Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award
The Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award is an award given by the American Table Tennis Association to people who have made an outstanding contribution to table tennis in America for a lifetime (see Lifetime Achievement Award ). It is awarded once a year by the American Hall of Fame Committee for Table Tennis (USATT Hall of Fame Committee).
This award was launched on December 16, 1999. It is named after Mark Matthews alias Marcus Schussheim (* August 4, 1912; † 2014), who was one of the leading American table tennis players in the 1920s and 1930s.
| year | Dear person |
|---|---|
| 1999 | Bobby Gusikoff |
| 2000 | Sol ship |
| 2001 | Jimmy McClure |
| 2002 | Dick Miles |
| 2003 | Marty Reisman |
| 2004 | J. Rufford Harrison |
| 2005 | Leah Neuberger and Thelma Thall-Sommer |
| 2006 | Tim Boggan |
| 2007 | George Braithwaite |
| 2008 | Danny Seemiller |
| 2009 | Houshang Bozorgzadeh |
| 2010 | Fred Danner |
| 2011 | Times Anderson |
| 2012 | Dick Evans |
| 2013 | Yvonne Kronlage |
| 2014 | Donna Sakai |
| 2015 | Si Wasserman |
Individual evidence
- ↑ About the Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award (accessed April 6, 2016)
- ↑ a b Player Profiles - Courtesy of USATT Historian Tim Boggan (accessed April 6, 2016)
- ↑ Article about Marcus Schussheim (accessed April 6, 2016)
- ↑ SCI -News No. 97, September 2014, page 10 Online (accessed on April 6, 2016)
- ↑ Marcus Schussheim Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com