Governor of Baja California visits Mexican Team

TIJUANA, Mexico, July 3, 2010 – The Governor of Baja California José Guadalupe Osuna Millán paid a visit to the High Development Center where he offered his support to the National Women’s Junior Team which is training hard in preparation for the NORCECA U-20 Continental Championship.

The event starts next Monday and the Mexican Team will be battling for one of the tickets available to next year’s FIVB World Championship.

The executive chief of the state arrived in the High Development Center where he was received by the General Director of the Sport and Physical Education Institute of Baja California, Saul Castro Verdugo, who introduced him with the players from the different states of the country.

Some of them already have been concentrated in previous occasions while training for international competitions and training camps for tournaments in foreign countries like the Youth World Tournament in Turkey 2009, the Junior World Championship held the same year in Mexicali and the Qualifying Tournament toward the Youth Olympic Games and the Turkey World Championship held recently in Guatemala.

“My congratulations and I wish you the best of luck, hoping you can get one of the tickets to the world championship in this competition we are going to have in Tijuana”, said the Governor, who also was available for a photo session with the Mexican team.

The players took part in the session held in the central plaza of CAR and later they went back to training and some scrimmage matches against some of the teams already here to participate in the competition scheduled to start next Monday.