Thanuja
leads Lanka women’s rugby 7s team
Centre
three quarter Thanuja Weerakkody of Sri Lanka Navy Sports Club will captain the
Sri Lanka women’s sevens rugby team for the HSBC Asian Rugby Football Union
seven a side tournament which will be worked off on September 21 and 22 in
Thailand.
The final
12 member squad was named yesterday following a series of trials conducted
under the supervision of Head Coach Chandrishan Perera and Assistant Coach K.
P. Naranthota at Havelock
Park
In fact former
Chairman National Selection Committee Chandrishan Perera will be coaching the
women’s rugby team for the first time having been involved with the men’s
national sevens team for a short stint from 2005 to 2006.
Sri
Lanka’s best achievement in sevens rugby came in 2005 where they clinched the
Bowl Championship and last year they had the satisfaction of emerging runners
up in the Bowl tournament in India.
The Sri Lanka
Thanuja
Weerakkody (captain – Navy SC), Randhika Kumudumali (Navy SC), A. J. I. P. K.
Dassanayake (Army SC), Sandeepa Sandamali (Navy SC), H. A. N. D. Munasinghe
(Army SC), Rukshani Ariyasena (Army SC), Ayesha Perera (Army SC), Heshala
Karunaratne (Air Force SC), Sanju Wijetilleke (Navy SC), Niranjala Wickremaratne
(Army SC), Tharaka Kaluarachchi (Air Force SC) and Anusha Attanayake (Air Force
SC).
Officials:
Chandrishan Perera (Head coach), K. P. Narantota (assistant coach), Ms.
Niroshani Wijeratne (physiotherapist), Surgeon Captain Ms. R. P. N. N. Wijedoru
(manageress) C.D
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