Registration Night

There will be a registration night in Scoil Eoin on Monday Sept 6^th from 6.30 to 7.30

Training in Scoil Eoin will recommence on

Monday 13^th from 6.30pm to 7.30pm

Tuesday 14th from 6.30pm to 7.30pm

Thursday from 6pm to 7.30pm and 7.30pm to 9.30pm

Senior Adult Table Tennis : These sessions will commence later in September. Time and venue TBA.

New member are most welcome.

Senior Qualification UCD /Senior Classification Finals, DCU, Dublin

28^th/29^th August

8 BTTC players travelled to UCD, for the first senior classification event of the season. All players including Ian Browne, James O Reilly, Alan Walsh and Emily O Reilly had thrilling first round matches with Kevin O Keeffe and Edel O Reilly topping their groups to proceed to the next stage.  The 2nd round also saw Alex Cooney and James Herley going on to play 3 more matches each with James Herley proceeding to the third round before being denied a place in the quarter final by Ulster’s Neil Irwin. Edel won all her matches to qualify for the Senior Classification finals in DCU the following day.

One of the highlights of the day was a match between Alan Walsh and James O Reilly which went to five sets and each set seeing the points going into the 20s

Sunday 29 August saw Edel and Declan play in the Senior Classification Finals at DCU.  Both players had a gruelling day of matches against the top Irish senior players. Edel was thrilled  to finish 3rd overall, up from her previous 33 ranking at senior level, with Declan finishing 10th in the men’s’ event moving up one place from last season

A big thank you to Ben Haughton for his guidance and coaching over the weekend.

Stiga Irish Junior Classification 18^th/19^th September

The ITTA has today opened entries for the STIGA Irish Junior Classification 10/11, the first major tournament of the Junior domestic season. This event represents a great chance for players to play in a round-robin format, get lots of matches and establish their early position on the Butterfly Junior Ranking Lists. With over 175 players participating last year, this year’s event could see over 200 players participate.

The tournament takes place on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September in DCU, Dublin. All players are guaranteed a lot of matches due to the round robin nature of the event.

Week 33

Welcome back to all after the summer break. The new season is here and it’s going to be a busy one.

For the most up to date fixture lists please click on this link

Munster League

The Munster leagues started in Killarney last Sunday again all teams performed very well winning three out of the four league Declan O Brien James Herley and Sam Logue played some excellent table tennis on their way to victory as did Colm Murphy Edel O Reilly and Alan Walsh who won their section by beating Local team Killarney Shane O Connor Eoin Murphy and James O Reilly had to be content with second as great rivals Kinneigh pipped them but Emily O Reilly Chloe O Haloran and Karl Walsh ensured a third victory by winning their group.

2010 Munster League Winners - Killarney round.

Team Ballincollig Tornadoes, James O'Reilly, Eoin Murphy , Shane O'Connor, at the Killarney Munster League, 2010.

Summer Camp
The club summer camp finishes up this week again a great 2 weeks of table tennis ensued thanks to Coach Ben Haughton. We should have some pictures from the camp next week.

New Members

New member are most welcome. Registrations will begin in early September. Details available next week.

Training

Training for the new season will begin in both Scoil Eoin and Youth REach in the coming weeks. More details to be found on the site.

Senior classification

The first major event of the new year is the Senior classification. A select number of players will be participating in the event which will be held in Dublin over the 28 /29 Aug. ( 28th UCD , 29th DCU ).

Week 24

Summer Training

Beginning Friday 25th June there will only be one training session on Monday and Friday nights from 7 – 9pm.

Summer Holidays & Training Camps

A full schedule of these dates will be handed out at the training session on Friday 25th.

Ballincollig Players At Senior Schools international In Limerick

The elite players from Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man travel to Limerick University, Ireland on 25th June to compete in the Senior Schools International Championship, with an action packed weekend of table tennis anticipated. This prestigious event will be, in terms of participants, the largest international table tennis tournament to be held in Ireland in 2010, with 170 of the top senior schools players (U14 to U18 yrs) and their coaches, as well as a large home and travelling contingent of supporters. The event will be held in UL in Limerick Ashley Givan and Edel O’Reilly will make up the U16 girls team and Under 16 Boys will be Ashley Robinson and Declan O’Brien also invited from the club are Sarah Cooney who will play in the U14 girls and Deirdre Murphy in the U18 Girls all at the club wish them all the best for the weekend.

ITTA Training Camp in ALSA Dublin

Club members attended an ITTA open training camp in ALSAA, Dublin On the week starting Tuesday the 15^th of June This camp was led by one of Europe’s top coaches, Leszek Kucharski of Poland. Mr.Kucharski recently led the ITTF training camp in Barcelona and is considered by the ITTF to be one of their top coaching experts. His own playing record includes gold medals in both the European and World Championships. All members that travelled found it very enjoyable and informative

Members of the Irish Elite training camp in ALSAA, Dublin

Street Collection

The Club will hold its annual flag day on Friday the 9^th and Saturday the 10^th all club members are asked to help out for this fundraiser.

