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National selectors eye talent at junior volleyball competitions

Staff Reporter

Bhanoor (Medak dt.): With the national junior level volley ball competitions slated for January 6 at Nagpur, the national team selectors are looking for good players at the ongoing Inter district Junior volley ball championships at the Bharat Dynamics limited (BDL) sports grounds here. In all 23 boys and 21 girls teams have been talking part here from 21 of this month. The finals would be held on Monday.

Secretary of Medak volley ball association Mohammad Jani who is also the organizing secretary of the event pointed out that Mahabubnagar and Krishna district boys and Nalgonda girls have shown the much needed spark while Medak district lacks behind in stamina and height.

Winning matches

He felt that height makes a big difference when its comes to winning matches. Medak has earlier hosted the State-wide junior championships in Gajwel, Ramsagar and Narsapur.

Boys teams from Visakhapatnam, Prakasam, Khammam, Vizianagaram, Kurnool, West Godavari, Mahabubnagar and Warangal, girls teams from Krishna, Guntur and Adilabad have reached to the knock out stage. The semi finals and finals would be held at BDL sports grounds on Monday afternoon.

The BDL management and the employees unions who have acted as hosts for the event have arranged for the screening of Chak De India on Monday at the indoor auditorium for the entertainment of the participants.

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