Where: SPIN Philadelphia
When: August 27th
MUST REGISTER HERE (free): https://pongspace.com/product/2022-nctta-party-at-spin-philadelphia/
Who: Open to NCTTA alumni, family, friends, current college tt athletes
Why: Supporting NCTTA alumni and our National Fundraiser where any donation given is DOUBLED!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K
Where: SPIN San Francisco
When: August 20th
MUST REGISTER HERE (free): https://pongspace.com/product/2022-nctta-party-at-spin-san-francisco/
Who: Open to NCTTA alumni, family, friends, current college tt athletes
Why: Supporting NCTTA alumni and our National Fundraiser where any donation given is DOUBLED!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K
Where: SPIN Boston
When: July 9th--
MUST REGISTER HERE (free): https://pongspace.com/product/2022-nctta-party-at-spin-boston/
Who: Open to NCTTA alumni, family, friends, current college tt athletes
Why: Supporting NCTTA alumni and our National Fundraiser where any donation given is DOUBLED!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K
To NCTTA member school presidents/representatives:
Voting is now open for the positions of Treasurer, Vice President External Affairs, and Athlete Representative.
To view the candidates and their statements, and to place your votes, please go to https://forms.gle/sbkKFDXUTjyLrTY6A
The deadline for voting is 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, June 12.
1 vote per member school will be counted.
For any questions, please email elections@nctta.org
Wondering how you’re supposed to get experience when you need experience to get an internship? Do you want to gain real-world skills while helping your favorite sport? Or are you perhaps even frustrated with aspects of NCTTA and want to change things?
Apply to one of our summer intern roles! We are offering internships in software engineering, graphics, and writing.
Applications due June 6th. In your application, please focus on the work you’d like to do rather than on your table tennis passion or accomplishments. We’re looking for self-motivated people who are focused and take initiative.
SWE Intern
https://forms.gle/3EsCYASJhmc2mdRY9
Graphics Intern
https://forms.gle/LojjBetuXBr9rYRq6
Newsletter Intern
https://forms.gle/7gc2adA959S9guVs5
For more information about the internship roles or program in general, contact our internship coordinator Jenna Kiyasu at jenna.kiyasu@nctta.org.
As a past intern, the experience Jenna gained helped land her a full time software engineering role at DoorDash in San Francisco. To learn more about Jenna’s NCTTA internship experience, check out her medium post here: https://jkiyasu.medium.com/three-things-i-learned-from-my-internship-at-...
Last year NCTTA was given the opportunity to raise $100k and have it matched by a generous anonymous NCTTA Alumni. On our first attempt at fundraising we raised almost half, and now fortunately get a 2nd chance at $100k!
NCTTA will be continuing its efforts at $100k and every donation is matched dollar for dollar! Help NCTTA raise the rest of the $100k ($59k specifically)!
This fundraiser will go into the Fall 2022 competition semester as we gear up for a momentous occasion…NCTTA turns 30 years old!
November 15, 1992 was the 1st ever NCTTA match (at that point known as LNITT). Harvard University vs Boston University, thank you to Nelson Chin, co-founder of our organization, for noting this!
This year as last time, the school team with the highest donation dollars will win free NCTTA Membership for the 2022-2023 season. UC Berkeley won last year!
Click here to help NCTTA!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K
The time has come for elections for certain NCTTA Board of Directors positions. NCTTA is a “working” board, meaning board members double as volunteer directors and staff at the same time. We put in lots of hours b/c we love it, so one of the prerequisites is passion of course!
For those of you interested in further involvement with NCTTA, here is your opportunity to play a crucial role in the direction of the organization, as well as that of college table tennis in the US and beyond.
These are the positions that are open for election. They are 4-YEAR positions.
Treasurer
Vice President-External
Athlete (Alumni) Representative
Please remember to read the NCTTA bylaws for qualifications to run and the description for each position:
http://nctta.org/doc/NCTTA_Bylaws_2021.pdf (page 11-15)
Candidates must submit a Statement of Intent to elections@nctta.org to be approved to run for the NCTTA Board of Directors, Deadline is May 31st.
On or around June 6th, the statements will be posted, and approved candidates will be announced.
At that time, voting will begin and take place until June 12th. Voting will be done by presidents (or representatives) of each NCTTA member school; each school will have 1 vote for each position.
Training for newly-elected Board members will occur immediately after election is complete and terms will officially begin on July 1.
Please direct any questions to elections@nctta.org.
To those who decide to run, NCTTA wishes you the best of luck.
(Pictured here is the current NCTTA Board of Directors at the recent 2022 NCTTA Championships).
Every year we look at who the "best of the best" are for the end of a league season. NCTTA's 2021-2022 season has come to an end and now we vote to see the #1's are for every area!