Please contact Carol Browne.

Week 21

New Chairperson

With the 2010 AGM finally concluded the club has a new chairperson in Colette O’Reilly. We wish Colette every success in the role for the coming year.

Gold at the Irish Community Games Finals

Ballincolling U13 & U16 teams were in top class form last weekend as they cruised to victory against some very tricky opposition in the Irish Community games finals in Athlone AIT.

The U13 team of James O’Reilly, Alan and Karl Walsh, won comfortably while the U16 team of Shane O’Connor, Eoin and Colm Murphy also had a excellent victory.

2010 U13 & U16 Irish Community Games Finals Winners

The gold medals were the only Golds won by a Cork team on the day.

A special word of thanks to coach Ben Haughton for his work in mentoring the teams right through from the qualifiers to the finals.

Many thanks to parents Pat Walsh, Colette O’Reilly and Sean Murphy for helping out over the weekend.

Senior Training :

Senior training in Youth Reach is finished for the summer. It is hoped training will begin again in the September timeframe. New times will be published in due course.

New Members :

New members are most welcome. Please keep an eye out for news of the enrollment night in the coming months.

Week No.20

AGM – Part 2 to be held in Ballincollig GAA meeting rooms on May 26th at 8pm.

We would ask all parents to make every effort to attend please.

Community Games

Club members are now training hard in preparation for the All Ireland finals of The Community games which will be held in Athlone on the weekend of 29th and 30th of May.
Colaiste Choilm Awards Night
Table tennis was well represented at the annual Colaiste Choilm awards night as the 3 All Ireland Wining squads The U15 Boys and U18 Boys and Girls were recognized for their achievements.
In his citation Coach Ivan Shorten recounted an eventful year for the school in which they had great success in the Munster Leagues Had a squad travel to the World Schools finals in The Czech Republic and culminated in their marvellous achievement of brining home 3 titles from the all Ireland Schools which was hosted so magnificently by Colaiste Choilm this year.
Their were further individual awards for club members Edel O Reilly and Declan O Brien for their magnificent achievements in table tennis this year, Both being ranked number one in Munster. In the top four in Ireland and representing their country so well on international duty.
School principal Pat Kinsella paid glowing tribute to the club stating it was now one of the most successful in the country and that the school are reaping the rewards each year as the table tennis teams bring home the All Ireland titles.

Declan O Brien in Great form for Irish Junior team

An Irish Junior Boys selection were in Girona, Spain to participate in the Spanish Junior Open, which is part of the ITTF Global Junior Circuit. Sam Logue and Declan O’Brien had the opportunity to participate in a pre-event four day training camp with some of the best young players from around the World, many of whom have qualified for the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. Joined by Irish No.1 Paul McCreery for the tournament, the team were very well prepared for this high quality event.
The days play started with a thrilling match against Luxembourg. Declan O’Brien lost the first against Sven Hansen, before Paul McCreery beat Jim Cloos in straight sets to level the match 1-1. Logue and McCreery were defeated in a hard fought doubles match, before McCreery again levelled the match at 2-2 with a victory over Hansen. This set up a final decider and O’Brien stepped up to the plate with a fine 3-1 victory over Jim Cloos.
Following a brief break, Ireland were back in action with a match against Poland to decide who progressed to the Quarter Final of the Team event. Unfortunately, Poland had too much for the Irish, with O Brien Logue and McCreery battling valiantly but ultimately going down 3-0.

Dolly Glavin Cup
We had 3 competitors in the Dolly Glavin Senior competition which was held in Galway last weekend Kevin O Keeffe Andrew Reck and James Hurley took part. James and Kevin teamed up to finish 3rd overall and Andrew also put in some strong performances at the weekend.

Week No. 19

AGM – Part 2 to be held in Ballincollig GAA meeting rooms on May 26th at 8pm.

We would ask all parents to make every effort to attend please.

Week No.18

AGM…. Wed 12th May , 8pm in Ballincollig GAA Meeting Rooms. All parents requested to attend.

Colaiste Choilm win 3 Titles at All Ireland Schools Finals

In The All Ireland Schools Finals held last week in Colaiste Choilm the hosts were defending 3 of the 6 titles on offer At U15 boys and U18 boys and Girls In the U15 Boys, home side Colaiste Choilm looked favourites to retain the title. They were drawn against a very tough St Fintan’s Sutton team in the semi-final, containing Ireland’s top ranked Cadet Ryan Farrell and top 10 National Junior Conor Beades. Farrell, Beades and Daniel Murphy opened up a 3-0 lead for the Sutton side, before Irish Junior International Declan O’Brien led a spirited Cork fight back to level at 3-3. Once again, the importance of Doubles at this level was apparent – the defending champions held their nerve to record a 5-4 victory with two doubles wins. In the Final, Colaiste Choilm looked more in control against High School Ballinahinch. Shane O’Connor, Colm and Eoin Murphy and Declan O’Brien all recorded straight sets victories to establish an unassailable lead and the home school were once again National Under 15 Champions.

