The National Award recipients were presented by the President, Pat Hunter at the Annual General Meeting on the 8th of June 2024, in the Conference Room at the Irish Sports HQ.
This year’s Joe Veselsky Award in recognition of endeavour and achievement on behalf of the Association has been awarded to Adrian Brown. Adrian has undertaken the Safeguarding Officer role for TTU in a Voluntary capacity, for a number of years ensuring governance requirements are met in this important role and delivering many training courses for TTU coaches and volunteers. As a member of TTU Committee he has also been central in securing additional grant funding to support Table Tennis development.
Alongside this Adrian is a qualified Umpire and Tournament Referee and he has devoted a considerable amount of time in an unpaid capacity in officiating at numerous TT events and also organising and acting as tournament referee for a significant number of local and national events.
Adrian’s professionalism is these roles sets an example to players and supporters alike.
A very worthy winner!
The Senior Male Player of the Year has been awarded to Tom Davis and Senior Female Player of the Year to Anjali Singh.
Other Awards decided are:
Junior Male Player of the Year: Peadar Sheridan
Junior Female Player of the Year: Grace Looney
Para Player of the Year: Mick Cunningham
Young Coach of the Year 2024
Ben Watson
Male Coach of the Year 2024
John Fall
Female Coach of the Year 2024
Claire Nelson
Volunteer of the Year 2024
David Gibbons
Club of the Year 2024
Ormeau Table Tennis Club
School of the Year 2024
Grosvenor Grammer School
International Performance of the Year 2024
Daryl Strong
Masters Player of the year 2024
Teresa Devaney
The end of Season Underage Irish No.1’s were also announced at the AGM and presented as follows:
Irish No. 1 – Under 19 Boys 2024 – Vincent Ni
Irish No.1 – Under 17 Boys 2024 –Vincent Ni
Irish No.1 – Under 15 Boys 2024 – Aaditya Singh & Clifford Tan
Irish No.1 – Under 13 Boys 2024 –Karsten Close
Irish No.1 – Under 19 Girls 2024 –Emily Flynn
Irish No.1 – Under 17 Girls 2024 –Anjali Singh
Irish No.1 – Under 15 Girls 2024 –Eimear Hutchinson
Irish No.1 – Under 13 Girls 2024 –Polly Smith
Congratulations to all recipients of these awards.