3 Time World Champ in Table Tennis STELLAn BENGSSTON Coaches Team ICC Table Tennis
India Community Center  in Milpitas, SF BAy area

Milpitas, California:  Swedish table tennis star Stellan Bengsston, World Champion 1971  Men's Singles and also the holder of 67 International titles including the 1973 World's Doubles and Team Championships, and 7 European Championships has made an appearance in SF Bay area- catering his specialized skills to the Indian-American community.
Brought to hone the skills of promising youngsters at club ICC Table Tennis club, Bengsston and his wife Angie Rosal Bengtsson also a former USA team member and at one time ranked #1 and #2 in the US, and 4-time Womens Doubles Champion,and  twicea US Singles runner-up, are busy running drills at the ICC Mallavalli auditorium. The special camp if for Beginner and Intermediate kids and also Advanced Level kids followed by Adults Advanced Level (USATT Rating over 1900) . The camp which ran from November 19-23rd and was held at India Community Center (ICC) Milpitas.

“ I am excited to see many talented Indian-American youngsters” says bespectacled Bengsston. “ I have spotted a some very  good prospects and as they improve, you will notice good results very soon.”

Following the success of ICC Table tennis team in various leagues across the Bay area as well as a very stroing showing at the US junior Olympics in 2006 and 2007, winning several medals in every category they enetered, each time- Coach Sheth got a shot in the arm via strong response from the Indian American community. So much so that, Coach Sheth routinely enters non Indian-origin players into Team ICC.

With 10 year old Parth Upadhyay and Aarsh Vyas responding to the Bengsston’s coaching, alongside cute 8 year old Diane Jiang, already fans and frequent visitors’ are seeing the difference.

“We plan to enter regularly tournaments in the Bay area, hosted by Bay area clubs like Concord, Stanford, Palo Alto, Berkeley,” says Coach Sheth, and if recent successes are any indication, Team ICC will dominate several age categories once again.
Adding to the success of the kids is also the recent endorsement by corporate sponsors JUIC and Paddle Palace, who awarded nine select players and their coach with complete outfits from “toe to head’ including rubbers for their table tennis bats, which routinely get replaced after a month or so at cost of hundreds of dollars each.

Meanwhile Coach Sheth is already planning ahead. With pressures of other ICC programs  and also rentals by third parties of the ICc Mallavalli auditorium – which hosts the table tennis tables, Sheth, the director of Sports and Recreation activities for ICC,  has started scouting for newer locations. “While we have identified some space at a school in Milpitas and also in the city of Cupertino, now we are looking for  a (feasible) location that may include other indoor sports offerings along with table tennis,”says Coach Sheth.

Coach Stellan Bensston with Author Sam Rao in mikpitas, California. Stellan is 3 time World Champ in Table Tennis