Under 18 Events
As the Colaiste Choilm Under 15 Boys defended their title, it fell to their school colleagues at Under 18 level to follow suit. In the Girl’s Final, a strong Colaiste Choilm, with wins by Edel O’Reilly, Emily O’Reilly, Dawn Gleeson and Aisling Healy were in command against Victoria College in Belfast, and ultimately recorded a 6-3 victory. In the Boys event, Blackrock College progressed to the Final with a 7-2 victory over Collegiate School, Monaghan. Colaiste Choilm also looked in top form as they defeated St.Aloysius of Athlone 9-0 to set up an eagerly anticipated Final. In the Final, Will Gallagher recorded a victory for Blackrock, but that was not enough to stem the tide of Cork victories, with Scott Shellard, Andrew Reck, Ben Ahern, Ian Brown and Alex Cooney all recording wins.

A remarkable feat once again by Colaiste Choilm as they take 3 National titles of the 6 on offer.
Squads

U15 Boys Shane O Connor Declan O Brien Colm and Eoin Murphy Stephen Bunyon Mark Prendegast and Alan Tobin

U18 Girls Edel and Emily O Reilly Aishling Healy Dawn Gleeson and Emile Polley

U18 Boys Alex Cooney Ian Brown Scott Shellard Darragh Buckley and Ben Aherne

Junior Interprovincials

Club members put in great performances at the Junior interprovencials held last weekend in Enniskillen. The U12 boys containing Alan Walsh Gearoid O Donoghue and James O Reilly swept all before them to bring home the gold, The U14 boys and Girls had to be content with second the boys losing out to a strong Leinster team and the girls to Ulster. It was bronze for Munster at U17 boys and girls and a young U12 girl’s team also secured a bronze

U12 Girls Chloe Brown
U12 Boys Alan Walsh Gearoid O Donoghue and James O Reilly
U14 Boys Shane O Connor Colm Murphy
U14 Girls Sarah Cooney Emily Burns Edel O Reilly
U17 Boys Andrew Reck Eoin Murphy Alex Cooney Ian Brown
U17 Girls Deirdre Murphy Niamh Buttimer Emily O Reilly

And Coach Ben Haughton

The Number of players travelling again shows the high standard within the club and we wish them all the best for the weekend

Week No.17

AGM

The clubs AGM will take place in the GAA meeting rooms on Wed 12th May, 8.00pm. We would as all parents to attend please.

Cork indoor Sports Awards – 2010 – Dan Foley

Congratulations to Dan Foley who won the table tennis award at the Indoor Sports awards night held in the Metropole last Friday Night. Dan now a Veteran player started playing Table Tennis at 14 years of age with Redmond’s Boys Club with whom he built up a reputation of a top-class player by winning several boy’s championships. He moved to Glanmire and A.O.H. clubs. He was undefeated at junior level from the age of 15 to 18.
He became Munster number 1 at senior level in the 60’s and played competitively at National level. His performance earning him his first Irish cap at senior level at just 19 years of age.
Dan is still playing competitively, now at Veteran level and has represented Ireland on several occasions most recently earlier this year in the Isle of Man.
In this month alone (March) he has competed in an over 60’s competition in Blackpool, England, a Munster Veterans event in Ballincollig and will gain another Munster cap when he plays in the Interprovincial series in Connacht.
Dan trains twice a week with Ballincollig Table Tennis Club where he is an inspiration to all the younger players.

Junior Interprovincials

Best of Luck to the Ballincollig players who are representing Munster at the Junior Interpros which are being held in Enniskillen this weekend. Those travelling are

U12 Girls Chloe Brown
U12 Boys Alan Walsh Gearoid O Donoghue and James O Reilly
U14 Boys Shane O Connor Colm Murphy
U14 Girls Sarah Cooney Emily Burns Edel O Reilly
U17 Boys Andrew Reck Eoin Murphy Alex Cooney Ian Brown
U17 Girls Deirdre Murphy Niamh Buttimer Emily O Reilly

And Coach Ben Haughton

The Number of players travelling again shows the high standard within the club and we wish them all the best for the weekend

Week No.16

AGM

The clubs AGM will be held in the GAA meeting rooms on Weds 12th of May. We would like all parents to attend.

Butterfly Irish National Junior
Championships
Saturday 17th April and Sunday 18th April 2010.
D.C.U. Dublin
This is an Irish Junior Ranking Tournament.

