The student-organized Table Tennis Club is beginning its second year and welcomes students who enjoy meeting new friends and playing.

The club is free to any student wishing to join. The club collects small entry fees for the tournaments. The club has a ladder system to classify levels of players, but students who simply enjoy playing can join the Table Tennis Club to further their skills and meet other players.

The club meets from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. most Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in the bowling alley in the lower level of the McGlothlin Campus Center.  For people with schedule conflicts, the club has a contact list that allows people to get in touch with others and play whenever they are available.

Brady Campbell, junior psychology major from Abilene, started the club last year. Campbell said because there are a lot of other interesting activities on campus, it took a lot of work to get the club organized.

“Table tennis is one of my favorite games,” Campbell said.

This year, Cambell said he did not have enough time to run the club, so he handed the presidency over to Benjamin Hayes, junior business major from Dallas.

Hayes said the club started last Fall and is sponsored by ACU. The club is looking for people who enjoy playing table tennis.

“There are a lot of people who can play table tennis. Some people are very good, and some people are not very good, but the fact is – everyone enjoys playing. The club provides a contact sheet for people, and lets people know who else plays ping pong and who enjoys the same passion of it,” Hayes said.

The Table Tennis club uses a ladder to rank players. There are 36 people in the ladder, and overall club membership is about 50 people.

“The ladder allows you to go where the spot is,” Hayes said. “That way, anybody in the club knows what level they are, whether they are very good or not, so they can play with the same level people or challenge the higher level.”

Hayes hopes that in the future there will be more members in the club, and that they can hold more tournaments.

“We did a league last spring. Maybe we will do it again,” Hayes said. “Like round-robin, everyone gets to play with everyone else over a series of a few months.”

Kevin Gray, junior information technology major from Longview, is a member of the Table Tennis Club. He comes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday to play with his friends.

“Benjamin started teaching me how to play at my freshman year,” Gray said. “Whenever they formed this club, I was just in it. It is good exercise.”