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School Project reaches more and more pupils across Croatia

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Article Fri, Dec 2 2022

The CEV School Project ‘Play Volleyball – Grow with it’ continues to inspire children from across Croatia to play the game.

Regional coordinators of the project Ivan Hrg and Vladimir Grudenić paid a visit to the Virovitica-Podravina County, which ended with a training session organised for the students attending the Catholic elementary school in Virovitica, joined by fourth graders and their PE teacher, Krešimir Pipić.

Another school in the Virovitica-Podravina County to host School Project activities in November was Eugen Kumičić Elementary School from Slatina. Teachers Nataša Medvedović and Borivoje Kocić were the local hosts and 40 students enjoyed discovering the basics of Volleyball with the help of Mr Grudenić and Mr Hrg.

The CEV School Project has reached the eastern section of Croatia as well. On November 22, 2022, activities took place at Bilje elementary school with participation of 18 girls. The Volleyball class lasted for some 90 minutes, thus providing an ideal platform to introduce Volleyball to the local children through a variety of fun games and exercises.

On November 23, this sort of roadshow stopped at the elementary school Ivana Brlić Mažuranić in Ogulin. The school, which participates in many European programmes, has welcomed the CEV School Project as well. Professor Katarina Maganić actively participates in the women’s volleyball club Ogulin, so balls and net bands provided by the Croatian Volleyball Federation and the CEV will help a great deal. Sixth and seventh grade students gathered for this action. In addition to a few introductory words about the project, the organisers delivered a series of exercises so that the kids would have a better understanding of the Volleyball game. Project Manager Zeljko Nojić and former national team members Tomislav Čošković and Matija Sabljak did not only help run the Volleyball classes but shared interesting memories and experiences from their illustrious careers as well.

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