Silver and Bronze Medals in The Students Championship on Volleyball

UNWE won silver and bronze medals in the National Students Championship on Volleyball. The girls with their coach Ralitsa Arsova were ranked at the second place after they were defeated by the National Sports Academy by the score 0:3. It was their only defeat in the championship. They had 7 victories in their group and only one lost game. In the group for the final ranking they also won all the three games without a lost one. In the semi-final competitions they played a very strong match against the team of the University of Shumen and won by the score 3:2 and 15:12 during the tie-break.

Our girls with their coach

The boys of Petar Ivanov were defeated by the team of the University of Ruse in the semi-final competition by the score 2:3 and 10:15 during the tie-break. However, in the match for the third place they won a victory over the University of Sofia by the score 3:0.

They completed by three victories from three matches in their group for the final ranking. Before that in Sofia they left at the second place by 4 victories and 2 losses.

Champion in the men`s group became the National Sports Academy by the score 3:0 in the match against the University of Ruse.

Violina Nikolova and her colleague Ivan Krachev from the National Sports Academy were distinguished as the best attackers among women and men. Ralitsa Bankova from the National Sports Academy and Georgy Mishkov from the UNWE were awarded as the best setters. It turned out that the most difficult task for the volleyball figures participating in the secret vote was to be determined the winners of the individual prize for the most useful player. After the end of the last two clashes the prizes were given to Martina Stancheva from the UNWE and Miroslav Bratanov from the National Sports Academy.