By Michael Reff
Press Committee Chair
Fresh from last night with a wonderful shindig,
Where great food was had, and athletes celebrated,
Now to last day of Champs, volunteers tired but elated.
By Luke Scotchie
NCTTA Press Committee Member
Rockford, IL — Several student-athletes signed up for the PeakaPong Singles Tournament, the final event of the NCTTA Championships 2026. This co-ed tournament had a similar rulebook to most other Singles events...
By Emily Zhao
NCTTA Press Committee Member
Everyone in American table tennis knows the Naresh brothers, Nandan and Sid. Hailing from the Greater Chicago Area, the Nareshes are fixtures on...
By Michael Reff
Press Committee Chair
Right away I could tell that Piquet Thengtrirat was happy to be back in an NCTTA Championships. Initially observing him interact with NCTTA President Willy Leparulo from afar...
By Michael Reff
Press Committee Chair
Day 2 of Champs if you’re in the know,
Coed and Women’s teams put on the greatest shows!
With the Women’s end of things, there was close competition.
By Emily Zhao
NCTTA Press Committee Member
Thirteen hours after a late Women’s Doubles final, NYU’s Tiffany Ke and Yuyao Lu found themselves facing Harvard’s Kelly Yenn and Hannah Song again, this time in tiebreak for a Women’s Team semifinal.
By Luke Scotchie
NCTTA Press Committee Member
ROCKFORD, Ill. — Nikhil Kumar leaps from his seat behind Table 2 and claps his hands. He wears a navy UC Berkeley shirt that resembles the uniforms Sid Naresh and Jerry Fung wore in Friday's Men’s Doubles semifinal match.
By Willy Leparulo
NCTTA Press Committee Guest Writer
In an incredible day of competition at the National Collegiate Table Tennis Association championships, both the Men’s and Women’s Doubles...
By Michael Reff
Press Committee Chair
Loudnproud returns to Rockford,
Student athletes ratings upward,
Shouting cho’s and var’ous hype words.
Unique playing styles are the norm.
By Emily Zhao
NCTTA Press Committee Member
Sport and fashion have a long-established marriage. Athlete sponsorships, Olympic uniform reveals, athleisure, the deep encoding of “lifestyle” in pursuits like skiing, golf, and tennis.
By Luke Scotchie
NCTTA Press Committee Member
ROCKFORD, IL — Senura Silva and Jonatan McDonald shook each other's hands, both of whom did so without speaking a word to one another. Nothing needed to be said.
The crown jewel of the NCTTA College Table Tennis Championships is always the Coed Team event. NCTTA is unlike any other competition in the sport in that school teams are able to place men and women to compete together and against one another and on the same team.
UCLA won the 2025 Championships and is slated to be seeded #1 again this year, with the NYC Duo of NYU and Columbia nipping at their heels. Don’t count out the rest of the draw either; these are the best of the best Women’s College Table Tennis teams in North America.
There is literally nowhere to hide in the 2026 NCTTA Men’s Singles Competition. The tournament is full at 80 men and all but 1 are rated above the magical 2000 rating point. This event showcases the strongest Men’s Singles event in NCTTA history.
From one year to the next, one would generally expect the same top players, but not this year in the 2026 NCTTA College Table Tennis Championship’s Women’s Singles Event!
