Beach Volleyball Body Targets Olympics Ticket

The Chairman, Beach Volleyball Commission, Nigeria Volleyball Federation (NVBF), Musa Nimrod yesterday  said  that the commission’s target in 2015 was to qualify for the 2016 Olympics Games.
Nimrod told newsmen in Abuja that the commission recorded many achievements in 2014 and would improve on the performance to get an Olympics ticket.
“We achieved a lot in beach volleyball in the outgoing year, because we participated and did well in all the championships we qualified for.
“We qualified and went for the under-17, under-19 and under-21 championships and we did very well in all.
“Beach volleyball also qualified for the Youth Olympics Games (YOG), although Nigeria later did not participate in the Games due to the Ebola virus crisis.
“But we hope to leverage on all these achievements in 2015 by picking a ticket to the 2016 Olympics Games in Rio, Brazil.
“That will be our main target for 2015 and we are already working towards that, because we now have players in all categories who can give us what we want,” he said.
Nimrod said the commission would also focus on participating in and winning the Continental Cup in 2015.
“Apart from getting the Rio Olympics ticket, we are also focused on qualifying for the Continental Cup which we hope to win after qualification.
“So, we are envisaging a busy but fruitful year and we hope to achieve more than we did in 2014,” the beach volleyball commission chairman said.