland.

“I will be happy to be back with my family and my boyfriend, but it was very relaxing here,” said Moesching.

Moesching was undefeated in badminton until the Southern California playoffs, where she won one of her matches and lost the other match.

At the State Championships, after a long season of playing and wearing a wrist brace, Moesching lost.

“You think if only I would have won one of my games we could have won,” said Moesching. “It was hard at the moment and there were a lot of emotions, but second place is not that bad.”

She will miss PCC, her coach and teammates, but has plans for a possible visit next summer.

“I will miss the team, they were very nice to me,” said Moesching. “I was only here one year and to be in such a big event, it was very important to me.

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