jOHN CUNNINGHAM YOUTH DIVISION

SEPTEMBER 2024

UNFORTUNATELY THERE WILL BE NO YOUTH DIVISION THIS SEASON DUE TO THE ABSENCE OF ANY VOLUNTEERS TO RUN IT.

The Youth Division matches take place on a Friday Evening 7:30pm-9:30pm, every week between September and March/April (The table tennis season) at Bluecoat School, Sonning.

Directions: from Cemetery Junction take A4 to roundabout at top of Shepherds Hill, continue across railway bridge and take first left into Sonning Lane (B446). Bluecoat School is on the left opposite Berks County Sports Club. Table tennis is held in the Gym adjacent to the car park.

Organiser: VACANCY

Divisional Fixture Secretary:  VACANCY

Youth Division Format

The First Session Will Be A Meet And Greet Session, Where Players And Parents Will Have The Opportunity To Get To Know Each Other And We Will Be Able To Form The Teams And Complete Admin.

Players are in teams of at least 3 players and play matches against other teams each week.  Each team will play all of the other teams up to Christmas. 

All results are entered on the website, and after Christmas they are split into 2 divisions. where they play each of the teams in their division twice.
The winners and runners up of each division then get trophies at the Reading Awards ceremony (usually in may)

During the season we hold 2 competitions;

1 - The Grouping Tournament - there are 3 age groups for this and they play round robins, then knock outs, with the finals being played at the Christmas Party.

2 - The Alan Dines Memorial Handicap Competition -  (in memory of my predecessor) where players are given a handicap, worked out by their % in the league.

Fun Nights happen on occasions where parents are invited along to play doubles with their child/ren before being separated and competing against them.  We then play beat the champion which is an individual points game and quite popular.

The aim of the youth Division is to teach the players team play, commitment, respect for their opponents, the officials, the game and themselves (the overall etiquette of table tennis) as well as being directed in their play and technique and to have fun.

From here many players are invited to play in the national Cadet and Junior teams and continue on to play in the Senior league.  They may also be put forward to represent the county.

To play in the Youth Division, Players must be registered with a club which is a member of  Reading Table Tennis Association and have an up to date Table Tennis England Membership. 
There is a fee to play in the Division, which goes towards league membership and hall hire.
Donations are asked for at the parties towards the food.

welcome All to the 2019-2020 season

This season starts Friday 13th September 2019 and runs through until March/April 2020

Please click here  to view and download this years registration form.

Please click here to view and download the Youth League responsibilities form.

To check the group results 0 GROUPING TOURNAMENT 2018.xlsx 

SEMI FINAL
 
 
 
 
FINAL
 
 
 
WINNERS
MAIN COMPETITION
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NAME
1
2
3
NAME
1
2
3
 
1st  1A
Harry Bullock
8
11
7
 
 
 
 
GROUP 1 MAIN
2nd  1B
Alex Eaton  W/D
11
3
11
Harry Bullock
6
12
11
Harry Bullock
1st  1B
Rajat Sawant
11
8
11
Rajat Sawant
11
10
3
 
2nd  1A
Ryan Griffiths
6
11
4
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1st  2A
Mo Cook
11
11
 
 
 
 
 
GROUP 2 MAIN
2nd  2B
Tommy Woodward
7
6
 
Mo Cook
12
11
 
Mo Cook
1st  2B
Adrian Mitchell
13
11
 
Adrian Mitchell
10
2
 
 
2nd  2A
Tejas Mungale
11
2
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1st  3A
Josh Sandland
11
11
 
 
 
 
 
GROUP 3 MAIN
2nd  3B
Adytia Mali
4
9
 
Josh Sandland
11
6
8
Om Gore
1st  3B
Holly Ranson
9
9
 
Om Gore
7
11
11
 
2nd  3A
Om Gore
11
11
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CONSOLATION COMPETITION
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
NAME
1
2
3
NAME
1
2
3
 
3rd  1A
Arran Reeves
11
11
 
 
 
 
 
GROUP 1 CONSOLATION
4th  1B
James Cunningham
6
4
 
Arran Reeves
12
11
 
Arran Reeves
3rd  1B
Rudresh Desai
11
10
7
Rishika Desai
10
7
 
 
4th  1A
Rishika Desai
7
12
11
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3rd  2A
Ria Gore
9
11
10
 
 
 
 
GROUP 2 CONSOLATION
4th  2B
Yuvam Mittal
11
6
12
Yuvam Mittal
7
8
 
Prakhar Gandhi
3rd  2B
Prakhar Gandhi
 
 
 
Prakhar Gandhi
11
11
 
 
4th  2A
BYE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3rd  3A
Vibha Mali
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
GROUP 3 CONSOLATION
4th  3B
Bye
 
 
 
Vibha Mali
9
11
6
Harry Harper
3rd  3B
Harry Harper
11
8
11
Harry Harper
11
5
11
 
4th  3A
Emma Ranson
7
11
7
 
 
 
 
 

JCYD 2017/2018

Welcome back to the second half of our season.

