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2011 College Table Tennis National Championships April 15-17, 2011
in Rochester, MN
**NEWS RELEASE** APRIL 7, 2011
College Table Tennis Championships
Welcome ACUI Qualifiers
All
roads lead to Rochester, Minnesota or so it seems in mid-April. Some of the
best collegiate table tennis players in the USA and
Canada will be taking different paths to get to the 2011 College Table Tennis
Championships. Some
players qualified for the Big Dance in Minnesota through ACUI
table tennis tournaments in 15 regions. What is ACUI?
Founded in 1914 at Case Western Reserve in Ohio, ACUI
is the Association of College Unions International. It is the professional
umbrella group for folks who plan and oversee recreational sports and other activities
on college campuses. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, ACUI now
includes 558 schools, some as big as Ohio State and
Purdue, and the organizations has attracted new members like Connecticut
College, Missouri Southern State and Hamline University. Under the ACUI system, the 2010 men’s and women’s singles champions
get automatic invitations to return to the Nationals to defend their titles
in 2011. The 2010 Women’s Singles Champion was Sara Fu Hazinski
of Region 12 and Texas Wesleyan University, while the 2010 Men’s Singles
Champion was Yanjun Gao
of Region 3 and LaGuardia College in New York. “We
thought it was a neat way to give the respective male and female winner a
chance to defend their title,” says Michelle J. Smith, director of meetings
with ACUI when asked to discuss the organization’s qualification
process for the national championship games. There’s no
guarantee that the 2010 winners will repeat in 2011. The competition will
again be strong – if not stronger this year – in Rochester from April 15-17. “Mrs. Hazinksi and Mr. Gao will have
their work cut out for them!,’’ Smith says. ACUI conducted table
tennis tournaments at its 15 regions earlier this year, providing another
avenue for individual top players to get to the Nationals, rather than
qualifying as part of a team through NCTTA team league competition. For more
information about ACUI, whether it concerns billiards
tournaments, bowling or other campus sports like table tennis, contact the
ACUI main office in Bloomington, Indiana About ACUI Founded
in 1914, ACUI is a nonprofit educational organization that brings together
college union and student activities professionals from hundreds of schools
in seven countries. Its members work on urban and rural campuses, in two-year
and four-year institutions, and at large and small schools. They are students
and administrators whose mission is to build campus community. ACUI enriches
them all through education, advocacy, and the delivery of services. About NCTTA The
National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA) is a non-profit
organization established exclusively for promoting the sport of table tennis
at the college level. As the national governing body for college table tennis
in the United States and Canada, NCTTA organizes intercollegiate competition
throughout North America. www.nctta.org
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