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Table tennis club serves as a new program for students at North

With paddles in hand, a team of students journeyed down to the hallways of the commons to play a sport that does not usually get a lot of press at school.

“Well, Josiah Carney and Eric Peters came up to me with the idea of starting a table tennis club this year,” club sponsor Tim Besse said. “Actually he wanted to start it last year with Mr. Ehlman but wasn’t able to. Why he came up to me, I don’t know. I thought it was a good idea but I didn’t know how we would pull it off.

 

Before starting the table tennis club here at school, Peters and Carney would go to the St. Peters Table Tennis Club, which held their meetings at Francis Howell Central. So when news got out that there was a club starting at North, many of Carney and Peters’ friends jumped on the opportunity to join.

“Me, my brother and Josiah used to always play ping-pong at my house and when he said he was going to try and start a club I got really excited,” junior Matt Lane said.

The table tennis club had to overcome some obstacles on their way to becoming a club.

“We had a problem with getting the tables because they were so expensive,” Besse, a math teacher, said. “It took a full semester, but the St. Peters Table Tennis Club let us borrow six of their tables so we could get started.”

After getting the six tables, the next big obstacle was the storage of them.

“The storage of the tables was the hardest part because these were big tables and we had very little storage,” Activities Director Mike Janes said.
All meetings are held in the hallways outside of the commons every Tuesday from 2:30-4:30 p.m.

“It’s really a lot of fun. You can come out and play other people and get better,” junior Andrew Schwab said Either you’re a serious player or you’re not.”

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