The team of the Volga region Academy of sports and tourism in table tennis took the second place in the championship of the Russian student Union in table tennis and made its way to the final of the summer Universiade, which will be held in Belgorod from 20 to 24 June.
The winners of the championship were determined in Ulyanovsk by the results of the second stage of the tournament. The women's team of the Academy took the third place, men's – the second. And the sum of the performances in the two stages became the silver medalists of the championship in the season 2017/18.  
"Academician" Vladislav Samsonov at the end of the season became the winner of the championship in the individual competition and in the men's doubles (together with Danila Travin), in addition, in the asset of the athlete third place – in doubles mixed category (in tandem with Ekaterina Okhotnikova).