FORT WORTH, Texas – The National Champion Texas Wesleyan University table tennis team kicks off the 2003 season on Tuesday, January 28, with an NCTTA-Texas Division match against metroplex rival SMU. This is the first of six matches Wesleyan must play in order to qualify for a return trip to the national championship tournament in late March.

The National Collegiate Table Tennis Association (NCTTA) sponsors 16 divisions around the country, each consisting of between four and eight teams. Teams within each division play each other to determine a champion, who then goes on to represent that division at the national tournament, which will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on March 30. The four Texas Division schools, Wesleyan, SMU, Baylor, and Rice, will play each other twice over the next two months, and Wesleyan is heavily favored to emerge on top.

Tuesday’s match against the Mustangs begins at 7 PM in the Sid Richardson Gymnasium. Admission is free for everyone. Matches generally last between two and three hours, so come support our table tennis team in their first step towards back-to-back National Championships.