NEW SEASON STARTS

Lydia John was awarded the TTW Young Player of the Year at the TTW Annual Awards 2013.

Marc Castro was the winner of the TTW West Regional Player of the Year. Congratulations to both players who have worked very hard this season.

Gemau Cymru Report. Due to holidays I was absent for the tournament Larry Hursey and Dennis Bromage took the lead with the team, I would like to thank them for they’re support on what was a successful event for the young players.  Overall in the team event we finished third so it was a Bronze Medal for us. Lots of feedback from Dennis and Larry on what we need to work on to improve.

Lydia John won all her matches and was successful in winning gold in the singles event, Marc Castro winning joint Bronze in the boy’s singles.

Congratulations to Lydia who has had a busy summer with Training and Competition Camps throughout.  Her hard work and determination is proving successful and we are hoping for more successes from in the new season.

West Regional Squad is due to start on the 9^th September with the groups being split over a 3 hour time slot. 

Lawrence John has also had a busy summer training in Hamburg with 2 other welsh players, Lawrence enjoyed the experience and is currently away in Slovenia at the moment, so no break this summer.

The region has maintained its focus with training on a weekly basis in Swansea, we have also had a camp in Mumbles where Aled Howell brought players from over the bridge to train with us.  This was an enjoyable experience with our warm ups along the promenade. 

Matthew Francis was also training hard, along with Lydia John they represented Wales in the European Mini Championship, which was held in France this is the first time Wales has entered teams and I think it was a valuable experience for us to see the bigger picture.    

Penlan & Penyrheol clubs have proved successful through the summer months with lots of players attending to keep the focus, Mumbles has also continued to run its Summer Girls Club with the addition of Brothers of the girls who also fancied they’re chances against their sisters. 

The regions School programme is also set to re start with the assistance of a LAPA Grant being approved by Swansea City Council, meetings to discuss this are being held over the next few weeks.

The Premier League Football and Swansea City Football Club have also chosen Table Tennis to run a programme for Secondary School Children in Swansea to feed our local clubs with new talent, details of this are currently in the processing stages.

The Swansea Top 12 Summer Event organized by Dennis Bromage has been successful with our top youngsters competing again our top Premier League Players current standings are 1st Josh Jenkins, 2nd Dave Lloyd, 3rd Dennis Bromage, 4^th Marc Castro, 5th Paul Karabadak, 6^th Scott Cundy, 7^th Jason Peckham 8^th Lawrence John 9^th James Lobb, 10^th Steffan Griffiths.  Great to see our young talent competing and gaining experience from these games.

On the 21^st July Lara Whitton and Grace Clement competed in the Eupal Dragon Tournament in Ael y Bryn Club, Lara won the under 9’s event and came in a close 2^nd place in the under 11’s.  Grace not far behind with her 5^th place in both events. Well done to both players.