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Laura, Gr. 4, with her table tennis trophies
Laura, Gr. 4, with her table tennis trophies

Have you heard about Laura L. table tennis star? She’s a Grade 4 student who’s gaining international attention due to her out of this world table tennis skills. Laura, who’s been playing since the age of seven, has been getting top honours at her tournaments including the 2012 BC Elementary Schools Table Tennis Championships. Her goal is to be the best table tennis player in the world, and to represent Canada at the 2020 Olympic Games. She’s well on her way!

Laura was recently featured on CTV’s Perry’s Prospects. Check out this video to see her amazing (and mesmerizing!) skills in action. When she plays it “looks like a dance”. Click the image below to watch the video:

Laura L. - Table Tennis Star
Click the image to watch Laura in action
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Tigers scratch out competition to win Lower Mainland AAA tourney

By Megan Stewart, Vancouver Courier

Process and outcome. One means preparation, the other means victory and both have so far meant success for the AAA York House Tigers.

Provincial AA champions last year, the Tigers pushed themselves this season to compete and win at the AAA level. Tiger’s head coach Winston Brown broke down the benefits of their day-to-day preparation.

“For the most part, our process goals are more important than our outcome goals. Usually if we achieve our process goals, then the outcomes take care of themselves,” he said.

“For an outcome goal, we’re looking at winning the Lower Mainland championship. That’s an outcome, whereas our process is committing to working out three days a week, committing to getting up 500 shots in a practice, committing to learning and knowing all of our plays, all of our sets. Those are the processes we go through in order to achieve whatever outcome we have.”

On Saturday the York House Tigers defeated North Vancouver’s Handsworth Royals 81-65 to with the Crehan Cup, the trophy handed out to the best senior girls AAA basketball team in the Lower Mainland.