The new year began brightly, dynamically and truly sportily at KhAI.
Tournament «The Rector's Winter Cup is gathering the best girls' teams for the second year in a row and gives a tense fight to the final siren.
This year, five teams participated in the tournament:
- KZ «Katerynivsky Lyceum» of the Sakhnovshchyna Settlement Council,
- KZ KDYUSSH–2 KHAI,
- KZ MK DYUSSH–7 «Record»,
- KZ KDYUSSH–2 «Kharkiv City»,
- KZ KDYUSSH–13 KhAI.
All teams showed character, technique and true team spirit. Each match was filled with struggle and emotions — the tournament turned out to be really interesting and rich.
The team from Sakhnovshchina deserves special applause, which, despite the difficult weather conditions, came to Kharkiv and showed a beautiful, technical and meaningful game.
The culmination of the «Rector's Winter Cup was the final, in which two teams of the same club» KhAI met. Training partners and friends from the club met in a fierce struggle, where the fate of the victory was decided by a few points. Such a final — is a clear evidence of the high level of training and development of basketball at KhAI.
According to the results of the tournament, the silver awards were won by the team of KZ KDYUSSH–13 KhAI –, coach Oleg CHEK, and the gold medals and the Rector's Cup were won by the team of KZ KDYUSSH–2 KhAI, coached by Oksana KIRSANOVA-STARON.
And last night, the renovated exhibition hall of the university shone with lights, welcoming the young stars of the KhAI basketball club.
The main prize from the hands of the acting rector of KhAI Oleksiy LYTVYNOV was awarded to the Children's and Youth Sports School № 2 of the city of Kharkiv, which is a component of the structure of the basketball club «KhAI». Team coach — Oksana KIRSANOVA-STARON.
This victory was preceded by a fierce final battle.
And here are — applause, sincere congratulations and a cup in the hands of the winners.
