T3’s official coach: Hewley Griffith

Introducing Hewley Griffith, teaching the T3 team a thing or two!

Introducing Hewley Griffith, former Guyanese no.1 and international table tennis player and now T3’s official coach. With Hewley boasting an impressive background of table tennis success, we are very happy to have him on board, guiding us through our T3 ping pong skills.

Hewley’s love for table tennis began in Guyana at the YMCA club from the age of nine. The club had six table tennis tables; each table represented a level of play, one being for beginners and six for the top national players. It was whilst watching the top players on the sixth table that Hewley knew that’s where he wanted to be. The rest is history, training five to six times a week to work his way to the top and that’s exactly what he did.

Within his first two years of competing at junior level, Hewley won the national under 13’s championships, which led to him being selected for the national junior squad. Competing and training regularly, often at senior level, Hewley began to travel internationally resulting in the transition to the senior squad and proving himself greatly in the men’s singles category, winning multiple Caribbean championship titles.

It was after the Caribbean tournaments in August 2011, that Hewley decided it was time to take his bat in another direction and start giving back to the sport. He returned to the YMCA in Guyana, but this time as a coach with huge success, coaching at three different clubs, one pupil reaching number one in the country and winning eleven national championships.

Today Hewley coaches in the UK on five different table tennis programmes, including a number of one to ones with some famous faces here in London. At T3 we are honoured to have him as our coach and the program is astonishing. Thanks Hewley!