Swift set to represent Scotland at table tennis championships
A YOUNG table tennis player from the West Mainland has qualified to play for Scotland at a home nations event next year.
Ava Swift will take on England, Ireland and Wales at the British Primary School Championships next April after qualifying for the Scottish team.
And two more Shetlanders are first in line for a place on team Scotland for an event, should someone pull out.
Swift was one of nine Shetlanders competing in the Scottish Primary School Championships in Bathgate at the weekend, where she earned a top four finish.
She and fellow Shetlander Eve Johnson beat last year’s fourth spot winner Chloe Lee to set up a straight shoot-out against each other for the Scotland place, which Swift won by three sets to one.
Peony Li eventually would finish in fifth place after the placing play-offs were played, meaning she is first reserve for the Scotland team and could also be called up if any of the top four cannot compete next April.
Li and Johnson were able to celebrate after finishing runners-up in the girls doubles event, beating their Shetland team-mates Swift and Hanna Sneider 11-8, 11-4 to clinch silver.
In the boys’ event Dylan Ritch won his group comfortably, but lost out to number four seed Boyd Telfer to move into the placing play-offs.
He then hit top form and secured fifth place, which means he is also first reserve for the boys’ Scotland side at the home nations event next year.
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