On Tuesday members of Uttarakhand Volleyball Association released the logo of 40th Junior National Volleyball Championship for boys and girls, which is being organised for the first time in Uttarakhand and also announced the State team for Senior National Volleyball Championship.
Championship coordinator Sewa Singh Matharu said that the state will be organising the Junior National Volleyball Championship for the first time with more than 1,200 players constituting 28 teams from all over India slated to participate in the championship which will be held from from January 8 to January 14, 2014. Matharu said that the preparation for the competition has been started and six courts- two for boys, two for girls and two for practice, have been made.
He said, “We also wanted to organise senior volleyball championship but due to lack of indoor volleyball courts in the state it was not possible as senior national championship is only conducted on indoor courts."
The organising committee for the championship includes Dehradun District Magistrate BVRC Purushottam, General Manager of ONGC Dr RK Singh, Arun Kumar Sood, Sunil Kumar Dang, Kamlesh Kala, Deepti Rawat and Matharu among others.
He also said that the Senior National Volleyball Championship will start from December 21 to December 29 in Moradabad, UP. The Uttarakhand team will include Y Subwara, Mandeep Singh, Navjeet Singh, Rahul SA, Mukesh Kumar, Gurchand Singh, lalit Kumar, Sukhjinder Singh, Ranjeet Singh, Vinod Negi, Vinay Vishvakarma, Sonic Salar, Pushkar Joshi and Manoj.