Kiishi's Table Tennis Dream

Kiishi Adekola was born at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on the 4th of September 2011. She was introduced to table tennis by her dad in 2019 and started playing at the Aberdeen Sports Village at age 8. The Coaches spotted Kiishi’s talent and were keen to nurture it.

Over the years, Kiishi has won multiple competitions, both locally and nationally. In the recently completed Scottish Primary Schools Championships in February, 2024, “Kiishi Adekola retained the Girl’s Singles with a dominant performance” and is set to represent Scotland at the Primary Schools International Championships which is taking place in Jersey from 5th to 7th of April 2024.

According to Max Singer Head Coach at Aberdeen Sports Village. " Kiishi is the most exciting female player I have come across in my 36 years of coaching she undoubtedly will go on to much bigger things in the future.

Kiishi takes part in various competitions throughout the year and has been given the rare opportunity to be the first Aberdeen junior player to join the Great Britain Table Tennis Training Programme. This gives her access to world class training facilities and coaching team.

This would require her to travel across the UK (mostly England) each month for training.

This aligns with Kiishi’s dream of continued development of her table tennis talent and long term goal of representing Great Britain at the Olympics. We would love to make her dream come true and we would love you to join us in this journey.

This stage of the journey would require a lot more financial investment and we are looking to raise funds to help cushion some of the costs of trainings, competitions and travelling.

We will greatly appreciate your support in helping Kiishi achieve her dream of representing Great Britain at the Olympics one day.

Some of the tournaments she's taken part in are listed below;

Competitions

• Scottish Primary School Championships/ Dundee Ward Road gym Primary schools 28/11/2021 Final

o No. 1 doubles

• Scottish Primary School Championships/ Dundee Ward Road gym Primary schools 28/11/2021

o Final Singles runner up

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• Scottish Secondary and Primary School championships

o SINGLES Primary Schools 04/02/2023 Final 1st

o DOUBLES Primary Schools 04/02/2023 final 1st

• Scottish National Championship Under 13 & Under 15 05/03/2023 Final

o 1st under 13

o 2nd under 15

• Interleague (Women’s)

o Perth Under 13 19/03/2023 final 1st place

• Primary Schools International Championships/ Northampton Pry Schools 31st Mar – 2nd April 2023

o Last 16 singles 3rd place in team event

• British Primary Schools/Guernsey Pry Schools April 8th – 10th 2022

o Last 16 singles.

o 2nd in team events

• ADTTA North Confined Watt Cup 29/04/2023 Final

o 2nd

• Secondary School International Championships/ Galway, Ireland Under 14 & Under 16 23rd – 25th June 2023

o 2nd place plate in under 14.

o 5th in Under 16

o 2nd place plate in under 14.

• Perth Grand Prix Under 13 08/10/2023

o Final 1st place

• Under 13 and Under 19 Assessment/ Bathgate

o Under 13 & 19 17/09/2023 Final & semi-final

o 1st under 13

o 4th under 19

• North of Scotland Open

o Under 15 & Under 19 06/01/2024 Under 15 – final

o Under 19 –Semi final 2nd place

• Scottish Primary Schools Championships

o Singles Primary Schools 03/02/2024 Final - 1st

o Doubles Primary Schools 03/02/2024 Final - 1st