A Strong contingent of Ballincollig players travelled to DCU at the weekend and again we had very strong displays in each age group in what is the premier competition for cadet and junior players.

In the U10 boys Karl Walsh put in a great display and finished 3rd

In U12 we saw Alan Walsh come in 5th James O Reilly 6th and Paul Cooney 16th

The U12 Girls saw Sarah Cooney finish 5th and Chloe Brown finish 8th

In the U14 boys Alan Walsh came in 8th Shane O Connor 9th with James O Reilly and Colm Murphy joint 16th

In the Under 14 Girls, all eyes were on Ashley Givan and Edel O’Reilly as they progressed through the rounds as expected to meet once again in the Final. These international team-mates have had many battles over the season and it was no different in the Nationals. Givan raced into an early lead, before O’Reilly fought back to win a good 2nd set 14-12. The 3rd game was a very nervy affair, which Givan clinched 12-10, before taking the title in the 4th set. O’Reilly battled for every point, but it was not be her day and Givan adds a second National Singles title to her National Senior win earlier in the season. Emily Burns belied her 7th seeding to progress to the semi-final and will be delighted with her 3rd place.
Chloe Brown also finished 2d in the plate

In the U17 boys event Declan O Brien was 4th Ian Brown 6th Alex Cooney 8th, Andrew Reck 9th Colm Murphy won the plate beating club mate Shane O Connor in the final.

Colm Murphy, Winner Plate , U17

In the U 17 girls Edel O Reilly was 5th with Deirdre Murphy and Niamh Buttimer also in the top eight Emily O Reilly also did well in the Plate.

Dan Foley
Best of luck to Dan Foley who has been nominated for an award in a ceremony which will be held in the Metropole Hotel on Friday 23rd of April We will have a report and pictures of the night next week.

Week No.15

AGM

The clubs AGM will be held in the GAA meeting rooms on Weds 12th of May. We would like all parents to attend.

Munster Top 9
Well done to all our club members who played so well in the Munster top 9 which was held in Goleen over the weekend of the 8 titles on offer Ballincollig won 5.
In the U10 Boys we had 3 participants Karl Walsh finished 2nd with excellent performances from Niall Brown and Paul Cooney who finished 4th and 6th respectively.
In the U12 boys we had also 3 competitors Alan Walsh continued his great season by claiming 1st with the ever improving Gearoid O Donoghue 2nd and Paul Cooney who has 4 years still to play in this age group finishing 8th
In the U12 girls Chloe Brown was our only representative and she also put in an impressive performance in finishing 3rd
We again had 3 club members in the U14 boys with Shane O Connor Claiming his second title of the year Colm Murphy was also in impressive form finishing 2nd and Alan Walsh came in 7th
The U14 Girls saw our 2 club members in the top 4 Emily Burns claiming victory and Chloe Brown coming in 4th
In the U17 Boys we had 5 contenders Andrew Reck was in excellent form to claim the title Ian brown ran him close to finish 2nd and Alex Cooney made it a1, 2, 3. For the club by finishing 3rd Colm Murphy was 5th and Shane O Connor 6th
The U17 Girls also produced some great results filling the top 3 spots Deirdre Murphy taking the Title with Niamh Buttimer 2nd and Emily Burns 3rd and Emily O Reilly in 5th.

Well done again to all the players and Coach Ben Haughton on a great weekend for the club

The Stiga Junior Irish Championships are on this coming weekend. Timetable is on the event page.

We wish all our competitors the very best of luck.
Easter Camp

The Club held an Easter camp in youth reach from Tuesday the 6th to Friday the 9th of April the camp was full each day with the hard work done each day being shown in the Results from the top 9 and international tournaments club members took part in last weekend. Thanks to Coach Ben Haughton for a great week.

International Tournaments

Ireland’s STIGA sponsored Primary School Girls produced some fantastic performances to claim Team silver medals at the Primary Schools International hosted in Guernsey from the 9th-11th April. The Girls produced a blistering start defeating Wales 8-2 and Scotland 9-1 on the first day of play. Coach Louise Long and team of Katie and Elayna McGlone, Laura Finn and Sarah Cooney (Ballincollig) then faced into a battle against England, with the winners favourites to claim gold. Ireland were unlucky to lose 6-4, with the two matches dropped in the Doubles proving their downfall. Sarah Cooney recorded an impressive 2 wins against the English girls, with the critical doubles match going to 12-10 in the 5th set – Ireland went on to claim an impressive silver, but as always in sport will look to go one step further in 2011 – they were not far off defeating the highly rated English girls. In the Singles, all 4 girls progressed through their groups to the last 16. Laura Finn lost to England’s Abigail Griffith at this stage, while Katie McGlone and Cooney were unlucky to be drawn against each other – Katie joined sister Elayna in the last 8 following a 3-1 victory.

