Intra-Cup Volleyball tournament among 29 Nepali teams in US

New York: A volleyball tournament of Nepali-speaking communities is being inaugurated today at Columbus city of Ohio State America.

Teams of men and women players from nine states of the USA would participate in the two-day competition to begin on October 15. Intra National Welfare and Support Foundation is organising the tournament.

This is the biggest volleyball tournament among Nepali-speaking communities in the US where 29 teams of men and women players have been participating, Dipesh Pradhan, who is coordinating the volleyball tournament on the behalf of the foundation.

Nepali-Speaking youths from New York, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Texas, Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania are participating in the competition. The winning team under the men’s category would get 8,500 US dollars and 6,500 US dollars to the runner-up team.

Similarly, the winning team under the women’s category would receive 3,500 US dollars and 2,500 US dollars to the runner-up team.

Foundation President Dilli Adhikari and Representative of Ohio State, Mark Johnson would jointly inaugurate the competition.

A total of 21 team of men and eight team of women are competing in the tournament that is going to be inaugurated at 9:00 am Eastern America time and 5:00 pm Nepali time.