Fundraising for the nationals NCTTA Championship
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Hello! We are the Maryland Club Table Tennis from the University of Maryland, College Park. We are in need of funds to travel to Round-Rock, Austin, Texas during late March-early April 2022 to compete in the NCTTA National Championship. It is a huge goal for us to attend Nationals. In the past, we have won Regionals and are hopeful to advance further this year. Anything you can provide will be a huge help to send to our team! Much thanks and well wishes.
About us
Maryland Club Table Tennis is established to provide a friendly and stimulating environment for UMD students where table tennis enthusiasts of all skill levels can engage in both casual and competitive gameplay. Within the club, we have a competitive coed and women’s team that compete at collegiate tournaments.
With your support of any amount, we are hoping to use this fundraiser to raise money for our journey. Your donation would mainly be used towards funding: flights, ground transportation, room and board, and food. The funds will NOT be used towards other personal expenses.
If you are unable to donate at the moment, please help me share this campaign with your friends and family.
Our players and their ratings:
Men’s Team:
- Khoi Dinh (2367) is majoring in Chemical Engineering. He joined the UMB table tennis competitive team last Fall semester. He hopes he can qualify for the iSET College Table Tennis National Championships.
- Roy Ke (2371) is currently a sophomore at the University of Maryland. He is majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Naval Science, and is a midshipman in the NROTC program. He has been playing table tennis for over 12 years and trained in China for two years with the Shanghai Province team, Heilongjiang Province team, and the Beijing military team. Some of his most notable accomplishments include winning three gold medals at the 2016 Junior Olympics, winning the U2400 event at the 2019 US National Championships, and placing top 8 U22 at the 2019 US National Championships.
- Khai Dinh (2237) just transferred to UMD from Montgomery College and is currently a junior majoring in Biochemistry. He has been playing table tennis competitively for over 10 years now, competing at tournaments such as the 2019 Joola North American Teams Championship (Division B) and the 2019 Maryland Championship (Under-2400 Champion).
- William Huang (2139) is majoring in Computer Science and planning to minor in Mathematics. He joined the UMD table tennis team this school year as a freshman. He has won various championships such as a US Open doubles event, Cary Cup (Division B), and been a state finalist for juniors. Although he did not play much during the pandemic, his passion for the sport has not gone anywhere and he is excited to represent UMD in a bid to win new titles for his team.
- Michael Li (1947) is a senior majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Cello Performance and has been on the competitive team since his freshman year at UMD. During his sophomore year, Michael qualified for the 2019 iSET College Table Tennis National Championships Men's Singles. However, the event was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Spencer (2130) is a sophomore majoring in Computer Engineering and Statistics. He is the current President and was Treasurer last year. Now that competitions are opening up, he hopes we can get enough funding to travel to Regionals and Nationals.
Women’s Team:
- Stephanie Zhang (2085) is a freshman majoring in Agriculture Science and is the current treasurer of the club. She was the 2019 Maryland State Women's Singles Champion and is one of the recipients of the National College Table Tennis Association scholarship. She hopes that the team will be able to fundraise sufficient funds to support their journey to Nationals.
- Arya Thakur (1600) is a freshman majoring in Computer Science and joined the UMD Table Tennis club last fall. She is looking forward to playing for the team and hopes to get funds for the Regional and National tournaments.
- Jamie Lin Pinzon (904) is a senior majoring in journalism and German. She started playing table tennis at 5 years old and stopped playing at 12. This year she joined the competitive team. She looks forward to Nationals because she can be competing again after 10 years.
- Sally Zhao (812)
- Joy Chen (804)
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