Welcome Everyone,
This is the newly created blog site for the Western Regional of National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA). My name is Kevin Li. I am the Western Regional Director. The purpose of this blog is to keep not only athletes but also community members, parents, and the table tennis community of current news about the Western Region and NCTTA. On this site, I will be posting tournament results, draws, pictures, monthly newsletters, etc. If any athletes or fans have videos/pictures, please feel free to email them to me at kevin.li@nctta.org and I will post them up!

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So we have a pretty busy month here with School just starting up and NCTTA Registration open and the weather changing (for some)!

Smells, feels, sounds like the start of a new College Table Tennis season!

http://www.nctta.org/newsletters/sep2011/

So in our newsletter did y'all see the new changes in NCTTA? Take a look at this page it shows alot of moving around for alot of schools and divisions: http://www.nctta.org/node/4

We have REGIONS now...this is a whole new concept for NCTTA in that we have kept the same format since 1998 (when I first came on board) and maybe even earlier then that. What was the format? DIVISION---CHAMPIONSHIPS and it worked out ok....but we are growing so much that we have add another tier and this year we have added the REGIONs and their REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS and SINGLES (more on this later). Anyways I am so PUMPED about this and I hope you all will be too as we have put alot of work into this in the off season.

Remember to Register for NCTTA this season as the deadline is OCTOBER 1st (you can pay later but you pay a late fee of 50 bucks)...so why wait?

Until next time,

Willy (nctta prez)

Remember we are still taking Pre Season Rankings! Email us back by September 6th to participate! Email info@nctta.org
 

1. Which players that competed for your team in the 2010-2011 season will be returning to compete in the upcoming 2011-2012 season?
2. Do you know of any new players that will be joining your team and participating in the upcoming season? If so, what are their estimated ratings?
3. What is your projected team roster for the upcoming season?
4. Do you currently have or do you plan on recruiting a coach for the upcoming season?
5. How many non-NCTTA tournaments does your team plan to attend during the upcoming year?
6. In terms of practice space and time for the 2011-2012 season, do you anticipate having more, less or the same amount as in years past?

NCTTA hasn't even organized the 2012 Championships in Plano yet we are looking for 2013 Championship location already!

Myself (Willy Leparulo), David Del Vecchio and Joe Wells are headed to Chicago this Thursday, Friday, Saturday to take part in a conference geared towards people that do events (like NCTTA) and people that want to host events (like the cities we went to in the past: Rochester, Waukesha, etc.) http://connectyourmeetings.com/marketplace/

We haven't had a University host since 2007 when Ohio State University stepped up to do it, so don't think that we only want cities or sport commissions we would love actually if both Sport commissions and Universities worked together!

The big question is how do you win a bid to host the NCTTA College Table Tennis Championships? Lots of things go into it: (Facility, transportation costs, hotel costs, location to an airport, TT club volunteers, etc.) For more information you can always contact us and we can give you the 4-1-1 on how that works!:)

Anyways wish us luck as Cities and Sport Commissions from all over the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico will be in attendance....

Imagine an NCTTA Champs in Puerto Rico......"pong for thought"

Willy signing off...until next time!