The Primary Schools Boys had a tougher weekend, losing to Scotland, Wales and England in the Team event to finish 4th. Coach Shay Logue and team of Mark Gordon, Ryan McConkey, James O’Reilly (Ballincollig) and Jonathan Porter had to regroup for the next day’s singles. In the Consolation Event, James O’Reilly will be delighted to claim gold, with a great win over Scotland’s Yazer Rasouf in the Final.
A great performance by Ireland’s Cadet Girls at the Cheltenham Select saw Ashley Givan add the Cheltenham Select title to her Cadet Six Nations and Senior Nationals medal haul. Team-mate Edel OReilly (Ballincollig) was also in top form and progressed to the Final before Givan pipped her to the title. Both girls lost in the quarter finals of the Juniors in close matches.
Well done to Sarah, Edel and James for their excellent displays over the weekend

Week No.14

Annual General Meeting
The clubs AGM will be held in the GAA meeting rooms on Weds 12th of May. We would like all parents to attend.
Munster Top 9
We would like to wish all our players the best of luck in Goleen over the weekend as they take part in the end of season top 9 With places still up for grabs in the Munster teams for the upcoming interprovincial a lot of exciting table tennis will be seen. Club members taking part are …
Saturday
U12 boys Alan Walsh, Gearoid O Donoghue and Paul Cooney
U12 Girls Chloe Brown
U17 Boys Ian Brown Alex Cooney, Andrew Reck, Colm Murphy ,Declan O Brien and Shane O Connor
U17 Girls Deirdre Murphy, Emily O Reilly, Niamh Buttimer and Emily Burns
Sunday
U10 Boys Karl Walsh Paul Cooney Niall Brown
U14 Boys Shane O Connor Colm Murphy and Alan Walsh
U14 Girls Sarah Cooney Emily Burns and Chloe Brown

6 Nations Primary Schools Competition
Congratulations and best of luck to Club members Sarah Cooney and James O Reilly who have been picked to represent Ireland in the 6 Nations primary schools competition which is being held in Guernsey.

Week No.13

Training over Easter….

Scoil Eoin finished for the Easter Break, it will recommence on Monday 12^th and Tuesday the 14th

Easter Camp…

The Club will hold an Easter camp in youth reach from Tuesday the 6th to Friday the 9th of April

Times 10.30 to 2pm.

Please contact Noelle for registrations 087 9417216

World Schools Update – Team Event

The Colaiste Choilm team made up of club members Declan O Brien, Alex Cooney, Eoin Murphy and Ben Aherne returned from Brno, Czech Republic after putting up a great display in finishing 11^th overall in the competition. They finished third in a very tough group comprising of  Poland, Slovakia, England and Malta. Having beaten Malta in their first game they then lost to both Poland and Slovakia but put in a great display to beat England 5-2. In the next phase which was to decide places 9-16 they had a great win over Italy but lost to Germany which put them in a playoff for 11 to 12 and in this they overcame Bulgaria to finish a very creditable 11th. Well done again to all the lads and the rest of the travelling party which included Ellen O Brien and Coach Ivan Shorten.

Community Games

The club had three teams in the Munster finals of the community games held in UL last Saturday and all 3 teams are heading for the All Ireland Finals which will be held in Athlone next month The U13 girls team made up of Chloe Brown Leah Daly and Sarah Cooney accounted for Clare in the Quarter Final without losing a game and it was the same in the semi-final against Limerick when again they won all there games. The final; saw them up against Kerry and again they ran out winners dropping just one set on the way. The U 13 boys team of James O Reilly Niall Brown Karl and Alan Walsh accounted for Limerick in the semi-final and wrapped up the final against Waterford with out losing a set, The U16 boys made it 3 out of 3 the team consisting of Paul Cooney Colm Murphy and Shane O Connor beat Waterford in the Semi- final and Clare had no answer for them in the final as they took the gold Well done to the teams and coach Ben Haughton

Senior Interprovincial

Congratulations to club members James Herley and Kevin O Keeffe (U21) Deirdre Murphy (Senior Ladies) and Dan Foley (Vets) who all represented Munster in the Inter Pros in Castlebar on the Weekend of March 27th. James and Kevin were part of the Munster team that brought home a silver medal the first time Munster have achieved this in many years. Deirdre also brought home a bronze as the senior team finished third.

Senior Training Youth Reach

Senior training which began last week continues in Youth Reach every Wednesday at 8.30pm this will initially run for 6 weeks Fee 25 euro. This will not continue unless numbers improve. All are welcome. !

Week No.12

4th Munster Ranking Tournament – Kinneigh 21/03/10

The club had another successful outing in Enniskeane in the 4th Munster Ranking tournament with places in the top 8 still up for grabs and also places on the Munster team for the up coming Interpros competition was intense.

Some of the highlights were Ballincollig took five of the eight titles.

