Five eves selected for hockey world league
Five Odisha women hockey players are selected in 18-member senior Indian women's team for the FIH Hockey World league Round 3 (Semi-Finals) to be played at Rotterdam from June 13-23.
Deep Grace Ekka, Namita Tappo, Anupa Barla, Punam Barla and Nilima Minz are the Odisha players. The team will play their opening match against New Zealand on June 13 followed by Belgium (14th) and Germany (16th). Midfielder Ritu Rani will lead the team and Chanchan Devi has been named as Ritu's deputy for the tournament.
The Indian team has qualified for this competition in February this year by winning the World league Round 2 tournament in Delhi. The FIH World league is a qualification tournament for the 2014 Women's World Cup. India are placed in Pool B along with New Zealand, Germany and Belgium while hosts The Netherlands, Korea,
Japan and Chile are placed in Pool A.
Squad: Goalkeepers: Savita, Rajni Etimarpu, Defenders: Deep Grace Ekka, Kirandeep Kaur, Namita Toppo, Sushila Chanu, Sunita lakra, Manjeet Kaur, Midfielders: Ritu Rani, Chanchan Devi, Navjot Kaur, Vandana Katariya, lily Chanu, Forwards: Anupa Barla, Poonam Barla, Rani, Roselin Dung Dung, Nilima Minz, Ritusha Arya.
Basketball summer camp concludes
Bhubaneswar: In a motive to create interest for sports among the young kids of the city, the sports department coach Rajndra Pani organised a-24-days Basketball Summer Coaching Camp, which concluded at Kalinga Stadium here on Thursday.
Altogether 128 participants including 31 girls in between the age group of 8-16 years were learned the fundamentals of basketball (stance, ball holding,joggling,dribbling, passing, shooting, individual defense stance and rebounding) by the emanate coaches Rajendra Pani, Rajesh Singh and S Samantary. This camp is a regular feature since 2003. It is not easy to equip players in three weeks camp but the interest for basketball can be implanted in the mind. The trainees were imparted the fundamentals of basketball in this camp, added Pani.
The campers are from 20 different schools of the city. Though they belongs to different schools but the sports activity hold them as one team. All the campers received participation certificate on the closing day. Sports department assistant director Akhila Bihari Das distributed the certificate in presence of coach Rupa Nita Panda as the chief guest of the closing ceremony.