Hello All! Perhaps like many of you, I grew up with a table in the basement, which brought many hours of fun. I went on to play some recreational table tennis in college and at clubs in the 1980s in Rockford, Illinois and when I moved to Indianapolis. I always loved the game, but it wasn’t until Dave Stout opened his club on West 79th Street in Indy 6+ years ago that I started to take the sport more seriously and really came to enjoy trying to get better at it.
Dave Stout, as with subsequent owners Patrick, Anton and Anish and owners of clubs before the one on W 79th, along with some great coaches, really raised the level of play in the city. With the recent dissolution of the clubs on W 79th, it is time for those of us who benefited from past clubs to come together and ensure that the growth in the sport continues in Indianapolis.
For that reason, a group of players has formed an organizing committe to seek out new facilities and a financial plan for moving forward. Unless we can find a new investor (or investors) who can bankroll a new facility, we may need to take smaller steps initially, which might mean we cannot have a dedicated facility at first. But experience at recent clubs has provided evidence that players in Indianapolis are willing to pay signficant monthly fees to play the game in a quality facility, and so we do believe that indianapolis can once again have a dedicated table tennis facility.
Please provide your contact information (at info@indianapolistabletennis.org) or watch this web site to stay informed. Even better, please let us know of any facilities you know of in the area that could host our new club or people/groups who might be able to provide seed capital to get the new club going.
Thanks for your interest!
Peter Boerger
Organizing Committee Member