Edel O Reilly again took the double of U14 and 17 Girls Ballincollig were also dominant in the other placings in these age groups with Emily Burns finishing second and Sarah Cooney third in the U14 where Chloe Brown won the plate In the U17 Deirdre Murphy was second Niamh Buttimer third Emily Burns sixth and Emily O Reilly eight.

Brother James kept it in the family by taking the U12 boys in a hard fought final against club mate Alan Walsh also in the top ten were Eoin O Reilly third Gearoid O Donoghue fifth Niall Brown eight Paul Cooney and Karl Walsh joint ninth.

Sarah Cooney won the U12 Girls title and there were also strong showings by Chloe Brown and Leah Daly with Chloe O Halloran winning the plate on her first outing for the club

There was a strong showing also in the boys U10 as Karl Walsh took second Paul Cooney third and Niall Brown an excellent fourth also in his first outing with the club Stephen O Sullivan won the plate.

In the U14 boys Shane O Connor was unlucky to lose out in the semis to Shane Foley 2 sets down he fought back to take the next 2 and in the final set he just lost out 14-12 he eventually finished 4th . Also in the top eight were Colm Murphy who was fifth and Alan Walsh seventh James O Reilly won the plate.

The U17s saw Ian Brown take the crown in a great final with club mate Alex Cooney, Andrew Reck came in third with Colm Murphy seventh Shane O Connor and Eoin Murphy joint ninth.

World Schools In Czech Republic

Best of luck to the Colaiste Choilm team made up of club members Declan O Brien, Alex Cooney, Eoin Murphy, and Ben Aherne who are travelling to Brno, Czech Republic to take part in the World Schools Championships… Players from 23 countries are taking part They include Belgium Flanders, China PR, Chinese Taipei, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Slovakia England…. together with the hosts from the Czech Republic .. And Ireland.
Colaiste Choilm have been drawn in group A with Poland Slovakia England and Malta
The competition takes place from 25th – 31st March 2010
Also included in the travelling party are Ellen O Brien and Coach Ivan Shorten.

Week No.11

Ireland Take Three Gold’s at Junior 6 Nations

At the 2010 Junior and Cadet 6 Nations Championships, Team Ireland  travelled home on Sunday night with 3 Gold medals – 2 in the Team events and one in the individuals. First to register Gold was the Cadet Girls Team of new National Senior Champion Ashley Givan and Edel O’Reilly of Munster. Under the guidance of NPC Louise Long, the cadet girls were undefeated, beating England to take Gold. Edel also picked up Bronze in the individual competition beating Charleigh Kirby of England Congratulations to Edel on this wonderful achievement.

Week No.10

A large number of club members travelled to DCU last weekend to take part in the Irish seniors open. It was great experience for what is a relatively young squad to take part in such an event. Well done to Colm & Eoin Murphy, James Herley, Kevin O Keeffe, Andrew Reck, Alex Cooney, Ian Brown, Deirdre Murphy, Edel and Emily O Reilly and Coach Ben Haughton.

The next 2 events on the calendar :

Ballincollig Senior Open, Sat 20th March, Youth Reach, Ballincollig.

10.30am Vets
10.30am U21
12.30am Senior – Men / Women

Kinneigh Munster Junior Ranking, Sunday 21st March, Closing Date 15th March.

Senior Training Youth Reach

Senior training will commence once again on March 24th at Youth Reach. It will continue each Wednesday for 6 weeks at 8.30pm dependent on numbers. Fee 25 euro for 6 weeks.

News : Week No.9

Congratulations to club members James Herley and Kevin O Keeffe (U21) Deirdre Murphy (Senior Ladies) and Dan Foley (Vets) who were all picked to represent Munster in the up coming Inter Pros on the Weekend of March 27th.

Exhibition
Some of our players went to Farran on Friday night to give an exhibition to the Farran Youth Club Shane, Colm, Eoin, James, Alan, Chloe and Sarah played a few matches and then took turns in showing some of the youth club members a few serves and shots. Hopefully we can return again on another date A big thank you to Ger and the committee of Farran for inviting us out.

