History

Ferndale Table Tennis club was first established as a TTk Greenhouse academy in 2007. The academy was overseen by Welsh International player Stephen Gertsen he was at the academy for 3 and a half years and had great success during his time here. Then ex-Scottish Junior International player Scott Johnston who was assistant coach at old TTk school Tonypandy and had previously helped Stephen with his coaching duties at Ferndale took over. Scott was in the position for a year. Scott moved on but the club has again managed to get a new coach who is going to continue to allow the club to grow. Gwyn Carvill from Bridgend TT club has now taken over at the school and will hopefully use his knowledge of the game and links within welsh table tennis to help the club go from strength to strength.

Friday, 26 August 2011

Summer Training Report

Ferndale has had a very successful summer with several players being asked to attend national team sessions on a regular basis. The players that represented the school were Ethan Lewis, Chris Griffiths, Liam Winder, Seven Fawkes and Charlotte Slye. Coaches at these sessions have reported back saying the players worked very hard and put 100% effort in to the sessions. An "Internal" Tournament was held last week with 13 players playing and Ethan Lewis came out on top. Well Done Ethan, keep up the god work.
The sessions at the school during the day and the Community club have been well attended with many different individuals attending who would not usually attend the after-school sessions. Hopefully this steady increase of non-ferndale based players will continue to improve and will boost these club sessions for the local based players.
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