The Academy team of Harry Bell, Max Brooks and Josh Dalton started the last of four fixtures just five points behind Glossop who were top of the division. In the third fixture the boys drew with Glossop and they drew again in this last fixture. Three wins plus one other draw just wasn’t enough to overtake Glossop at the top […]

On Sunday 8th February Henry Hathaway aged 11, Sam Jeffries aged 11, Ben Strapps aged 10 and Thomas Hurst aged 10 took part in the Table Tennis England – National Cadet League Fixture at the North West Regional Table Tennis Centre at Halton, Widnes. This was the third fixture of four and they played five matches during the day so […]

Just letting everyone know that Mandy had a foot operation last week so will be out of action for a good number of weeks. So, in case you were wondering hasn’t ‘deserted’ us!! Mandy is keeping in close contact with all of the Committee members as well as some of you who are representing The Academy in the National Cadet […]

Ben Strapps who beat Thomas Hurst in the final for the first session. It is nice to think that the competitive table tennis they are playing in the Table Tennis England National Cadet League is helping them to improve. In the consolation play off Ewan Spence beat fairly new comer to the Academy, Adam Scarth. Well done to all players. In […]

Adam played in the event though feeling less than 100% because of a really bad cough and cold. Harry Bell had entered but he had to withdraw because of a really bad head cold. Adam had entered both the Cadet and Junior event so was hoping to get quite a bit of TT during the day. The opposition was very […]

Just two weeks left before we break for Christmas and New Year. Our last Friday is the 19th December when we will be having our usual ‘season ending’ Tournament. Everyone is welcome; spectators included. We will do our best to provide adequate seating for you all. At the end of each session we will be handing out some ‘goodies’ so […]

Here are the Individual and Team results for the Cadet League on the 9th November. Sam did very well winning 6 out of his 8 matches. Henry, Luke and Matt also did very well considering it was their first competitive table tennis outing. Some of the teams belong to clubs that give their players more opportunities of playing TT than […]

Sunday 9th November 2014 is a date to remember for Matthew Edmondson, aged 9; Sam Jeffries aged 11; Henry Hathaway aged 11 and Luke O’Donoughue aged 12. They all played in the Table Tennis England Cadet League at The Halton Stadium in Widnes. The venue has 18 tables full of some of the best Cadets (under 14 years of age) […]

Harry Bell and Adam Kenzitt traveled to Blackpool for a Table Tennis England 2 star tournament. There was a large entry and they were put into groups of three and four with the winners and runners up progressing to the draw proper. Harry and Adam both won two matches and lost one where a very high standard of table tennis […]

As it was half term and not everyone are around for coaching we had a mini tournament. In the first session there was a ‘round robin’ of two groups and the winner went straight into the final. Thomas Hurst and Cory Wild were the winners in each group so they played each other in the final. Cory aged just 9 […]