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2011 College Table
Tennis National Championships April 15-17, 2011
in Rochester, MN
APRIL 9, 2011
We Love Our Volunteers! NCTTA
Salutes the People Who Really Make the Championships Possible
We
really should give our gold medals to our wonderful army of volunteers at the
2011 Championships. Folks at NCTTA headquarters don't do that, but we really
appreciate their faithful work come tournament time in mid-April. Whether
it is the grunt work of unloading trucks, serving with transportation needs
or keeping score, volunteers make a big difference in the success of our
tournaments year after year. At
the moment, more than 70 volunteers are signed up to help us from Wednesday
through Sunday, but there's always room for more to give our splendid workers
a break! We have 48 signed up as umpires and scorekeepers, 24 working
registration tables, and 16 assigned to venue set-up, among other things. As
you can tell, there will be people assigned several tasks along the way at
our fantastic games in Rochester, Minnesota this week. "It
looks like I will be keeping busy during the tournament,'' says Minnesota
Division Director Mark Stanchfield, who will be
wearing several hats at the NCTTA's Big Dance. He also serves as a coach of
the team from Rochester CTC and as an NCTTA Championships Committee member.
At the tournament the hard-working Minnesota professor will also be serving
as a scorekeeper. NCTTA
veterans like Ralph Presley, a longtime leader in the Georgia Division will
be back to umpire at their 5th straight Championships. Kiswanto
Thayib, president of the Rochester Table Tennis
Club, will also be on the go in his hometown. Kiswanto
will take on umpiring and scorekeeping assignments. Members
of Rochester's Table Tennis Club will help unload trucks Wednesday, set up
Thursday and take down Sunday. We also have volunteers doing everything from
taking pictures to writing stories to doing whatever at our site on the
campus of Rochester Community and Technical College. Just can’t thank the
volunteers enough for their efforts. A
few volunteer perks do come with the territory. We give them nice T-shirts,
meals throughout the competition, a ticket to Saturday evening's awards
dinner and the chance to rub elbows with some of the best people on the
planet. "We
had a great crew of volunteers at the championship games in 2008 and 2009 in
Minnesota,'' says NCTTA President Willy Leparulo. "We believe some of the same folks will be back
along with some newcomers to make the 2011 tournament another success
story.'' So
if you see a volunteer helping out in Minnesota this week, tell them thank
you! Hugs are optional!
Players and spectators
alike will enjoy a jam-packed weekend of table tennis at the 2011 College
Table Tennis Championships. The event starts Friday April 15th and continues
to Sunday April 17th at the Regional Sports Center in Rochester, Minneosta. Organized by the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association
(NCTTA), the Championships are sponsored by Killerspin, a
Chicago-based table tennis firm and Newgy Industries (Gallatin, TN). The event is also
supported by the Association of College Unions
International (ACUI) and by USA Table Tennis,
the national governing body for table tennis in the US. 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 About USA
Table Tennis Headquartered
in Colorado Springs, USATT is the national organizing body for table tennis in
the United States, serving 9,000+ members and nearly 300 clubs. USATT
sanctions 200+ events a year including the US Open and US Nationals. USATT is
affiliated with the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), as well as
the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). www.usatt.org
& tabletennis.teamusa.org
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