Community Games
Three teams from the club travelled to Kinneigh on Saturday to play the Cork final of the community games. We had an U13 Girls team made up of Sarah Cooney, Chloe Brown and Leah Daly. U13 Boys Paul Cooney Alan Walsh Karl Walsh James O Reilly and Niall Brown and U16 Boys Shane O Connor ,Eoin Murphy, Colm Murphy. And Eoin Reilly It was a very successful day with all 3 teams qualifying for the Munster final, which will be held in UL in Limerick at the end of March.
In the U13 girls Ballincollig met Bantry and won the match 6-0
In the boys U13 Bantry were Ballincolligs opponents and Alan Walsh won a tight opening set 3-2 his brother Karl followed this up with 3-1 win. And James O Reilly then put Ballincollig within a game of the match with a 3-0 win. Alan James and Karl duly did this with 3-0 wins in their remaining games.
The U16 boys competition saw the tightest match of the competition as Ballincollig faced Kinneigh. Ballincollig got of to a dream start with 3-1 wins for Eoin over Barry Kelleher Colm against Brian Kelleher and Shane against Barry. Kinneigh were right back in it when Shane Foley defeated Eoin 3-0 and Shane lost a thrilling 5 setter to Brian 12-10 in the final set. Colm Murphy won another exciting five setter against Shane Foley to win the match for Ballincollig.
In the final Ballincollig stormed to victory Shane O Connor beating both James Heap and Cathal McCarthy 3-0, Colm Murphy winning 3-1 and 3-2 against Anthony and James respectively and Eoin winning against the same opponents 3-0 and 3-2.

Well done again to all 3 teams and Coach Ben Haughton !

Irish Seniors Open DCU

Best of luck to all club members who travel to Dublin on this weekend to take part in the Irish Senior Open this competition will be held in DCU full results and reports to follow next weekend.

News : Week No.8

Senior U21 and Vets Interpros

Congratulations to club members James Herley and Kevin O Keeffe (U21) Deirdre Murphy (Senior Ladies) and Dan Foley (Vets) who were all picked to represent Munster in the up coming Inter Pros on the Weekend of March 27th

Senior Competition Five Mile Town

Well done to the club members and Coach Ben Haughton who travelled to Fermanagh last weekend and again put in some great displays

Irish Sports Council: Carding Athlete Grant to Edel O’Reilly

Congratulations to Club member Edel O Reilly who was recently awarded a Junior Squad grant of 3000 euro for the year 2010. The grant will be used to defray the cost or part thereof of her Competition and Training Programmes. Including travel and accommodation as well as the cost of Clothing and equipment.
Edel who is currently number 1 in Munster at U14 and U17 and number 2 at National level at U14 She has also represented Ireland for the last number of years at various tournaments. This award is well deserved and following on from a similar award to Declan O Brien last year shows how high the standard is within the Club again well done to Edel.

Exhibition
Some of our players will travel to Farran Youth club this weekend to show of some of their wares report and pictures to follow next week.

News : Week No.7

British Leagues Update :
Well done to Ian Browne, Andrew Reck ,Alex Cooney ,Declan O Brien and Coach Ben Haughton who finished second in division 2A of the British Leagues held in Stoke On Trent last weekend. In a highly competitive group which included Ormsby, Scorpions, DHS London Progress, Burton and Bedford Modern the Lads won 4 of their 5 matches losing out narrowly to DHS London Progress for first place again well done to all the travelling party.

Intervarsity’s Tournament

Congratulations to club members James Herley Kevin O Keeffe and Ian Shellard who took part in the intervarsity’s tournament held in UCD on the 11th and 12th of Feb. The team event was held on Thursday and as part of the CIT team they took silver. The individual event was held on Friday with James picking up a silver and Kevin a Bronze.
News : Week No.6

Congrats to all club members who were invited to the Irish training camp in CIT last weekend. It was a two day event and the everyone acquitted themselves very well.

British Leagues :

Best of luck to Ian Browne, Andrew Reck, Alex Cooney, Declan O Brien and coach Ben Haughton who will represent the club in Stoke On Trent this weekend. Ballincollig have always performed well in this event and this year should be no exception.

NOTE : The BTTC Senior Open event has been moved to March 20th.

News : Week No.5

The Ballincollig Open was held on the weekend of the 30th of January with large entries in all age categories. It was great to see some of our new members playing in there first event also it was great to see Tralee Table Tennis Club making there first appearance at an Open even. Let’s hope it’s the first of many.

The weekend was a great success for BTTC as we had finalists in 7 of the 8 finals, with 5 of the finals being all Ballincollig affairs.

Some of the highlights of the day were…

A double for Edel O Reilly in both the U14 and U17 girls Finals
Alan Walsh who defied the odds to reach the final of the boys U14 and followed up by taking the U12 title
Shane O Connor who won his first U14 title of the season
Sarah Cooney winning the U12 girls and reaching the final of the U14s
And in the U17 Final a 5 set thriller between Declan O Brien and Ian Browne which was one of the best games played all year.

A full list of results is available on the Events Tab under “Recent Results”.

View all the photos of the 2010 Open on our “Photos”tab.

News : Week No. 4

We had a great weekend of table tennis in the Parochial Hall last weekend. The event was an Irish ranking event so there was lots of pride at stake. The full listing of results will be published in next weeks notes but some of the highlights were as follows.

James Herley runner up in the U21 boys and Edel O’Reilly runner up in the U14 Girls.

