Geum II Choi & Jennifer
 

Coaching by appointment:
Jennifer (518) 429-3936 achengchoi@nycap.rr.com
 

A native of South Korea, Mr. Choi has devoted much of his life to table tennis.
Beginning serious instruction in middle school, his talent for the sport quickly
became evident and by the time he reached high school he was already
competing on a high level nationally and internationally. From 1967-72 he was
the Korean Junior Champion. In 1971 and 1972 he was the Asian Singles
Champion and also was a member of the Doubles Championship team. At the
age of sixteen he was selected as the youngest player for the South Korean
national team. He won the Men's Korean National Championship in 1974-75.
Also during these years he played in the '74 Asian Olympic Games, the '75 U.S.
Open where he defeated Dan Seemiller, current U.S. Men's Olympic Table
Tennis Team coach, as well as the '75 Canadian Open where he finished 3rd.
During the next few years Mr. Choi coached at the high school and university
levels in South Korea. In 1982 he was named coach of the Libya (Africa) National
Team.

After a successful second career in the Banking industry in South Korea,
Mr. Choi in partnership with his wife Jennifer ( a former member of the Korean
Junior National Table Tennis Team), established a new table tennis club in
Seoul, South Korea in 2001. Devoted to recreation, fitness and amateur athletic
competition, the club grew in three years to the largest club in Korea with a
membership of over 300 from ages eight to eighty.

In the Spring of 2004, Mr. &
Mrs. Choi decided to join their daughters and other members of their family in
the U.S., and moved to the Capital Region of New York State. Already the Chois
have begun an after school table tennis program at Our Saviours Lutheran
School in Colonie, N.Y. and have begun coaching the Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI), Table Tennis Team, a member of the National Collegiate Table
Tennis Association Upstate NY and Ontario Division and League.

The Chois
proudly note that at the Olympics in Athens last year, the men's Singles Gold
Medal in table tennis was won by a South Korean.