DESCRIPTION:

*     The championship will take place at Shiv Nadar University in Gautam Budh Nagar District, Noida.
*     The championship, featuring 25 men’s and 24 women’s teams in the U18 age group, will be played in league cum knockout format.
*     Tamil Nadu boys and Karnataka girls are the defending champions from the previous edition held in Puducherry in May 2016.
*     Teams have been grouped into two levels – Level 1 features the top 10 teams from the previous championship divided into two groups of five teams each (Group A and B), while Level 2 features the remaining teams divided into four groups (Group C, D, E, F).
*     In the league stages, all the teams play each of the other teams in their group once.
*     The top three teams from each of the groups in Level 1 advance directly to the quarterfinals, while the fourth placed teams play pre-quarterfinal games against the top two teams from Level 2.
*     Both the boys and girls’ teams of Odisha will compete in Level-II.
*     They boys have been placed in Group-F along with Goa, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry, while the girls have been accommodated in Group-D with Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh.

ODISHA TEAMS:
GIRLS: Lipramayee Satapathy, Karishma Behera, Sonali Majhi, Ambika Bhatra, Sonali Das, Saraswati Behera, Anuradha Seth, Jinsirani Mallick, Durga Salbam, Pragati Ray, Susmita Sethi, Debashree Darshana Giri. Coach: Sashikant Nayak.
BOYS: Srikanta Jena, Abhisek Pasupalak, Suresh Das, Arshad Baig, B Shiva Sankar Reddy, Sarat Nayak, Prasanta Behera, Chandan Baral, Juel Lakra, Sachidananda Padhi, Hitik Singh, Aditya Prakash. Coach: Sashikanta Mohanty.