By Willy Leparulo
NCTTA Media Committee

Texas Wesleyan University and UC Berkeley are no strangers to the Championship Team Finals and this year’s finale is no exception in the Women’s Team competition. UC Berkeley seeded #2 led by Angela Guan and #1 seeds Texas Wesleyan led by Jiaqi Lin and Zhen Deng are odds end favorites.

Texas Wesleyan has won the women’s team event a record 9 times! Coach Jasna Rather and Coach Doru Gheorge put together an excellent women’s squad to be able to make it to this point. Jiaqi Lin and Zhen Deng are #2 and 3 in Women’s singles and lead the Coed Texas Wesleyan Team as well.

This year’s finale fittingly went to doubles after the stars for Texas Wesleyan and for California fought to a stalemate. Angela Guan (2492)’s win for California over Zhen Deng (2485) on table one was countered by Jiaqi Lin (2475)’s win over Lavanya Maruthapandian (2123) and tables 3 and 4 were likewise split.

The Texas Wesleyan University women’s team took the championship title for their 10th time.

Photo Credit to Yukong Zhang

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