South East Schools Final

The South East Schools Table Tennis Finals took place today at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club.

Ten teams qualified from 4 regions within the South East of Wales.  Teams from Cardiff, Caerphilly, Rhondda and the Vale battled it out across two age catagories.

In the year 7 and 8 catagory it was the two Cardiff teams who qualified through the finals beating representative teams from Caerphilly and Rhondda on route. this set up a repeat final from the Sport.Cardiff schools finals of Cathays High School (Cardiff Champions) going up against the Cardiff Runners up of Rumney High School. It was Rumney High School who got of to a winning start going 2-0 up, Cathays then made it 2-1 before Rumney stepped up their games and took a 5-2 victory to gain revenge on their Cardiff Rivals.

The year 9 and 10 catagory was played in a round robin group with 5 schools all playing eacchother, After some great competitive matches it all come down to the last and final group game which was between Ferndale Comprehensive School and Ysgol Glantaf of Cardiff. Ysgol Glantaf took an early 1-0 lead and never looked back, they went on winning the match 5-1 and claimed the South East title.

Well done to all the participants who represented their schools at the South East finals and also to those who didn't quite make it into the final cut. Lets keep up the hard work within our school programmes and hopefully next year your school can make the finals and possibly be crowned the South East Champions!!!

 

Welsh Primary Schools Championships

The Welsh Primary Schools Championships is now only one month away

Get your enrties in now to be part of the biggest primary school event in Wales

 

Event Date: Wednesday 20th February 2013 @ Sport Wales National Centre

 

Closing date for the Entries is Wednesday 13th February 2013

 

Cardiff Secondary Schools Finals

The Cardiff secondary schools competition took place this week at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club.

Eight Schools qualified through to the finals and battled it out to see who was Champions.

In the year 7&8 it was Cathays who reclaimed their title they won 2 years ago by beating Rumney High School in the Final match. Last years Runners up Bishop of Llandaff finished in 3rd place beating Corpus Christi in the 3rd/4th play off.

Final Positions

1.Cathays High School
2. Rumney High School
3. Bishop Of Llandaff
4. Corpus Christi
5. Cardiff High School
6. Ysgol Glantaf
7. Whitchurch High School
8. West Cardiff Schools

Well done to all the participants who took part in the finals, this proved yet again to be a successful event.

Cardiff Schools Finals

Wednesday 15th January will see the top 8 Cardiff Schools battle it out at the Cardiff City Table Tennis Club to see who will become this year Cardiff Schools Champions.

The top two teams will also qualify for the South East Schools Finals at the end of the month!1

Good Luck to all the Schools involved!!

Cardiff Regional Squad Camp

After a long Christmas break the Cardiff Regional Squads where back in the training hall working hard and starting the new year of with a bang!!

Sunday 6th January saw the first training camp of the year, with former Welsh No 4 and Commonwealth Games representative Patrick Thomas on hard to practise with the young and rising stars of Welsh table tennis.

Now with some new additions to the coaching staff and new players added to the squad, things are building strongly for table tennis in the Capitol!!