Honor Members

Emma is a middle school student in New Jersey. She started playing table tennis at the age of 6 for fun. Later as she progressed, she has been training at MatchPoint Table Tennis Center ever since. Emma has won several Pan American Champs, USA National, Regional and State Champion titles. She made to the USA Table Tennis Junior National Girls Team every year since age 10.  In Oct 2025, Emma finished 3rd in the ITTF World Hopes Week and Challenge and received ITTF "With The Future in Mind" scholarship. Emma hopes that one day she can become an Olympian.

Rassi is a 6th grader with a passion for table tennis, she started playing in 2019 as a hobby and now plays professionally. Rassi lives in Florham park and plays at MatchPoint Table Tennis Center. She hopes one day she can join national team. 

Jacob started playing table tennis at age of 5. He holds the #1 ranking in the U11 boy singles category nationally as of late 2024/early 2025 and is highly ranked in U13 singles. In December 2024, he achieved a USATT rating of 2324 at the age of 10, a historic accomplishment. He has represented Team USA at the Pan American Championships, notably winning a gold medal in U11 boys' doubles at the 2024 event and three gold medals in the 2025 Pan Am U11 boys events including team, single, boys double. Jacob finished 2nd place in 2025 ITTF World Hopes Challenge.

Samuel is a middle schooler who lives in Livingston, NJ. He began learning table tennis in September 2023. After a few months’ practice and learning, he started developing a passion for this sport. When he found out about the JOOLA 26th Annual North American Team Championships in November 2024, he decided to practice a lot to prepare. After a year of training, Samuel and his teammates won Division 9 Team Champion title at 27th JOOLA North American Team in 2025. Now he practices every single day whenever he has some free time. This is just the beginning, he is here to play the long game, and table tennis will be his life long passion. Outside table tennis, he is an avid Roblox gamer and YouTuber.

Jerry is a sophomore in New Jersey high school. I joined BTT because I wanted to promote the sport I loved. Table tennis has really changed my life, pulling me out of a dark episode during the pandemic. At that time, we switched to remote learning, something that did not work for me. I poured my excess energy into a video game addiction so severe that I started skipping almost all my classes.

Some time around the summer for 2021, my mom heard about my friend Alan attending a table tennis class at a local club. I wasn’t very interested at first, but the thought of reconnecting with my friend and a little pressure from my parents eventually led me to trying it out. The group lessons I took at first were with little kids half my age (maybe around 5-6), but I still had a lot of fun just hitting the ball around. I started looking forward to the Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays that I had my lessons. I owe a lot of my initial love for table tennis to the coach running those lessons, who made them fun and engaging. I got invested in the sport as I improved and it pulled my attention away from video games and improved my mental health a lot. Recently, I became the 95th New Jersey U15 State Champion. 

I’ve met people from all different backgrounds and all different ages and have learned so many things in my journey. Since it is a mostly individual sport, I learned to take responsibility for any mistake that I made instead of blaming it on outside factors, something that has made me much happier with everything I do in general. Table tennis is a really amazing sport. It’s accessible to anybody. People with disabilities, elderly people, and very young people can all enjoy the sport. It’s easy to pick up a paddle and start playing but you can still take it to the highest level.

Angela is a 7th grader that goes to the middle school in Livingston, NJ. She's been playing table tennis for 4 years. When she isn't playing table tennis she likes to draw and listen to music.