We returned on Friday 5th January 2018, with a Friendly Player and Parent Evening. 27 Players and 17 Parents joined us.

Here parents were invited to join in with the players for games of Doubles Top Table.  They start partnering their child then swap over to play with someone else, resulting in playing against their child.  After a while, we went to playing a game of "Beat the Champion", where they played single ralleys moving round the tables trying to build up points to become the champions themselves.  Much excercise and fun was had by all.

Next week, 12th January 2018, we begin the 2 divisions.  There are 6 teams in each division, so they will all play every week, challenging for the trophies at the end of the season.

On 16th February (half term week) we will hold the Alan Dines Memorial Handicap Competition.

The Season Began on friday 8th September 2017

Players are in teams of at least 3 players and play matches against other teams each week.  This year we have 11 teams, so they play each of the other 10 teams in the first half of the season (up to Christmas).       

1 - The Grouping Tournament held on 27th October with 26 players attending.  Event 1 (eldest 9 players in 1 group of 5 and 1 group of 4), Event 2 (middle 8 players in 2 groups of 4), Event 3 (youngest 9 players in 1 group of 5 and 1 group of 4).  Finals to be Staged at the Christmas Party on Friday 15th December (Parents are welcome, and encouraged to stay, watch and support on this occasion) -  Click here for this years results

2 - The Alan Dines Memorial Handicap Competition -  (in memory of my predecessor) where players are given a handicap, worked out by their % in the league.  More info nearer the time and there will be a link to the results page when the tournament is run in February.

The John Cunningham Youth Division 2016/17

The season ran from Friday 9th September 2016 to Friday 31st April 2017

JCYD 2016-2017 Season Registration Form - JCYD 2016-2017 Registration form.doc

Grouping tournament - CLICK HERE to see the results from this season's tournament.

Alan Dines Memorial Handicap Competiton - ALAN DINES MEMORIAL HANDICAP WRITE UP - ADAM MCTIERNAN.docx

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READING CLOSED 2015-2016 Season

Junior weekend is 20th and 21st February 2016

Senor weekend is 13th and 14th February 2016

Please download the forms for the Reading closed from the Downloads page found in the Information drop down.

(14/11/15) Grouping Tournament

During the half term week 30/10/15, we held our group matches from the 2015 tournament.

Click the link below to see the results for the group matches

   JCYD Grouping tournament 2015.xlsx

   JCYD GROUPING TOURNAMENT RULES.docx

The Finals will be staged at the Christmas Party.

(13/10/15) So we have started the 2015-2016 Season in the JCYD

And the Raiders have taken an early lead.

There has been some good table tennis played and some fun too. 

Having the chance to play the matches on 2 tables, gives us time at the end for some Beat the Champion.

As well as having Joe Barraclough there to help, we also have Jim McAllister, who is doing his school project.

They are there to give some excellent guidence to our young players, and are a big help.

(13/10/15) First session of National Junior League was last weekend (Saturday 10th October)

We had 3 teams, led by Sam Ricks, who said they all done very well.

A team  of Harry Munro, Thomas Perkins and Yonatan Slobodskoy won 2 of their 3 matches

B team of Joe Barraclough, Eddie Haines and Tom Lewis won 3 of 3

C team of Bill Hayden, Rory Walder and Tamir Slobodskoy  won 3 of 3

- full details and photos to follow

2015-16 Season

Our top players from last season have moved on to play in the Senior league this season (at a high standard) and we wish them all the best.

We also lost some players, who have given up table tennis, and some who have gone to boarding school, but we have also had some new players join and we welcome them all.

This Season we have 8 teams, who will play each other in the first half of the season leading up to Christmas.

We began on 18th September, with a meet and set up session, and followed that on 25th with a friendly "play your team" night, and fun games, so everyone could get to know each other.

We will have a catch up / training session on 23rd October, followed by our Grouping Tournament on 30th October (half term).  With the usual staged finals preceding the Christmas party on 11th December, following a catch up / training session on 4th December.

The serious matches start next week (2nd October) Good luck to everyone.

Check the fixtures and results to see how everyone is doing,

National Cadet & Junior Leagues

Many of our youth league players play for Reading in the National Cadet & Junior League.

2014-15 Season

The 2014-2015 season has finished - check out all the results and averages via the FIXTURES & RESULTS menu option, under "Archive".

2013-14 Season

Players averages are listed separately for each team they have played for.

For that reason, the link below shows the accumulative averages

   Averages for end of Divisions 2013-14 season.xlsx

What an exciting finish to the season.  Both Division titles being fought for on the final week.

Congratulations go to Spartans in Division 1, who clinched the title by 1 point over Tigers, after them having a very well fought last match.

Congratulations go to Lions in Division 2, who one by 3 points over Knights, after battling out the final games with both teams being short of regular players.

2012-13 Season

All the John Cunningham Youth Division finalists from 2012-2013 season:

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