Danny Seemiller

Daniel Seemiller
Born June 13, 1954
Pittsburgh, PA
Residence South Bend, IN
Nationality United States
Occupation Professional Table Tennis Athlete, Head Coach and Author
Employer South Bend Table Tennis Club
Organization United States Table Tennis Association
Known for Seemiller Grip
Notable work USA Olympic Coach, USA National Team Coach and Author
Style Seemiller Grip (Left Hand)
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.74 m)
Weight 170 lb (77 kg)
Spouse(s) Val Seemiller
Children Daniel Seemiller Jr. and Sarah Seemiller

Danny Seemiller is a former professional table tennis player, United States Olympic head coach and current head coach of the South Bend Table Tennis Club. He has an unorthodox playing style called the Seemiller grip, which he is famous for inventing in the 1970s.

Career

Danny Seemiller began playing table tennis as an early adolescent in the 1960s. By 1972, he was the top player on the U.S. Men's National Team. He has won five United States Men's Singles Championships (1976, 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1983). Seemiller reached #19 in the World Rankings and is considered one of the best table tennis athletes from the United States of all time.[1]

From 1990-1995 he served as President of United States Table Tennis Association (now called USA Table Tennis). He was inducted into the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame in 1995.[1]

In 1996, he moved to New Carlisle, Indiana and became the head coach for the South Bend Table Tennis Club. At South Bend, he has developed top US players Mark Hazinski, Joey Cochran, Jared Lynch, A.J. Brewer, and Dan Seemiller Jr. All of which are former members of the US National Team.[2][3]

Personal life

Seemiller was a dual sport athlete as a teen, playing both table tennis and baseball. Seemiller was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1970s as a shortstop/2nd baseman, but declined their farm league team offer to further pursue his table tennis career. Danny is an author of two books, "Winning Table Tennis" (1996) and "Revelations of a Ping-Pong Champion" (2016).

References

  1. 1 2 USATT Hall of Fame Profiles, http://www.usatt.org/organization/halloffame/dseemiller.html
  2. ↑ South Bend Table Tennis Center | Home
  3. ↑ USATT Ratings, http://www.usatt.org/history/rating/history/index2.asp


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