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Fred Danner
Fred Danner – the author of this book was Director of Junior Development for the U.S. Table Tennis Association and is a certified coach & umpire. He has represented the United Stat...view moreFred Danner – the author of this book was Director of Junior Development for the U.S. Table Tennis Association and is a certified coach & umpire. He has represented the United States as Captain of the U.S, Womens International Team in matches with Canada; was the Team Leader for the first table tennis Pan American Games in 1979, and became the first table tennis Delegate for North America serving on the Executive Board of the United States Olympic Committee.
His book “The National School Table Tennis Guide” was used to teach courses in 6 universities & distributed to physical education instructors throughout the U.S.
Later, as a Vice-President of the USTTA, he negotiated with the Peoples Republic of China to bring China and the sport of Table Tennis into the 1988 Summer Olympic Games. His work to establish the National Jr. and National Table Tennis Foundations has helped to fund many Association programs.
In 1993 he was inducted into the U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame and in 2010 he received the Mark Matthews Lifetime Table Tennis Award as an administrator. His longtime goal for table tennis is to introduce it into the education curricula of our national school systems.view less
Books by Fred Danner
Adventures of the Ping-Pong Diplomats: Volume 1: the U.S.-China Friendship Matches Change World History