Other noteable results included

U10 Boys 5th Brian Keohane, 7th Ben Keohane, 8th Niall Browne
U12 Boys 4th James O’Reilly
U12 Girls 4th Sarah Cooney
U14 Boys, 8th Colm Murphy, 9th Shane O’Connor
U14 Girls, 2nd, Edel O’Reilly
U17 Boys , 8th Declan O’Reilly
U17 Girls, 5th Edel O’Reilly, 6th Deirdre Murphy
U21 Boys, 2nd James Herley, 3rd Kevin O’Keeffe

The Catering Crew

“Thanks to all the Ballincollig volunteers who helped with the catering at the Munster Open and a special thank you to Mary O’Connor for looking after the organization of this.”

Munster Schools Open

Well done to the Ballincollig schools who put in great displays in the Parochial Hall on Friday. The following were some of the results

Primary schools division 1 Scoil Eoin 1st
Primary schools division 2 Scoil Eoin 2nd
Primary schools division 2 scoil Eoin 3rd
U15 Boys 2nd Colaiste Choilm
U19 Boys 1st Colaiste Choilm
U17 Girls 1st Colaiste Choilm

The next event on the Calender is the Ballincollig open which takes place over this coming weekend. We would like to wish best of luck to all club members. Full results to follow next week.

News : Week No. 3

Very busy table tennis weekend ahead with both the Munster Schools and the Munster Open ( Fri 22/23/24 Jan ) events taking place in the Parochial Hall in Cork. Best of luck to all participants. A full list of the Munster Open results will be available in next weeks news update.

Senior Training will recommence in Youth Reach on Feb 3rd at 8.30pm. This will initially run for 6 weeks. Fee €25 payable on first night.

Membership fees are now due for the forthcoming term. Please pay on time.!

Umpire Training Course : The Munster branch of the ITTA will hold an umpire training course in Scoil Eoin on Friday 29th Jan from 7.30 to 9.30pm. This is a FREE course. All club members and interested adults are welcome.

News : Week No. 2

Training times are back to normal for the coming week.

Ladies training will resume in Scoil Eoin on 19th Jan at 7.30pm

Senior training has not yet commenced and  times will be published next week.

Membership fees are now due for the forthcoming term. Please pay on time.!

News : Week No. 1

Happy New Year  to everyone !!!!!!

The Christmas camp was once again a big success and thanks to everyone who braved the icy conditions to turn up. A special thanks to Ben Haughton for organising and running the event. This should be great preparation for club in what will be a very busy month.

Competitive training times for the new term are as normal  : See “Contact” tab for details

Ladies and Senior training times to be published later this week.

All new members welcome.

Remember the next two big events are coming up shortly, Munster Open and BTTC Open. See Events tab for dates.

Munster Training Camp : Congratulations to all players who have been selected for a Munster training cap on Jan 16/17th. Details on the “Events” tab.

Week 52 News

CIT Bursary : Congratulations to club members James Herley and Kevin O’Keeffe on receiving a sports bursary for table tennis from Cork Institute of Technology.

Training :
Training in Scoil Eoin is now finished until the New Year.
Training in Youth Reach will finish on Monday 21st December.

Ladies training in Scoil Eoin and Senior training in Youth Reach are also finished until the New Yea.

New training times will be published after Christmas.

Christmas Camp : Going ahead on the dates previously published. ( See events )

Seasons Greetings

All at the club would at this time of the year like to acknowledge

Donal Conway Scoil Eoin
Staff and Management of Youth Reach
Our coaches BEN, RUAIRI DAVID AND DECLAN
Dan Foley for his dedication to the Club
The Parents
And most of all the Players

And wish them all a Happy and safe Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous New Year

News : Week No. 51

Irish Girls in Fine Form at Stockton 4*

Last weekend saw a young Irish squad travel to England for the Stockton Junior 4 Star tournament. Highlights of the vent for the Irish included a gold for the Cadet Girls in the Team event, Ashley Givan and Ballincollig’s Edel O’Reilly combining well to defeat the Colin Deaton club of Derbyshire by 3 sets to 1. In the Singles event, O’Reilly was in superb battling form, winning a number of tight matches including a great win over Yolanda King (English No.5) to progress to the semi-finals.

Christmas Camp

The club will hold a Christmas Camp on the dates listed below

December 29th 30th and 4th 5th 6th of January

Times:

Scoil Eoin, Monday and Tuesday groups 10am to 11.300am

Youth Reach, Monday and Friday groups 11.30 am to 3pm

Full details will be on a note handed out at training.

Important Notice for Training :

Ladies Training in Scoil Eoin

Ladies training in Scoil Eoin will FINISH for the Christmas period on Tuesday 8th December.

Senior Training Youth Reach

Senior training in Youth Reach will FINISH for the Christmas period on Wednesday 9th December.

TRAINING TIMES FOR THE NEW YEAR WILL BE PUBLISHED AFTER CHRISTMAS