Table tennis – Prenational. With Etoile d’Alençon, Guillaume Cabin takes third place

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Behind Temitayo Aremu, Fabrice Vinclair and Jérémy Collet, Guillaume Cabin was, last season, the fourth musketeer in the flagship team hierarchy of the Étoile Alençonnaise.

With the departure of No. 1, the 39 year old table tennis player moved into third position to evolve in the regional championship the most exclusive, in which the team from Alençon (Orne) is currently at the top of its group with four successes in as many matches.

“Capable of stringing together performances”

This change in grade allowed Guillaume Cabin to raise his level of play even further, and the experience to gain in consistency. Racket in hand, “he is capable of stringing together performances”, underlines Célien Palot, the Ornais coach who also replaces the person concerned as the fourth player of the flag team.

Outside of the gymnasiums, he is a Principal Education Advisor (CPE) at Honoré-de-Balzac collegein Alençon, after having held the same position for eight years at the Alain high school. A position that requires patience and teaching, two qualities that we find in this bulimic of the little white ball when he battles around the table.

On the land of… David Douillet!

This father of two grew up in the upper Normandy countryside, “in Seine-Maritime, between Rouen, Dieppe, Neufchâtel-en-Bray and Beaumont-le-Hareng. »

His first racquet hits were at the age of 7, in La Crique, “the birthplace of David Douillet”, smiles the table tennis player.

“It’s a village of 200 inhabitants, but a multiple French champion club in the youth categories thanks to the school teacher who trained us every afternoon after lunch. »

Today, and for ten years, he has defended the colors of the Star.

Sports studies

Guillaume Cabin first thought of making sport his profession. After the baccalaureate, he moved towards the Sciences and techniques of physical and sporting activities (Staps) sector in Rouen where he obtained a Master’s degree.

“Salesman, receptionist, market gardener, educator, mass distribution manager…” He then took on different jobs and took the CPE exam “by chance, because a former Stapsien also took it”.

Without being the highest ranked of the Star, Guillaume Cabin is not the least keen nor the least motivated. His passion for ping undeniably serves his team, his club and, more broadly, his sport.

Next meeting: Étoile Alençon – Saint-Germain-du-Corbéis, Saturday November 16, at the Salle de l’Étoile.

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