By Willy Leparulo; Guest writer
NCTTA Press Committee

One of the defining characteristics of Women’s college table tennis is the level of competition it offers. In NCTTA, women hold a vital spot in a successful Collegiate Championship experience.

NCTTA Championships has Coed (Men and Women) playing together in addition to women-only events like Doubles, Singles and Women’s Teams. Top women players generally can see that they will be playing 10-12 matches a day!

Texas Wesleyan University always brings a deep team and their women’s college table tennis leaders Zhen Deng and Jiaqi Lin are absolutely a one-two punch to be reckoned with! Deng and Lin are ranked #1 and #2 in Women’s Singles with former US Women’s National Team member, Crystal Wang of Emory, as #3.

The Women’s Doubles competition, which could be looked as a precursor to the women’s team competition (since doubles is a tiebreaker in the team competition), sees Deng and Lin as the top Women’s Doubles seed with an overall (4949) rating. The second place duo of UCLA’s Angie Tan and Joanna Sung are at (4675). The road to championships at NCTTA may start and end with the doubles. All that being said, Texas Wesleyan Rams are favored here.

The Texas Wesleyan Table Tennis program, owner of the most women’s team championships in all of college table tennis history, are hungrier than ever as last year’s title went to UCLA. Texas Wesleyan Rams have claimed 10 Championship Women’s Team titles and are currently ranked #3 in all of women’s college table tennis with UCLA and NYU at #1, 2 respectively. Look to see fireworks here!

(Pictured here are Zhen Deng and Jiaqi Lin of Texas Wesleyan Photo by Yukong Zhang)

About 2024 NCTTA College Table Tennis Championships
The championships are hosted by the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association and the Visit Eau Claire CVB. The event will feature: Men’s and Women’s Singles and Doubles, and Men’s/Coed Teams, Women’s Teams.
PongSpace, Joola, the US Coast Guard, Visit Eau Claire and Bluestone Designs sponsor the event.
Watch the event on live stream starting Friday, April 12th on http://www.nctta.org/champs/2024/video.html

About NCTTA
The National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA) is a non-profit organization established exclusively to promote 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 elite intercollegiate competitions throughout North America. www.nctta.org