If one is associated with an active table tennis group or club in your
respective school, please contact our Recruiting Director or any of our
Division Directors for assistance.
To be a member of the NCTTA, one must:
- Be officially affiliated with your university in some way, for example through your campus recreation department, student activities program, athletics department, or student union.
- Complete the NCTTA online membership application and pay the appropriate membership fee.
- Be placed in a geographical division. If you're unsure which division you fit into, contact the NCTTA Recruiting Chair, who can help with placing your school in an existing division or, if necessary, create a new division.
If you are a college student or a college administrator looking to get your
school involved in NCTTA but a formal club has not yet been established, simply
follow these steps below:
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One must start a Table Tennis club at school. This is not particularly
difficult to accomplish. Your first step is to find enough students interested
in starting the club.
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Contact your school's Campus Recreation or Student Activities Office and inform
them about your interest. This is to decipher whether a club has existed in the
past. If your school had a former club, then your next step is to activate it
again. Try to contact past members or faculty advisors of the club to help with
the process. If no contact is available, proceed to step 3.
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If no previous club existed, you should go to either the Campus Recreation
office or Student Activities office and request to start a new club. Usually
you will have to fill out paperwork and obtain a faculty advisor to oversee
club activities. Every school has different guidelines as to how a club is
started, so take that into consideration. If you experience any problems, please
feel free to contact any of the NCTTA's staff and we will be glad to assist you.
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Once the interest in starting or reactivating a club has been let known to the
proper authorities, your next step will be to get as many people involved as
possible. The is because one of the most important aspect of starting a TT club
at school is to let others know of its existence! At first, the club will
probably consist of just you and your friends. Your goal is to expand its
membership. The question is "How?"
Spread the word about your club around campus and the community through word of
mouth by talking to people, posting flyers around campus, calling the school
newspaper to advertise the club, emailing to public email bulletins, setting up
information table at student recreation center or student union, and even
setting up table tennis exhibitions at the Student Union, lounge or Recreation
center or anywhere you can attract attention. The important element is to
promote your club to everyone.
For more information about College Table Tennis Clubs and or NCTTA please
contact us at info@nctta.org
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