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Lan Voung
Courtesy of Tim Boggan It’s Aug., 1980, 32 years ago, and the Women’s Singles winner at the Montclair, CA Open is Lan Vuong. Formerly from Vietnam, now from the Los Angeles Chinatown Club, she’s 4 and ½ feet tall, weighs 75 pounds, and is all of 11 years old. For her table tennis progress in…
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Errol Resek
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Errol Resek came to the U.S. toward the middle of the 1960’s from the Dominican Republic where others in his family—father Alberto, brother Albertico, and particularly sister Priscilla—were also accomplished players. In contrast to Errol, Priscilla had a very short career, but at the 1967 U.S. Open she reached the final…
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George “Gus” Kennedy
Courtesy of Tim Boggan George “Gus” Kennedy first comes into the pages of the USTTA magazine in a photo from the Nov., 1970 Tamasu Butterfly Table Tennis Report. What, you may well ask, was a picture of Gus and those other Minnesotans—Chris Faye, Alan Goldstein, Charlie Disney, and Doug Maday—doing in that Japanese magazine? Well,…
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Jennifer Johnson
Courtesy of Tim Boggan “Play Ping-Pong and see the world”—that’s a mantra many of us have taken to heart, and few more so than 2012 U.S. Hall of Fame inductee Jennifer Brown Johnson. The Ping-Pong, er, Table Tennis, we’ll get to in a moment, but Jennifer’s peripatetic sports life began not in the U.S. representing…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States