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Doru Gheorghe

Doru Georghe is in his sixth season (2021-2022) as head women's coach for Texas Wesleyan Table Tennis. The long-time head coach of the United States Women’s National Team, joined the Texas Wesleyan coaching staff in May of 2016.

In 2018, Georghe was named elected to the United States Table Tennis Hall of Fame.
 
Gheorghe served as the head coach of the USA Table Tennis Women’s National Team since 1998-2016, leading the team in four appearances in the Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012). Since 2008, he has served as Chief Operating Officer and High Performance Coach for USA Table Tennis.  He has been named USA Table Tennis National Coach of the Year four times (1999, 2003, 2007, and 2008). In addition he has led Team USA in five appearances in the Pan Am Games, fourteen World Table Tennis Championships, and five World Cups.
 
From 1990-1997 he was the General Secretary for Romanian Table Tennis and led the Romanian men’s team during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
 
As a player, his career culminated with the Romanian Men’s National team in 1983 having won the Romanian National Championship a remarkable fifteen times. He has competed in four world championships, three European championships and many other international championships.