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


Monday, 23 July 2018

TASS Star of the Year


Maria was announced as the Star of the Year at the TASS awards. In the words of TASS:
"Table tennis player Maria Tsaptsinos was named as the winner of the Star of the Year category, the ultimate accolade in recognition of an outstanding achievement in sport or study. In April, the 21-year-old won a historic women’s team bronze medal at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games whilst also working towards a first class honours Geography degree."

Read more here

Because Maria was not able to attend the ceremony she was presented with the award prior to her university graduation by the TASS representative at Nottingham University.

And the TTE report can be found here
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