Tamil Eelam Challenge Cup Volleyball – 2014 Results
Canadian Tamil Youth Alliance’s Athletics Council successfully held its first annual Tamileelam Challenge Cup Volleyball Tournament. This tournament took place Saturday March 29th at Cederbrae Collegiate Institute. The event was coordinated by CTYA with full support from its members, who acknowledged the importance of such an event from the very beginning and assisted in all the phases of the event.
CTYA would like to congratulate and recognize all the participating teams. All 10 teams played with great team spirit and sportsmanship and made the 1st Annual Tamileelam Challenge Cup Volleyball tournament an event to remember. This year’s finals showcased a great match between Scarborough and Markham from the Canadian Tamil Volleyball League. After an extremely tight game, Scarborough prevailed as the winners while the runners up were Markham.
Awards for best players were presented; each one being representative of Tamil Eelam’s National symbols: Vaahai being the national Tree; Siruththai being the national animal; Karthigai poo being the national flower and Chenbagam being the national bird.
The Most Valuable Player award was presented to Sinthujan Nanthakumar from Scarborough. The Vaahai award was presented to the best setter of the tournament, Hellenic Vincent De Paul from Markham. The Chenbagam award was presented to the best defence of the tournament, Kobu Kunaratnam from Scarborough. The Karthigai poo award was presented to the team with the best sportsmanship which was Eelam Squad. Finally the Siruthai was presented to Sinthujan Nanthankumar from Scarborough for being the best striker of the series.
programs. The aim of this council is to educate through athletics, promote outstanding sportsmanship and build team spirit.
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