Sally Moyland Archives

Sally Moyland World Youth 2021 trip report

February 1, 2022

(By Sally Moyland) Hello, I’m back at it… November 29th was the day we left Houston for Porto, Portugal. However, we did have to transfer at Frankfurt. Our flight to Frankfurt had a 30-40 minute delay. This made the already very short transfer time – 1h – even tighter. We would only have 20 minutes […]

Sally Moyland’s 2021 US Open trip report

January 31, 2022

(By Sally Moyland) Just a little over ten days after my return from Portugal, I was going on to tackle another tournament – the US Open that was held in Las Vegas. I’ve never gotten to the bottom of why it’s been Las Vegas each year, but I guess it’s a thing. I do sincerely […]

Sally’s Houston/World Championship report

January 19, 2022

(By Sally Moyland) If you’ve been reading my articles, you would know that I just finished the Pan American Youth Championships in September, 2021 at Santo Domingo. Since the USA team made it, I had a chance to go to Portugal and play the World Youth Championships. At around a month to go, all the […]

Sally Moyland – 2021 PanAm Youth Championship

October 7, 2021

(By Sally Moyland) It’s been some time since I’ve competed in an international tournament. The Pan American is regional in scope, and it was good to see new players from these other countries. Competing in the Dominican Republic was pretty cool as I got to go out and for the first time participate as a […]

Rachel Yang Interview

September 22, 2021

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It’s been a long time since my last Nationals

July 26, 2021

(By Sally Moyland) This time, the event wasn’t held at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Instead, the tournament was held for the first time at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. There were around fifty tables, all with red non-slip matting. Along with the new location, there was a new sponsor providing tables and score-keeping equipment […]

Sally Moyland trip at U15 and U19 US team trials

June 22, 2021

(By Sally Moyland) Since there was a severe pandemic outburst in Taiwan, I came back to the USA and managed to compete in the U15/U19 team trials. My flight back stateside was a few weeks before the competition. This tournament was held at ICC, which was in Milpitas, CA. It was close to home for […]

Sally’s U19 Taiwan Team Qualifications

February 8, 2021

(By Sally Moyland) Under nineteen is a whole new category in the table tennis world. The main change was splitting the under eighteen qualifications into under seventeen and under nineteen tournaments. The new rule was implemented this year, and we just had the first run of this tournament in Taiwan. The level of competition in […]

Sally Moyland – Taiwan Adult National Trip Report

January 21, 2021

(By Sally Moyland) This was my last competition in the year of 2020. It was the Taiwan National Adult’s Team Qualification. To be able to participate in this tournament, you must have top results in other high-level competitions. If you didn’t have any good results in other tournaments, you could still get recommended if you […]

Sally Moyland – Taiwan Cadet Trip Report

October 21, 2020

(By Sally Moyland) The Taiwan cadet national team qualification tournament has been my next goal since I made the mini-cadet team back in 2019. The tournament was located in Tainan in the south of Taiwan and lasted for four days. My mom drove us down south for three and a half hours to get there. […]