{"id":318609,"date":"2011-03-18T03:11:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T03:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/rwanda-sitting-volleyball-championship-to-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T03:11:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T03:11:18","slug":"rwanda-sitting-volleyball-championship-to-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/rwanda-sitting-volleyball-championship-to-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Sitting Volleyball Championship to Kicks Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50.9810581319\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/218ad26fnewtimes180.jpg\" alt=\"The New Times (Kigali)\" title=\"Visit The New Times (Kigali)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>Ostine Arinaitwe<\/p>\n<p>18 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>THE first phase of this year&#8217;s national Sitball and Sitting volleyball championship is scheduled to start this weekend in Kigali with 12 teams taking part in both the men and women categories.<\/p>\n<p>Teams are grouped in two divisions for sitball\/men, one division for women and one division for sitting volleyball\/men. The system which will be used during this championship is round robin which means that all teams in division or group will play each other.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>According to officials at the National Paralympics Committee, a total of 14 teams will take part in the championship. They include; Gatagara (Huye), Nyanza, Kivu, UNR, THT, Rwamagana, Rutsiro, Rusizi, Musanze, Gicumbi, Ubumwe, Kigali stars, Bugesera and Gicumbi.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase will take place in Kigali, the second in Bugesera, while the third and fourth will take place in Musanze and Rusizi respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the National Paralympics Committee Dominique Bizimana told Times Sport that despite lack of sponsorship from the sports ministry, the championship will go ahead as scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been lobbying for sponsorship from the Ministry of Sports but it looks like we will not get anything,&#8221; Bizimana told this paper. NPC needs frw 10m to successfully run the championship.<\/p>\n<p>Intwari won last year&#8217;s sitball championship, while Kigali stars took the women&#8217;s crown.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103180047.html\" title=\"Rwanda: Sitting Volleyball Championship to Kicks Off\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rwanda: Sitting Volleyball Championship to Kicks Off<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ostine Arinaitwe 18 March 2011 THE first phase of this year&#8217;s national Sitball and Sitting volleyball championship is scheduled to start this weekend in Kigali with 12 teams taking part in both the men and women categories. Teams are grouped in two divisions for sitball\/men, one division for women and one division for sitting volleyball\/men. The system which will be used during this championship is round robin which means that all teams in division or group will play each other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rwanda: Sitting Volleyball Championship to Kicks Off - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/rwanda-sitting-volleyball-championship-to-kicks-off\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rwanda: Sitting Volleyball Championship to Kicks Off - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ostine Arinaitwe 18 March 2011 THE first phase of this year&#039;s national Sitball and Sitting volleyball championship is scheduled to start this weekend in Kigali with 12 teams taking part in both the men and women categories. 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