Our very own Divine Aseo was presented with one of the Premier's Athletic Awards on October 4, 2023. Dr. Andrew Furey, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, presented awards to 126 young athletes from across the province at the 19th annual Premier’s Athletic Awards. The awards program recognizes athletic excellence and provides financial support to help offset the costs of training and competition.
Divine has represented the province at the 2022 Atlantic Table Tennis Championships, 2023 Atlantic Table Tennis Championships (three individual Gold Medals and helping her Team NL teammates capture Gold in the Junior Female Team event) and the 2023 Canada Winter Games. The NLTTA applauds her on her dedication and wishes her the best of luck in her table tennis journey. Keep up the excellent work.
First Tournament In The Books
We are now a couple of months into the 2023-24 season and the first NLTTA tournament of the season, the MUN Open, was held on Saturday September 30, 2023. The tournament had over 45 athletes competing in a variety of events that produced an action packed day of Table Tennis.
There was a fine display of competitive spirit by all athletes and congratulations to all the medalist for a job well done. For a complete list of winners visit the MUN Open results page.
The next tournament up is the Western Open scheduled for November 4, 2023 in Corner Brook. The registration deadline is October 28, 2023, for more details and to register visit the MUN Open Registration portal.
A couple of weeks later the action moves back to the east coast with the Paradise Open set for November 25th at the Rotary Paradise Youth and Community Centre in Paradise. For the complete list of currently scheduled tournaments check out the Tournaments page.
NL Winter Games
The 2024 NL Winter Games will be taking place this upcoming February/March in Gander with Table Tennis as one of the participating sports during the first half of the games from Feb. 25 - 27, 2024.
A reminder to all regional coaches that each competing region must hold a regional qualifier for team selection and the qualifying tournament must be held by January 27, 2024. Four Regional coaches have set the dates/location for their qualifier. See the table below for more info.
Region | Location-Time | Contact Info |
|---|---|---|
St. John's-North November 20, 2023 | Rotary Youth and Community Centre Paradise, NL 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Jeremy Lehr jnlehr@mun.ca |
Mt. Pearl-South November 27, 2023 | Rotary Youth and Community Centre Paradise, NL 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Jin Chen jinchenphd@gmail.com |
Eastern December 2, 2023 | Glovertown Academy Glovertown, NL 10:00 am - 4:00 pm | Sheldon Briffett sheldonbriffett@yahoo.com |
Central December 2, 2023 | Smallwood Academy Gambo, NL 9:00 am - 4:00 pm | Keith Peckford Robinandkeith01@icloud.com |
See our NL Games Page for more info | |
Contact the Technical Chairperson, Kenny Curlew at vp-admin@nltta.com, for information on Regional Coordination and competitions. Also there are a couple of regions(Central, Western and the Host region) without a coach and we know of players that are interesting in representing their respective region. If you are interested in coaching one of those regions or know someone who might be please reach out to us.
Keep an eye out for more info which can be found by visiting the NLTTA website or NLTTA Facebook group
Full Steam Ahead
As you can see things are in full swing and no doubt looks to be a busy season especially for the juniors with the NL Winter Games and a full slate of NLTTA sanctioned tournaments.
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