Angelita Rosal

Angelita Rosal began playing table tennis at the age of nine or ten years old.[1] She attended her first United States Olympic Training Center at age eleven in 1967 and quickly showed her match-winning ability.[2] In 1968, she won the national Under-Thirteen championship, following up the following year winning the Under-Fifteen crown.[3] She continued to be successful, competing in ten USA Table Tennis National titles over her career.[1] She was particularly successful in doubles, winning the title at the U.S. National Table Tennis Champions with He-ja Lee no less than three times, in 1978, 1979 and 1980, and once with Jin Na in 1982.[2]

• 1973 First female selected to the Indian Athletic Hall of Fame.[4]
• 1996 Inducted into the United States of America Table Tennis Hall of Fame.[5]

Rosal was born to a Filipino father and Sioux mother, one of seven children.[5] Two of her siblings, Chris and Monica, were also good table tennis players.[2] The family lived on the Fort Totten, North Dakota, but moved to San Diego before she was eleven.[5] In 1975, she developed typhoid while in Kolkata and also had a religious conversion.[2] She married Tom Sistruck and had her first child, Succo Li, in 1977, and then, in 1985, she married Stellan Bengtsson with whom she has twin sons, Chris and Sam.[2] She also has two grandchildren, Miles and Monico.[1]