Bokaro: W.G. Morgan’s first state-level volley-ball workshop will be held from September 27-29 at Guru Gobind Singh Public School (GGPS) in Chas. Physical education teachers and coaches from more than 50 schools across the state will attend the workshop, said Uma Shankar Singh, principal, Guru Gobind Singh Public School (GGPS).
Mongia Steel is the corporate sponsor of this event. Mongia Steel Limited Chairperson Dr Gunwant Singh will be the chief guest at the event while GGPS President Tarsem Singh will be the guest of honor. Jaideep Sarkar, secretary of the Jharkhand State Volleyball Association (JSVA) said that the workshop would be the first of its kind in Jharkhand, providing sports persons with basic and important skills and abilities
History
Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It was designed as an indoor sport for businessmen who found the new game of basketball too vigorous. Morgan called the sport “mintonette,” until a professor from Springfield College in Massachusetts noted the volleying nature of play and proposed the name of “volleyball.” The original rules were written by Morgan and printed in the first edition of the Official Handbook of the Athletic League of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of North America (1897). The game proved to have wide appeal in schools, playgrounds, the armed forces, and other organizations.
