 But I knew this was something I really wanted. For us to come together at one central place and start doing something together, I thought it would be really important and really cool. I really just started recruiting people and finding people that not only were interested or like good players, but were passionate and I trusted and I cared about it. Before we even started I was a career in the community that really wanted to come together and see something through. My name is Vishalva Jake-Mar and I'm the president of Club Table Tennis at the University of Vermont. There are kids who email me saying, hey I have no table tennis experience, can I still come and play? And I say, of course you can. The whole point is for you to come explore something and find out that you either really like it or you don't and that's totally fine, that's what the club is there for. You're not supposed to be thinking about, oh I have this meeting at this time. And sometimes it has to be that way and I totally understand that. Sometimes we do things that we don't really want to do. That's one thing I never want table tennis to be. There's seven to ten people who come every meeting. Those are the most amazing people I've met this year. Each one is completely different than the next and by week two all of us were joking around and having fun. When you hear the ball start hitting that table and people start, you know, staring around, watching and someone hit the shot, everyone goes insane. That's not just because we like table tennis. That's because we care about who we are and what we mean to each other. I think that's so powerful. Clubs are meant for you to express yourself and find yourself and it's supposed to be way bigger than what you're actually doing. It's supposed to be about each other, who you find, what you do. It can be simple. We can just be friends. That's more than enough.