Banyoles has been designated as City of Catalan basketball 2022, by the Catalan Basketball Foundation. Throughout this year the City Council and the Banyoles Basketball Club will organize different activities to commemorate the designation. The presentation will be next Saturday 26 from February at noon in the Auditorium of the Ateneu. The Cadí La Seu player from Banyoles, loaned by Spar Girona, Júlia Soler She will be the godmother of this celebration and during the day the calendar of activities organized jointly by the City Council and the Banyoles Basketball Club will be unveiled to celebrate this designation with the aim of impregnating the city with basketball.
Since 2000, cities such as Girona, Figueres, Badalona, Lleida and more recently Balaguer have been designated as Catalan Basketball Cities, an initiative of the Catalan Basketball Foundation to recognize the territorial impetus of basketball and also to support people who work for this sport and the training values it represents.
Mayor Miquel Noguer thanked Banyoles for its designation as the City of Catalan Basketball 2022 and emphasized that “basketball is one of the driving forces behind the sport in our city”.
In this sense, he remarked that the designation as a City of Catalan basketball is a “recognition to all people who participate in basketball in Banyoles, not only as players, but in all areas of this sport and especially in the Banyoles Basketball Club that works hard in our city to represent the values of basketball ”.
For her part, the president of the Banyoles Basketball Club, Montse Sitjàsaid that it is “a privilege for Banyoles to be the City of Catalan Basketball 2022” and added that “we invite everyone to actively participate in this celebration based on the different activities that will be organized throughout this year.”
