The Jamaica Table Tennis Association (JTTA) will be having its annual general meeting (AGM) and elections on June 11 at the SDF headquarters at 6:00 pm.

The JTTA will have a new president, as the acting president Peter Moo Young, who took over the running of the association fully after elected president Stephen Hylton resigned, has made it clear he will not be seeking the post.
Past administrations have waited until the date for an election is constitutionally due before calling an election.

However, in a brief statement to fellow JTTA councillors a few days earlier, the acting president said: "June 8 is our anniversary date, and beyond that it would be too late, for people to wait, for me to fly the gate".

Moo Young was part of an administration whose campaign tenet "better table tennis now" was elected en bloc headed by three-time Caribbean champion Stephen Hylton at the JTTA's 50th annual general meeting at the Sports Development Foundation Office on Phoenix Avenue on June 8, 2003.

The tenet never materialised and the elected members of the team of Hylton as president, Moo Young, second vice-president, Dr Robert Green, third vice-president, and Roxanne Morris, general secretary, gradually disintegrated with resignations, leaving Moo Young to man the operations of the JTTA with the assistance of some of the association's councillors.

During his stay, Moo Young was instrumental in obtaining the services of the two top Chinese coaches to work with local players at all levels. He also had a hand in getting top netter Nigel Webb to receive coaching in China in his preparation for the 2004 Olympic trial.

Webb is currently in China undergoing a one-year intensive training stint at the country's Shanghai facility.

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