In April, the sports teams of the Penza State University managed to win several medals of different advantages in basketball, volleyball, football, aesthetic gymnastics and table tennis.
The victory of basketball players in the regional Universiade and the results of other PSU teams
In April, the sports teams of the Penza State University managed to win several medals of different advantages in basketball, volleyball, mini-football, aesthetic gymnastics and table tennis.
Basketball
On April 12–14, a basketball tournament was held at the Yunost SC at the Universiade of the Universities of the Penza Region 2020/2021 of the academic year. The male national teams of PSU won the competition, girls from PSU took 3rd place.
The basketball players of the Penza State University won all the matches of the tournament: with the Penza branch of the Military Academy of Material and Technical Support. Army General A.V. Khruleva of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (PAI) – 100: 61; with Penza State Agrarian Universities (PGAU) – 100: 17; with Penza State Technological University (PenzTU) – 82:56; With Penza State University of Architecture and Construction (PSUAS) – 69:63.
The champions were the students of PSU Dmitry Berezikov, Alexey Evstratov, Sergey Goryanov, Nikita Trushkin, Arthur Khe, Ilya Chekmarev, Shamil Dzhamayev, Leons Mukuta, Vladislav Chernov, Vladimir Dulynov and Vladimir Fomin. Coach – Andrey Evstratov. The second place was taken by PSUAS, the third – PenzgTU.
The women's team of PSU in basketball suffered two defeats: from PSUAS – 32:69 and from Penzt – 39:69. Our girls won the victory of the athletes of PGAU – 58:19. Thus, PSU closed the prize three, the second place – PSUAS, the winners were the student of Penzt. The PSU team under the leadership of Elena Novak was played by Ekaterina Zhuchkin, Anastasia Kislinskaya, Alisa Kozlova, Karina Nabieva, Svetlana Natolina, Anastasia Novozhenova, Daria Razumova, Alexander Shvara, Anna Shishakina and Elena Yudina.
This season, PSU teams won silver both in the men's and women's tournaments of the Student basketball association championship in the Penza Region – Sura division, losing both Golden of PSUAS.
At the Universiade of the Universities of the Penza Region, the 2020/2021 of the academic year, athletes of PSU also won in hockey hockey tournaments, skiing, sambo, chess, boxing, female volleyball, swimming, male table tennis, badminton. In mini-football, male volleyball and female table tennis, PSU representatives won silver. The Universiade will end in athletics competitions in May.
Aesthetic gymnastics
Mari El first adopted the Championship of the Volga Federal District in aesthetic gymnastics.Competitions were held from April 14 to 16 on the Tennis court of the Friendship Stadium. They were attended by about 500 athletes from Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Udmurtia, Saratov, Samara, Penza, Nizhny Novgorod regions and the Perm Territory. The champions were the gymnasts of the “Inspiration” team from Nizhny Novgorod.
The Sura team (Penza), which included Anastasia Muzaleva, Victoria Krasich, Elizabeth Lyubimenko, Elizabeth Kalkaeva (all – ifkis), Anna Samorodova (Yui), Polina Anthropova (IFF), Yana Savina (IEIU) and Anastasia Kuznetsova (Anastasia Kuznetsova (Anastasia Kuznetsova (Anastasia Kuznetsova (Anastasia Kuznetsova (Anastasia Kuznetsova (Anastasia Kuznetsova MK), took 2nd place. The team is trained by the PSU graduate, Honored Master of Sports of Russia in rhythmic gymnastics, President of the Federation of aesthetic gymnastics of the Penza region Evgeny Bochkarev.
Volleyball
From March 20 to April 18, the Penza Region in Penza was held in the Volleyball region of 2021 among women's teams, in which eight teams took part. Only the national team of PSU (coach-Vladimir Beloded) managed to go through the entire tournament without defeats and eventually take the first place, ahead of the Titans and Swallow-1 on the pedestal. In the new season, the national team will come with a new rank, as all girls will be assigned the category of “candidate for master of sports”. “With every year, the tournament becomes higher and the famous teams take part in it, which once again emphasizes the value of the victory of our team,” said the captain of the team of Kir Marakaeva. The PSU-2 team took 4th place. The volleyball players of the PSU managed to take only 8th place in the men's championship (winners from 1st to 3rd places: PSUAS-1, start-Soiuz, PSUAS-2).
The women's professional volleyball team of the University-Vizit PSU completed the season-2020/21 of the Championship of the Russian High League “B” in the 7th place in the final standings. The champion of April 11 was the Northerner-2 team (Cherepovets).
If by the end of December 2020 there were 13 victories in 16 matches in the University-Vizit assets, then in the second half of the championship he was able to win only three meetings with nine defeats. Having taken the 5th place in the Center group, the volleyball player Penza did not get to the main final. The final for 7-13 places was held in the city of Bryansk from March 21 to 28. Our volleyball players played against the teams Bryansk, Transbaikalka (Chita), the Baltic Wave (Leningrad Region), Angara (Irkutsk), Iskra-Amond (Samara) and Altai) Agau (Barnaul). “University-Vizit” won five out of six matches, losing only once-“Iscre-Amond”.
Compared to last season (when the Penza club took 9th place in the Center zone) for the University of Vizit the result-a step forward, but the head coach of the team Alexander Ganin considers him unsuccessful because it failed to cope with the main task And to compete for the medals: “Certain circumstances contributed to this – both objective and subjective. In January there was a tour in Ryazan, where we, together, lost three out of four matches.And then a tour in late February – early March in Izhevsk. There, in order to complete the task, one victory in four games was practically enough for us: either over the hostess, or over the team from Bryansk, which practically lost its chances for fourth place. But we lost in all four matches. It was absurd somehow everything turned out before the Izhevsk tour. It was our turn to go into quarantine due to the coronavirus, as a result of which the full-fledged training process was disrupted. Plus, the ridiculous injury that Valeria Filkova, one of our leaders, received. On top of that, literally on the eve of our departure, we were forced to part ways with one more player.”
In an interview with the Penza-Press portal, Alexander Ganin also emphasized that the serious changes in the team that took place during the off-season were justified: “These changes for promotion were suggested and necessary. As I said earlier, we attracted those who, in our opinion, could really improve the game, with whom it was possible to solve quite serious problems. Well, those who we could count on throughout the season, without dividing the team into home and away models. And, despite the unfortunate outcome for us, I believe that the changes were justified.”
Mini football
On April 18, the 12th season of the mini-football tournament of the Penza Football Amateur League ended. The PGU-3 team (team coaches – Kamil Trengulov and Anton Paramoshkin) won bronze medals in the Second Division Golden League, leaving behind the teams Taurus and Varnitsa. 40 teams took part in the competition, which took place from November 2020 to April 2021.
Table tennis
On April 24–25, the City Table Tennis Cup was held at the Nadezhda sports and recreation complex. More than 80 people took part in the competition.
The winner among the women's teams was the PSU team (coach – Ekaterina Vildanova), the silver medalist was the team of PSAU / school No. 6, the bronze medal was the team of school No. 6-1. The men's team finished 6th. Students who competed in the City Cup: Maria Mikheeva, Victoria Shirolapova, Kristina Kozina, Daria Makeeva, Alexei Salmin, Roman Kuzminov, Andrey Privalov, Alexander Boriskin and Danil Khramukhin.