Community Club Change

The Ferndale Community Club will not be runnning on Tuesday the 4th of October as there has been confusion with hall bookings. This means that starting from the week beginning 10th of October the Community Club will change from a Tuesday evening to a Wednesday evening with the usual time of 5:00-7:00. To allow this change to happen the E3 session on a Wednesday will now be moved to Tuesday and no E3 session will run on a Wednesday.

Another Welsh Selection

Congratulations to Liam Winder for getting another Wales selection. He will be travelling to the Stockton-on-Tees 4* event at the end of October. This is a great even that allows players to play in a team event on the Saturday and singles on the Sunday. Good luck Liam

National Squad Selections

Several Ferndale players have been selected to train in Cardiff on a weekly basis in the national squads. Charlotte Slye will be down in Cardiff on a Wednesday for the Welsh Youth Squad. Ethan Lewis, Steven Fawkes and Liam Winder will all be training in Cardiff on a Tuesday with the B squad. Chris Griffiths has been selected to train with the Welsh A squad on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Well done to all five players on the selection.

Return to Training

E3 sessions have started again in Ferndale with them running four days a week. The only E3 after session that is not running is on a Tuesday as it is Community night 5-7. The sessions for E3 will run from 3:15-5:15 on Monday in the Barn, Wednesday in Lower Hall, Thursday in Barn and Friday in Lower Hall. Hope to see you all in the sessions.

UK School Games

Chris Griffiths and Kiran Parry both competed at the above mentioned competition. This was a fantastic opportunity for both players. Chris played very well in both the team event, winning 2 out of 6 matches against very strong opposition. In the singles Chris could not make it through his group to the main even but Chris will learn a lot from this competition and this will help him to progress further in this age group.
Kiran was competing in his first ever table tennis event, in the standing disability event. Kiran finished 6th in the singles event after coming third in his group and winning his first match in the 5th-8th section and then losing in the 5th and 6th play-off.
Well done both players and hopefully Ferndale's representation in this event will continue to be present for future events.

Welsh Selections

After the recent selection committee meeting Ferndale has another player representing Wales. Charlotte Slye has been selected to represent Wales in a development squad friendly international against the South West Region of England. Six boys are playing, including Community night regular Stefan Jeczalik, ad two girls so Charlotte has done well to be selected. Good luck to both Stefan and Charlotte. A report of the results in this match will follow.

Chris Griffiths will be representing Wales and Ferndale at one of the biggest events in the next week. Chris was selected to play at the UK School Games. This is an excellent competition with some of the best players from all over the UK attending. This will be a fantastic experience for Chris but also a very difficult one. Chris will be accompanied at the UK School Games by another player who has trained hard over he summer at Ferndale during the summer camps, Kiran Parry. Kiran will be representing Wales in the disabled section of the event. Kiran has attended the majority of the summer sessions and has been working very hard, he is hoping to attend the Community Nights once school starts again and he is hoping to continue to work with all the players at Ferndale. Good luck to both the boys.

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.