Champika Weeratunge, Secretary of the Sri Lanka Girls Cricket Association since 2012 and an Executive Committee member of the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association in 2010 is a very good organiser who has won the hearts of all the schools involved in girls cricket.
An old girl of Christ Church College, Baddegama she has participated in Elle and Athletics and excelled in Badminton at school. She was under 13 and under 15 singles champion and under 17 and under 19 doubles champion at the All Island Girls Schools Badminton tournaments. She was coached by an Indonesia’s Subian Thakur, who was invited by her school.
Although she was interested in cricket her school did not have girls cricket at that time and she witnessed all the International cricket matches and started reading books about the game. She did higher studies and got an external Degree (Bachelor of Arts) at the University of Jayawardenapura. After that she followed a course in Diploma in Education from the University of Colombo and is presently following the MA Degree at the National Institute of Education at Maharagama.
She is currently the Deputy Principal of CWW Kannangara Vidyalaya.
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