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Hey all I'm Richard Heo, from East Coast U.S. PA to those of you who are in the area. I've been playing for 8 years and have been Coaching for the last 4. I've played for the Penn State Berks and Main Campus teams and been the PSU Berks President 2 separate years. I would have to say my greatest achievement has been to grow the sport of TT in my area. In 2004-2005 I grew the Berks club from around 12 players to over 65 players. Then in my returning year in 07-08 I grew the club from scratch back up to around 40 players. Now in my hometown I just started a new club which has over 20 players that have come in to play although we have around 12 regulars.
My goal is to grow the sport ridiculously in the next couple of years and hopefully have a facility for the 2016 Olympics. We currently only have under 8000 players in the U.S. that play in regular tournaments. Their aim is to grow it about 1 percent for the next 5 years and then increase that to about 5-10 percent. I say shame on them for not thinking big and I plan on filling the next 5 years quota into 1 and with any luck start a new industry here in the U.S.
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