Two years ago Wednesday (October 26, 2020), a beloved legend in the US table tennis passed away. In honor of his immense contribution to the table tennis community and world peace, NCTTA and AYTTO teamed together to honor him with the Annual George Braithwaite Community Service Award for those high school seniors demonstrating a consistent and positive contribution to the AYTTO community.

It is now time to submit your nomination for the candidates. Please email your nomination to president@nctta.org, or admin@aytto.org. The selection committee will announce two winners this year on April 15, 2023, the birthday of the legend who many people know as “The Chief”.

They came, they saw, and they partied in honor of NCTTA and in honor of College Table Tennis past, present and future!

NCTTA held its last ALUMNI Pong Party of the season at SPIN NYC. Almost 100 people came to hang out, eat, and reminisce about their NCTTA glory days. Combine that with current players from the Northeast and you have one hell of a pong party!

NCTTA has been reaching out to Alumni since the pandemic to get people playing again. Although it may not be the same passion and intensity of College Table Tennis past, it is the same community, the same camaraderie present.

NCTTA has one more month left in our National Fundraiser 1 to 1 match. At the SPIN NYC gathering, 1000 dollars was raised!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K

Thank you to everyone that contributed to the success including SPIN NYC, PongSpace, and NCTTA staff and as well as you the Alumni and current players.

If you liked these SPIN PONG Parties, we are looking for an ALUMNI Director, please email info@nctta.org for more info! More to come in the future!

Fall semester has started or just about to start for many Colleges and Universities and with that so is NCTTA.

NCTTA Registration will open up for this next season on September 7th on nctta.app

Interested in lowering your NCTTA membership fee?

-NCTTA Membership is 300 dollars a year now and if you are a returning school help to recruit a new school that did NOT play last year, then we will refund you 50 dollars and refund the new school 50 dollars as well!
-New school must contact NCTTA at info@nctta.org and claim your school as the “referral”.

Where: SPIN Philadelphia

When: August 27th
MUST REGISTER HERE (free): https://pongspace.com/product/2022-nctta-party-at-spin-philadelphia/

Who: Open to NCTTA alumni, family, friends, current college tt athletes

Why: Supporting NCTTA alumni and our National Fundraiser where any donation given is DOUBLED!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K

Where: SPIN San Francisco

When: August 20th
MUST REGISTER HERE (free): https://pongspace.com/product/2022-nctta-party-at-spin-san-francisco/

Who: Open to NCTTA alumni, family, friends, current college tt athletes

Why: Supporting NCTTA alumni and our National Fundraiser where any donation given is DOUBLED!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K

Where: SPIN Boston

When: July 9th--
MUST REGISTER HERE (free): https://pongspace.com/product/2022-nctta-party-at-spin-boston/

Who: Open to NCTTA alumni, family, friends, current college tt athletes

Why: Supporting NCTTA alumni and our National Fundraiser where any donation given is DOUBLED!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K

To NCTTA member school presidents/representatives:

Voting is now open for the positions of Treasurer, Vice President External Affairs, and Athlete Representative.

To view the candidates and their statements, and to place your votes, please go to https://forms.gle/sbkKFDXUTjyLrTY6A

The deadline for voting is 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Sunday, June 12.
1 vote per member school will be counted.

For any questions, please email elections@nctta.org

Wondering how you’re supposed to get experience when you need experience to get an internship? Do you want to gain real-world skills while helping your favorite sport? Or are you perhaps even frustrated with aspects of NCTTA and want to change things?

Apply to one of our summer intern roles! We are offering internships in software engineering, graphics, and writing.

Applications due June 6th. In your application, please focus on the work you’d like to do rather than on your table tennis passion or accomplishments. We’re looking for self-motivated people who are focused and take initiative.

SWE Intern
https://forms.gle/3EsCYASJhmc2mdRY9
Graphics Intern
https://forms.gle/LojjBetuXBr9rYRq6
Newsletter Intern
https://forms.gle/7gc2adA959S9guVs5

For more information about the internship roles or program in general, contact our internship coordinator Jenna Kiyasu at jenna.kiyasu@nctta.org.

As a past intern, the experience Jenna gained helped land her a full time software engineering role at DoorDash in San Francisco. To learn more about Jenna’s NCTTA internship experience, check out her medium post here: https://jkiyasu.medium.com/three-things-i-learned-from-my-internship-at-...

Last year NCTTA was given the opportunity to raise $100k and have it matched by a generous anonymous NCTTA Alumni. On our first attempt at fundraising we raised almost half, and now fortunately get a 2nd chance at $100k!

NCTTA will be continuing its efforts at $100k and every donation is matched dollar for dollar! Help NCTTA raise the rest of the $100k ($59k specifically)!

This fundraiser will go into the Fall 2022 competition semester as we gear up for a momentous occasion…NCTTA turns 30 years old!

November 15, 1992 was the 1st ever NCTTA match (at that point known as LNITT). Harvard University vs Boston University, thank you to Nelson Chin, co-founder of our organization, for noting this!

This year as last time, the school team with the highest donation dollars will win free NCTTA Membership for the 2022-2023 season. UC Berkeley won last year!

Click here to help NCTTA!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/NCTTA200K

The time has come for elections for certain NCTTA Board of Directors positions. NCTTA is a “working” board, meaning board members double as volunteer directors and staff at the same time. We put in lots of hours b/c we love it, so one of the prerequisites is passion of course!

For those of you interested in further involvement with NCTTA, here is your opportunity to play a crucial role in the direction of the organization, as well as that of college table tennis in the US and beyond.

These are the positions that are open for election. They are 4-YEAR positions.
Treasurer
Vice President-External
Athlete (Alumni) Representative

Please remember to read the NCTTA bylaws for qualifications to run and the description for each position:
http://nctta.org/doc/NCTTA_Bylaws_2021.pdf (page 11-15)

Candidates must submit a Statement of Intent to elections@nctta.org to be approved to run for the NCTTA Board of Directors, Deadline is May 31st.

On or around June 6th, the statements will be posted, and approved candidates will be announced.

At that time, voting will begin and take place until June 12th. Voting will be done by presidents (or representatives) of each NCTTA member school; each school will have 1 vote for each position.

Training for newly-elected Board members will occur immediately after election is complete and terms will officially begin on July 1.

Please direct any questions to elections@nctta.org.

To those who decide to run, NCTTA wishes you the best of luck.

(Pictured here is the current NCTTA Board of Directors at the recent 2022 NCTTA Championships).