Delyth North, Maidstone Table Tennis Champion and founder member of the New Maidstone Table Tennis Club was excited to be selected to represent Wales at the Veterans Home Nations tournament in Nottingham last weekend 5^th – 7^th September 2025.

Expressing her delight at being selected she said “It’s about 25 years or more since I represented Wales last … I’ll be playing in the Home Nations again but this time in the VETTS Team”.

Since her selection Delyth has been training hard at the new Maidstone Table Tennis Club and her hard work paid off with Wales getting Bronze in the team event and with teammate Catherine Jones a silver medal in the Doubles.  Delyth commented that it was 30 years ago that she and Catherine last played together for Wales then in the Junior Home Nations.

Returning to the Maidstone club last evening to fulfil her weekly junior coaching duties she thanked everyone for their support and said “I played the best I’ve ever played! Practice obviously works!”.

Delyth is particularly keen for more girls to join the Maidstone club and hopefully follow in her footsteps.

 

Catherine Jones and Delyth North with their doubles silver medals.

The August holiday competition was completed on Tuesday 2nd September with the winner being presented with the Alan Woollven Shield, in honour of his contribution to junior coaching over many years.

Play had taken place over the August holidays to rank the players into groups for the finals.

 

Group 1 winner was Flynn Kemp and the runner up Raffaele Andreatta.

The trophies were presented by Alan Woollven’s son Paul, and daughter Rachel.

 

All results:

Group 1 winner was Flynn Kemp and the runner up Raffaele Andreatta.
Group 2 winner – Luke Burgess Clements
Group 3 winner – Antonio Haralambie
Non-league winner – Billy Woodams

 

Summer League finalists with coaches Adrian Moore and Delyth North.
In the centre, league organiser Johann Le (in the cap)