Maria Tsaptsinos: GLL Foundation Award

Maria Tsaptsinos

...started playing table tennis during the last year of her primary schooling and then joined Kingfisher club whereas she trained with Brian Halliday and later had weekly sessions with Gareth Herbert. Then she was invited to Lilleshall and Sheffield for the Youth Development Squad and consequently to the International Youth Squad. Represented England in various tournaments since 2012 and participated at the Youth Europeans as a Caded and Junior. In 2015 the first call for a senior cap came for the Europeans and Table Tennis Commonwealth.
Maria currently is a scholar at University of Nottingham studying Geography.
Her other interests include football, music and spends time socialising on facebook.

Sponsors: Tees Sport, Spire Dunedin Hospital, SSE with the help of SportsAid, Table Tennis 365, TASS

Friday, 25 March 2011

GLL Foundation Award

To mark '500 days' until the beginning of the 'London 2012 Olympics', the GLL Sport Foundation announced that for 2011 it will support over 850 young sportsmen and women from across London and the South of England. The GLL Sport Foundation was founded in 2008 with Sally Gunnell OBE as Patron. It plans to give in excess of £1.5m to young athletes in selected areas of London and the South of England in the run up to 2012 and beyond.

The 2011 Awards combine training grants and financial assistance to athletes worth in excess of £400,000. This makes the GLL Sport Foundation one of the largest independent athlete talent support structures in the UK.

The successful applicants were announced on 15th March 2011 at a VIP event held at the landmark building 'One Canada Square; Canary Wharf in London. The venue gave fantastic panoramic views of the emerging 'Olympic Park', where many of the Foundation athletes aspire to compete.

The athletes sponsored by the Foundation represent over 60 sports across a broad range of Olympic, Paralympic, Deaflympic and Special Olympic sporting disciplines ranging from athletics and swimming through to gymnastics, judo, fencing, and wheelchair basketball.

Awards were presented to a selection of individual young athletes representing various sports. Maria Tsaptsinos, was invited to attend and represent Table Tennis. Maria was presented with her award by Zac Purchase MBE, Olympic and World lightweight men's double sculls rowing champion and Peter Bundey, Chair of the GLL Sport Foundation.

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