ACUI Collegiate Table Tennis

Sept-Oct 2004

ACUI Report

By Willy Leparulo, ACUI Table Tennis Director

Good News to report on the ACUI College Table Tennis front. After some initial trepidation about the program’s future status; the powers that be at ACUI have decided that Table Tennis will return for the 2004-2005 Academic year. ACUI, with the help and support of USATT and Newgy Industries, promotes intercollegiate singles and doubles play throughout North America, and are looking forward to a great year. Dates for the 2005 ACUI Regional tournaments will be published in the upcoming months. The 2005 ACUI National Championship will be held in late spring, 2005 at Ft. Worth, Texas on the campus of Texas Wesleyan University along with the 2005 NCTTA Championships.

Also to report, the U.S. College National team has been selected to represent the United States in the World University Games in Gyor, Hungary, on Sept. 1-5. The team consists of Jiachen Wang of Texas Wesleyan University; John Mar of the University of Georgia; Vineet Agarwal of UCLA; William Liu of Colombia University; and Jackie Lee of Berkeley. Organization and planning for the tournament is ongoing as we attempt to procure a coach and clothing sponsorship in order to properly send our top collegiate athletes to the world games.

For further information on ACUI Table Tennis or the World University Games, please contact Willy Leparulo at recruitment@nctta.org.