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Club Contacts, Coaching & Practice
We are located at the Our Lady of Peace Community Centre, 338 Wokingham Road, Earley,
Reading, Berkshire RG6 7DA (entrance off Aldbourne Avenue). Tel: 0118 9352927
The main club contacts are as follows:
Mike Burrow - General Secretary - Tel: 01189665749 - Email:Mike Burrow
Alan Dines – Chairman, Club Head Coach and Development Officer - Tel: 01189311142 - Email: Alan Dines
Coaching is lead by Alan Dines, who has run the Institute of Match Play and Coaching Techniques
(IMPACT) for nearly 40 years. In that time he has coached some of the countries
finest players, including the Syed brothers, Farquhar sisters and currently the
McTiernan brothers and Daniel Mosses.
In 2008 Alan was presented with the prestigious ETTA Contribution to Coaching award and the
Wokingham District Council Coach of the Year award.
Coaching and practice sessions are run on the following days (including school and publicholidays):
Sunday:
9.30-11.00: Junior (under 18) Beginners
11-12.30: Junior Intermediates and Advanced
12.30-15.00: Adult practice (mixed ability)
Tuesday:
17.00-19.00: Junior Elite
19.00-21.00: Senior & Family practice (out of season only)
Wednesday:
17.00 – 19.00: After School coaching
19.00 – 21.00: Junior Intermediate/Advanced (out of season only)
Friday:
19.00 – 21.00 - Informal practice for club members (out of season only)
Club Facilities
Facilities at the club are excellent and include superb playing conditions, six fold away
Butterfly tables, a rest area and kitchen. There is also a social club on site,
complete with lounge bar, but you need to be a member of the social club to use
these facilities – you will find further details of how to join elsewhere on
this website.
The club took possession of a state of the art robot in 2008, which has greatly assisted in
training sessions, providing challenges for both beginners and advanced players alike.
Roll of Honour
OLOP teams have always been highly successful in winning league titles, cups and
individual competitions and honours. Last season OLOP E won the Reading & District Table Tennis Association (RDTTA) Division
2 league title and the Team Handicap Cup and Neil Cartwright won both the Reading Closed Singles and the Reading Masters titles.
In the RDTTA Youth League, a team of four OLOP players (The Impact Thunderbolts) won the
league title. This season, young Liam McTiernan has already won the RDTTA Individual Handicap Cup.
A full Club Roll of Honour will follow soon.
School Links
OLOP have close links with a number of local schools, most notably Maiden Erlegh
Secondary School in Earley and St Dominic Savio Roman Catholic Primary School
in Woodley, where coaching sessions are regularly run by Alan Dines, assisted
by Liam McTiernan and Michael Childs.
Both schools competed in this season’s English Schools Table Tennis Association (ESTTA)
National Team Championships, with St Dominic’s reaching the Regional Finals.
Affiliations & Sponsorships
Our Lady of Peace Table Tennis Club is affiliated to the RDTTA (Reading & District
Table Tennis Association), BWDTTA (Bracknell Wokingham and District Table
Tennis Association), RCBTTA (Royal County of Berkshire Table Tennis
Association) and the ETTA (English Table Tennis Association).
Our Lady of Peace Table Tennis Club is proudly sponsored by Tees Sport , Butterfly, A1
Plumbing, Declan Duffy Homefires and M.J.Parsons Windows.
If anyone else would like to sponsor the Club in any way please contact John Cunningham.
A Sport for All
Table tennis is one of the most popular indoor sports in the world and with equipment being
relatively inexpensive to start (OLOP will happily loan bats and balls to
beginners), we are sure you will find it an exhilarating experience.
It is truly a sport for all ages, all abilities all your life so why not take it up now,
particularly with the inspiration of the Olympic Games coming to Britain in
2012, bringing the world’s top players to our shores.
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