Air Force Men and Women in Super League VB final

Sri Lanka Air Force Men and Women made their way to the final of the Sri Lanka Volleyball Super League final. This is a significant achievement as this is the first time both men and women have entered a Super League final. The Airmen defeated Sri Lanka Navy, last year’s winner while Sri Lanka Ports [...]

Beach volleyballers compete in Thailand

Sri Lanka Beach Volleyballers leftthe island for Thailand to compete in the 13th Shamila and 3rd Kanom Sri Samarath Asian Championships which will come to an end on April 7. Sixteen countries are expected to participate in this year’s championships. The most experienced beach volleyballers who have competed in major Asian championship for the past [...]

A.K. Bandara elected president

A.K. Bandara and Ajith Ratnayake were elected President and Secretary respectively of the Nationalized Services Volleyball Association at the annual general meeting held on February 28 at the People’s Bank Sports Complex, Colombo 10. Following are the office bearers  President : A.K. Bandara (People’s Bank),  Secretary : Ajith Ratnayaka (People’s Bank),  Dty. President : Susil Ranasinghe (Foreign Employment [...]

Sri Lanka produces best Volleyball picture of year 2011

Sri Lanka has won the award for the best volleyball picture taken in year 2011. The award winning picture was taken by Prasad Rashmika, employed at the Media Unit of Bureau of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare, in an SLVF event, held in Hali-Ela in the Uva Province on the 31st May and 01st June, [...]

Veteran’s volleyball tournament in December

Veterans Volleyball Tournament, organized by Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation, will be held this December. The Tournament is scheduled to be held under four categories. Over 30 female, 40-49 male, 50-59 male, and over 60male are the four categories. The teams that are willing to participate in this tournament, should send their applications to Sri Lanka [...]

Dialog adds power to biggest Volleyball tournament

Sri Lanka's premier annual volleyball tournament, President's Gold Cup Championship will get underway on 20th November at Haslaka, Kandy. With an island wide participation, featuring more than 50,000 players, the tournament will possibly be the largest local sporting event to be held in the country. The zonal level matches will be held on 20th November, [...]

Applications called for President’s Gold Cup volleyball

Applications are called for the President's Gold Cup, volleyball tournament, which is conducted island wide. Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation (SLVBF) is conducting the tournament, and sponsored by Dialog Axiata. As it was in the last year, the tournament will be conducted in three stages. In the first stage, only the players, living in respective areas [...]

Maris Stella clinches Triple Crown

Maris Stella College, Negombo clinched the Triple Crown at the Blue, Gold & Blue Schools Western Province Invitation Schools Volleyball Championship 2011 held on October 22 and 23. The event was powered by Mobil Lubricant Oil and organized jointly by Royal College Colombo and the Royal College Union Volleyball Advisory Committee. The tournament was conducted [...]

Rehabilitated LTTE cadres in Sri Lanka disabled volleyball team

 ‘‘Past is past. Let us march towards unity’’ said a former LTTE cadre, Malarvizhi Paramalingam, who is a member of the Sri Lanka Disabled Volleyball team selected to take part in two international tournaments. Malarvizhi said that at a press conference held at the Olympic house on Thursday. She also stated that she had never [...]

Sri Lanka down India in beach Volleyball

Sri Lanka beat India by 2-0 in the first beach volleyball match of the 2011 South Asian beach games at Hambanthota, on Saturday. Sri Lanka Number 1 team, Mahesh Perera and Wasantha Rathnapala, won the first two rounds by 21/8 and 21/16. (Yohan Bhasura reporting from Hambanthota)  

Dilan elected to AVC Board of Administration

The President of the Sri Lanka Volleyball Federation and Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare, Dilan Perera was unanimously elected to the Board of Administration of the Asian Volleyball Confederation, at the 19th AVC General Assembly held at Chinese Taipei on Thursday. This is considered as a great personal achievement as well as a [...]

Senanayake Central clinches double

Senanayake Central, Madampe clinched a double at the conclusion of the DSI Supersports Schools Volleyball Tournament that concluded at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium on Saturday. Their under-18 boys' team defeated Dammissara MV by three sets to two in the final that was fought out very closely. Both teams were at their best levels and neither [...]

soldiers bring more glory to sri lanka

Sri Lanka’s brave soldiers who are now differently-abled due to the war did proud to the country in a different kind of game. This time they won the bronze medal at the Disabled Volleyball World Cup tournament held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia last month. This is the first time that they participated in this kind [...]

Exciting volleyball finals today

DSI Supersport Schools Volleyball finals in five age categories will be played at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium on August 20. The first match will begin at 8.30 a.m. for the boys’ under-16 event between Davisamara MV and Senanayake MMV. The second match is in the under-18 girls’ event and will be between Anuradhapura MMV and [...]

Three finals in DSI Supersports Schools Volleyball C’ships today

DSI Supersport Schools volleyball championship finals will commence  today at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium, with three finals scheduled to start from 12.30 p.m. The first match to be played is in the under-14 girls’ final between Kumarigama MV and Kandapola MV, Rakwana. The second final is in the under-14 boys between Dammissara MMV and Rajasinghe [...]

Volleyball teams gearing up for Asian Championships

Sri Lanka men's and women's volleyball teams will be takingpart in the forthcoming Asian Volleyball Championships in two different venuesin September. The men’s championship will be held in Tehran, Iran fromSeptember 19 to 29. The women’s championship will be held in Chinese Taipeifrom September 15 to 23. The two pools are going through stringent residentialtraining [...]

Sri Lankan disable spikers win bronze

Sri Lanka beat Slovekia 3-0 to win the 3rd Place of the disable volleyball World Cup Games in Cambolia on Friday. Scores read as (25-14), (25-16) and (25-15).

Mahesh, Wasantha placed fourth

Beach volleyball pair of Mahesh Perera and Wasantha Ratnapala, representing Sri Lanka Defence Services in the World Military Games in Brazil, offered stiff resistance against China in the semi-final but lost narrowly and finished fourth. The World Military Games was concluded at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday. Sri Lankan pair displayed outstanding skills and [...]

Three teams from Dammissara in Volleyball finals

Finalists in the DSI Supersports Schools Volleyball Championship have been found after the completion of the National level stage was completed recently. Dammissara MMV from Nathandiya has entered three teams into the finals. Their girls’ under-12, boys’ under-14 and 18 teams are in the final to be staged this month. Their boys’ under-18 team will [...]

Four spikers for Asian Varsity Beach Volleyball

Four spikers accompanied by a manager will leave Sri Lanka tomorrow, July 14 to participate in the Asian University Beach Volleyball Games to be held in China from July 15 to 20th. All Universities in the Asian region are expected to participate at the champiomships. The four players who have been picked are, Dananjana Bandara [...]
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