Dinesha Prasadani

Dinesha Prasadani (born 11 November 1987) is a Sri Lankan volleyball player and beach volleyball player who also currently serves in the Sri Lanka Air Force. She is also the current national captain of the Sri Lanka beach volleyball team.

Biography She lives at Katupotha in Chilaw. She pursued an early interest in sports from her school days.

Career She captained Sri Lankan women's volleyball team at the 2016 South Asian Games. She was appointed as the captain of the Sri Lankan women's volleyball team which competed at the 2017 Asian Women's Volleyball Championship where Sri Lanka eventually finished at thirteenth position.

In March 2022, in an exclusive interview with Youth Observer which is a subsidiary newspaper edition of Sunday Observer, she revealed that she took and pursued interest in beach volleyball in 2018. However, records indicate that she has played beach volleyball in national colours as early as around 2014 when she represented Sri Lanka at the 2014 Asian Beach Games and competed in the beach volleyball competition.

She was supposed to represent Sri Lanka at the 2018 Asian Games and which would have guaranteed to make her Asian Games debut. However, only Sri Lankan men's national volleyball team was sent for the 2018 Asian Games as COVID-19 pandemic disrupted women's teams preparations in lead up to the tournament.

She also adjudged as the most valuable player as well as best receiver award in the women's category at the 2018 Munchee National Volleyball Championships and played her part in helping Air Force to win the women's title during the course of the tournament.

She was appointed as the captain of the Sri Lanka beach volleyball team in 2019.

She along with Deepika Bandara teamed up and won the 2022 Central Asia Beach Volleyball tournament which was held at the Negombo Beach Park.