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


Wednesday, 18 July 2018

A stream of nominations and awards

Following the superb performance of the England team at the Commonwealth games Maria was nominated for the BUCS Sportswoman of the year. The University reported "Maria displayed her incredible talent as a table tennis player this year, and is currently ranking 3rd in England for the sport. This year, she claimed two golds and a silver at the BUCS Table Tennis Championships, and led the Nottingham Women’s Table Tennis to League 1 honors as well as the BUCS Big Wednesday Championship final without dropping a single match. She was selected to represent Team England at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, where she helped secure a bronze medal in the women’s team event. Amazingly, Maria also served as the club president for table tennis at the university while juggling her BUCS, international and academic commitments." 
Maria has also being nominated for the TASS Star of the Year award.She will be up against fellow Commonwealth Games bronze medallist from Gold Coast, shooter Sam Gowin, and British triple jump Champion Naomi Ogbeta, with the winners to be revealed at a presentation event on Saturday 21 July.

She was also presented with the Nottingham University Vice Chancellor medal.

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