Mega Volley Ball Championship for School Boys and Girls

Over two hundred teams took part in the recently held XXV Soundarya Cup for Smt Yeshodhamma Memorial Trophy Volley Ball Championship for School Boys and Girls   (under 14 years and 17 years ) under the auspices of Karnataka Volley Ball Association (R) and Bangalore City District Volley Ball Association (R) organised by the Spikers Youth Sports Club, Jayanagar. This was their XXV consecutive championship event.  
The event is a big opportunity to tap young talented volleyball players. National level players of yester years have been coopted to encourage students to take up volleyball as a serious sport.
The  club  also  proposes to educate  the  selected  trainees  in the technical  aspects  of the game as  well  as  offer specialized  coaching. 
The  club started  this event way back in 1984  with  only  3  teams  in high  school  girls  section  and  later  they  conducted  women’s  tournament on  state  level  basis  along  with  high  school  girls  tournament.  In  1986  they  started  the  championship  for  boys  and  girls  under  14  years  and  under17  years at  Corporation  playground, Jayanagar.
As the club grew in prominence, the number of teams taking part in their events also grew, necessitating the shifting of the event to the  present  Jayanagar  Corporation  Stadium. 
Soundarya  Arts  Propietor  Sri  T.M.Gowda  sponsored the  winner’s  rolling  trophy  of  Soundarya  Cup.  The Take away  trophy  for  all  the  16  teams  was  sponsored by  Sri  K. Nanda  Kumar,  General Secretary, Karnataka  Volley  Ball  Association  and  Joint  Secretary, Volley  Ball  Federation  of  India and  Chairman,  Organising  Committee  of  this  championship  in  fond  memory  of  his  mother  Smt  Yeshodamma. Now the  championship  is  known  as  Soundarya  Cup  for Yeshodamma  Memorial.          
 
In   high school boys section 108   were divided into 4 pools. The  teams played  in  a  league  round   and  one  team  from  each  pool  emerged  to  play  super  league  and  1st  to  4th  position  were  declared  on  the basis of their  performance  in  the  super  league  matches.  
In  high School   girls  and  higher  primary  boys  36  teams  each  participated  and   in  higher  primary girls  16  teams  participated  who  played  league  matches  in  their  pool and  one  team  in  each  pool  advanced  to  the  super  league  and  1 to  4  position  were  decided  in  their  performance. 
This  championship  was  declared  open  by  Sri  Vijaya  Kumar  MLA, Jayanagar  and  inaugurated  by  Sri  K.  Govindaraj  President  Karnataka  Olympic  Association.  the  Guests Of  Honour  were Sri  N. Nagaraju,  Ex  Councillor  BBMP  and  Member  BDA.,  Chief Patron Organizing Committee of this Championship. Sri Somashekar Ex- Councillor BBMP. Chennagiri, General secretary  BJP, Kishore Joseph, Publisher, This Week Bangalore and  Vice Chairman Organizing Committee Sri Chennagiri, General Secretary BJP., Sri T M Gowda Patron Organizing Committee and Sri A Umesh Organizing Seretary presided.
Free food and snacks were served to all the Players, Managers and Officials on all the three days. In High School And Primary Schools, Boys and Girls section Prizes were awarded to the Winners, Runners, First Runner up and Second Runner up with Rolling  Cups and Take Away Trophies and Individual Trophies. Sports Kit and  Medals were also awarded to them. Best Players of the Tournament were awarded with Track Suits in all categories. 
In High School Boys Winners were Shantiniketan High School, Mico Layout, Carmel Convent,  Padmanabha Nagar were Runners up, A V Education Society J P Nagar were I Runner up and Shntiniketan, Bilek hally were II Runner up. 
In High School  Girls under 17 years Stella Marys Malleshwaram Were Winners, Carmel Convent, Jayanagar were Runners up, R. V. Jayanagar were I Runners up, Mahilla Seva Samaja, BAsavanagudi, were II Runners up. 
In Higher Primary School  Boys Under 14 years Shantinikean were Winners, A V Education Society J P Nagar, Runners up, St. Joseph’s Briand Square, Chamarajpet were I Runners up and Kumarans Children Home, T R Nagar were II Runners up. 

In Higher Primary School  Girls under 14years Mahilla Seva Samaja, Basavanagudi, Winners, Carmel Convent, Jayanagar, Runners up, I  Runners up were  Sree Rama Vidyalaya Jayanagar and II Runners up were Stella Marys, Malleswaram. 
Individual Prizes were awarded to the best Players in all the age groups for both Boys and Girls. 
At the Valedictory address K Chandrashekar,  Asst. Commissioner of Police Traffic West Zone and T Ramappa Circle Inspector of  Police K G Halli, distributed the prizes. T M Gowda and Sri Indudhar were present on the occasion. 
Sports Loving philanthropists M  Krishnappa., Hon’ble MLA Bangalore South Constituency, Sri Mallikarjun Jayanagar, Sangathi Venkatesh, Eskimos, J Cubez, J M  Enterprises helped in organizing this tournament .
Sri N Nagaraju, Ex  Councilor  BBMP  and  Member  BDA.,  Chief Patron Organizing Committee donated the individual prizes (Sports Kits) . He has been doing this for the past 8 years. T Shirts and caps were sponsored by Eskimos, J Cubez, J M  Enterprises for Team Managers, Team coaches, Officials, P T Teachers and Guests.  
The entire preliminary preparations of the above championship was monitored by Chief Mentor   Sri B N Vijaya Kumar, MLA Jayanagar, Chief Patron SRI N Nagaraju Ex - Councilor  BBMP  and  Member  BDA.,  and Sri K Nanda Kumar Chairman Organizing Committee personally.   Coordinated by Sri A Umesh.