Para Team Coaches

Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Email: ttminn@aol.com

Coaching Profile:

• 2020 Paralympic Games Coach and helped class three athlete to win Paralympic Gold and class 9 athlete to reach Paralympic quarterfinals
• 2019 Para Pan Am Games Coach
• 2018 World Championships Coach

Para Titles:

• 2008: U.S. Paralympic Team member, Table Tennis - Paralympic Games, Beijing, China
• 2007: Two gold medals, Class 7 Singles, Class 7 Team - Para Pan American Games, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• 2005: Gold medal, Class 10 Team; Silver medal, Open Standing; Bronze medal, Class 10 Singles - Para Pan American Table Tennis Championships, Mar Del Plata, Argentina
• 2003: U.S. Olympic Committee's Table Tennis Developmental Coach of the Year
• 1996: Silver medal, Class 8 Singles; Bronze medal, Class 6-8 Team - Paralympic Games, Atlanta, Ga.
• 1992: Gold medal, Class 8 Singles; Bronze medal, Class 10 Team - Paralympic Games, Barcelona, Spain
• 1990: Gold medal, Class 8 Singles; Bronze medal, Open Standing - World Championships, Assen, The Netherlands
• Five-time Minnesota State Champion (1992, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003)

Birthplace: Romania
Current Residence:  San Antonio, Texas
Email: vlad.farcas@usatt.org

Coaching Profiile:

• 2020 Paralympics Assistant Coach
• ITTF-PTT Level 1 Certified
  Coach
• Assistant coach and sparing
  partner for Romania Paralympians
• Head Coach and President at
  San Antonio Table Tennis Club - Sep 2018 - Present

Hometown: Mishawaka, IN
Current Hometown: Plano, TX
Email: markman321@hotmail.com

Coaching Profile:

• 2004 US Olympic Team Member
• 2007 Pan American Games Mens Team Bronze Medal
• 8x US National Team Member
• 3x US Nationals Mens Singles Finalist
• 4x US Nationals Mens Doubles Champion
• 2x Collegiate Nationals Mens Singles Champion

Coaching Profile:

Weida "Wesley" Guan has been playing table tennis professionally for 20 years and has been actively coaching for 10 years.

He was an Assistant Coach in the Japanese Women's Super League team. Wesley graduated from UC Davis.

He has experience in athlete development. A few of athletes became National Team members. In 2024, Wesley started helping Para developmental athletes in Para US Open as well as in training camps.

Birthplace:  Kingston, Jamaica
Hometown:  Kingston
Current Residence:  Birmingham, Alabama
Email: keith9001@yahoo.com

Coaching Career:

• 1996 Olympic Coach for team Jamaica
• 2004-2017 Collegiate Team Coach (12 National Team Championship Titles)
• 2007-2015 US National Cadet Team Coach
• Since 2011 US Para Team Coach