The team won the Neill Cup at the weekend, beating powerful defending champion Canterbury and a rising Southland team to secure the title.
Otago won the cup in 2020 for the first time since 2006, but since then, Canterbury had again dominated the competition.
Player Lucy Thomsen was "really proud" of the 10-person team’s effort in front of the home crowd at the Otago Badminton Hall.
The competition consisted of 12 games: two men’s singles, two women’s singles, two men’s doubles, two women’s doubles and four mixed doubles.
Otago comfortably beat Southland, which is going through a rebuilding phase, 11-1 on Friday night, the start the home team was after.
It got on top of Canterbury early on Saturday, screaming out to a 6-2 lead before the mixed doubles, giving Otago confidence to move forward and secure a 7-5 victory over all.
"To come away 7-5 was good," Thomsen said.
"It does seem like a close win, but I don’t think anyone in the team was doubting themselves on the day which was good."
Thomsen, who is also the Otago senior badminton manager, and Luke White won the first mixed doubles, 25-23, 21-15.
"We won the set 25-23 which was pretty cool. That one we had to hold our nerve a bit to get there."
New Otago representative Zara Van Koppen joined Adithi Alexander for the second female doubles and had a tight contest against Canterbury’s Jenna and Kira Selen to win in three sets.
Justin Ho, also representing Otago for the first time, and Aaryan Alexander were strong in the second men’s doubles team, winning both sets, she said.
"They had a really good weekend in general."
The results, at the first team competition of the year, would lay a good foundation for the rest of the season, she said.
"We have our main national division competition at the end of May — it’s a nice sort of stepping stone towards competing at that and making sure we’re ready."
Badminton Otago will host its Otago Open next month, starting on April 14.