(Pictured above is a montage of 2020's Superlative winners)
Nominate someone today for the NCTTA Superlatives!
Deadline is May 14th.
TO NOMINATE SOMEONE
-Email your nomination and WHY to info@nctta.org by the deadline.
2022 Categories are here
Male Athlete of the Year -
Female Athlete of the Year -
Rookie of the Year -
Coach of the Year -
Rookie Team -
Division Director of the Year -
Regional Director of the Year -
*Rookie Teams are school teams that have never participated in the NCTTA (Subject to NCTTA historical records)
*Rookie of the year are players new to College Table Tennis (they can be any year Freshman/sophomore/junior/senior/graduate student) also subject to NCTTA historical records
*Division and Regional Directors must be current to 2021-22 competition year
Winners are awarded a gift card!
NCTTA’s National Table Tennis Scholarship Program has been developed to give deserving table tennis athletes the opportunity for financial support while pursuing a college education. With the original generous support from NEWGY Industries and the current fabulous support from The HSING FAMILY FOUNDATION, NCTTA is able to award a limited number of scholarships to male and female student-athletes, based on the following criteria:
-Multiple scholarships available to US Citizens under 25
-Minimum scholarship $800; Elite athlete scholarship $1200
-Deadline is 5/15/22
http://nctta.org/scholarship/index.html
Recipients are expected to practice with and compete for their school’s table tennis team in NCTTA competition as a varsity or junior varsity player.
By Brayden Glad
NCTTA Media Committee
The first three rounds of Men’s singles produced a single upset in each round, and the other matches all held to form. This illustrates just how wide the margin is between the upper tier of US college table tennis and the players a few levels below. The notable upsets were #36 Nokhin Tong of Washington over #28 Benjamin Hartwiger of Texas A&M 3-1 in the round of 64, #21 LeTuanKhai Dinh of Maryland overcoming #13 Tianming Xie of Harvard in 5 sets in the round of 32, and finally #10 Sahil Puri of Washington defeating #8 Eduardo Tomoike of Texas in 5 sets in the round of 16.
The Women’s bracket likewise produced a single upset in the rounds of 32 and 16, and none in the quarterfinals. In the round of 32, #16 Yanyu Xie of Georgia Tech defeated #10 Andi Mai of NYU in four sets, and in the round of 16 #12 Lavanya Maruthapandian of California defeated #8 Maria Castillo of MIT 3-1.
-Fireworks and clashing styles fill singles semis and finals-
Upsets were few and far between in the Men’s and Women’s singles matchups, with all 4 top seeds making the semifinals in both events. In the Women’s bracket, #1 Angela Guan of California battles #3 Jiaqi Lin of Texas Wesleyan, while #2 Zhen Deng of Texas Wesleyan takes on Xin Li of Ohlone College.
The latter match proceeded at a rapid pace, with Zhen Deng overpowering Xin Li with short, rapid attacks to win four close, hard-fought sets at (10, 9, 7, 8). In contrast, the former match had its pace dictated by the methodical chopping of Angela Guan, and narrowly avoided the expedite rule in the first close set as Guan defeated Jiaqi Lin in 5 sets (9, 3, -5, 3, 6).
The finals promised to be a battle of contrasting styles, but Guan seemed more able to keep the pace to her liking as extended rallies of chops was the order of the day. The match went to the expedite system in set 3, and Guan was able to see out a (10, 7, 9, -4, 6) victory in relative comfort as the expedite system failed to provide Zhen Deng sufficient attacking chances.
In the Men’s bracket, #1 Sharon Alguetti of Indiana plays #4 Nikhil Kumar of California and #2 Kai Zhang of U. Southern California plays #3 Gal Alguetti of Indiana. Both matches featured fantastic attacking table tennis, with long, hard-fought rallies. In the end, the higher seeds were just slightly more accurate with those attacks, with Sharon Alguetti defeating Nikhil Kumar (4, -4, 7, 3, 2) and Kai Zhang outlasting Gal Alguetti (5, -10, 4, 7, -11, 9).
The finals delivered on their promise as a high-energy affair with multiple long counter-attacking rallies throughout the match. The match was a close, back-and-forth affair throughout, with Sharon Alguetti ultimately prevailing in an epic (-7, 9, 7, -8, 6, 8) win.
Photo of Angela Guan. Photo Credit to Dean Ginther
About 2022 NCTTA College Table Tennis Championships
The championships are hosted by the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association and the Round Rock CVB. Men’s and Women’s Singles and Doubles, and Men’s/Coed Teams, Women’s Teams. The event is sponsored by Double Happiness, Double Fish and Joola.
Watch the event on live stream starting Friday April 8th on champs.nctta.org
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 elite intercollegiate competition throughout North America. www.nctta.org
