The IWRF has just announced the selection of Simon Starr as the Head Table Official for the BT WWRC15 tournament in October. Simon started out as a Table Official in August 2009 at the Trevor Williams Memorial Tournament. Since then he has been involved in each annual Super Series competition and the Nationals. Internationally, he Tabled at the 2011 GB Cup, the London Test Event and Paralympics in 2012 and was fortunate enough to be selected for the World Championships in Denmark in 2014. In addition, he has helped out at a good number of international training matches. At London 2012 he had a Games Maker role as one of the statisticians for the event and over the last 3 years he has assisted new table officials in learning their trade. Simon is also the Director at Nottinghamshire’s CSP, Sport Nottinghamshire and does a great deal to promote the sport as part of his job.
David Pond, GBWR Chief Executive and BT WWRC15 lead said, ‘I am delighted with the appointment. Simon has made an enormous commitment to the game over a number of years and is highly experienced. The BT WWRC15 event will bring together the best teams in the world and will be an amazing spectacle – it will be critical that we also have the very best officials and Simon more than meets that requirement’.
Simon said, ‘I am honoured to have been selected for the position and I am looking forward to building a great team of table officials to support this fantastic event which will be a show case for the sport in this country’.
