Nash Jacolo, is only 11 years old but already the fastest rising young star athlete in this high-speed ballgame. Nash hopes to become a member of the Philippine Olympic team in London in 2012. It will be a history in the making if they win a title. In the recently concluded Philippine Sports Fest held in Leyte, where thousands of student athletes competed for excellence in many sports categories, Nash's team became overall champion, a feat that made Nash an instant sensation as well as a role model in school where table tennis now has gained quite a following.

Becoming a champion takes training, training, training, and more training to the limits a young body can take. It also helps that Nash's father, Rodney is an afficionado passing on naturally good genes, experience and a vast repertoire of fantastic moves, footwork, perfect eye-hand coordination. Rodney admits to being a stage father often seen accompanying his son to many tournaments that has helped hone Nash's constantly improving skills.

Nash is a natural athlete. He moves with both grace and precision, a wonderful moving body to watch. Table Tennis is a tremendous game of speed, high energy and coordination, played in a contained and elevated space where the athlete must move with this physical constraints with precision, leaving little room for errors, leaving little room for theater, becoming an acrobat unlike its near cousin, lawn tennis.

But this is the sport for everyone and the popularity of the game has grown since the "Pingpong Diplomacy" between China and the U.S. in the 1970's.

Good luck and more power to you Nash!