ITS Engineering College: Sports is the fuel

“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. This isn’t just a small proverb, this is the formula to make people more efficient and work more effectively yielding more output. Yes, Sports is the fuel and at ITS Engineering College, Greater Noida, they take care of this section greatly.

 

ITS Engineering College believes that a healthy mind resides inside a healthy body. It understands the importance of an agile body and its multiple health benefits. Hence, ITS offers numerous sports opportunities to its students by conducting various inter-college and interzonal sports events.

 

While sports have many health benefits, it can be utilized in many other ways too and ITS understands that it can be utilized to bring out and develop the character of the students more. Hence, here at ITS, sports are looked at as an opportunity to build up the students’ leadership qualities as well as their creativity.

 

The college not only encourages its students to just take part in sports but also provides them with facilities that are of high standards. ITS boasts of different sports facilities on its campus, like badminton court, basketball court and table tennis court. Other than these indoor sports facilities, there are grounds for outdoor sports like football, volleyball, kabaddi, kho-kho and a standard track for athletics.

 

And apart from these facilities, the college provides its students with a wide number of activities and programs both on campus and in the community. And all these extracurricular activities provide them with many short and long-term benefits.

 

Each year the college hosts UDGHOSH SPORTS FEST which is an annual sports competition. Udghosh provides the perfect platform for the students to showcase their sports talent as well as their sportsmanship and leadership qualities. It is one of the most awaited events at ITS.

 

And to bring healthy competitiveness in the games, the students are allotted houses that compete among themselves to win the sports. There are four houses in ITS that compete among themselves for the trophy, they are Agni House, Vayu House, Salil House and Vyom House. This event helps to bring the students together to work as a team and achieve their goals.

 

The sports event in Udghosh has a variety of sports to participate in. There are a total of 14 sports to the tally such as Football, Cricket, Volleyball, Futsal, Carrom, Table Tennis, Kho-Kho, Badminton, Athletics, Basketball, Chess, Tug of War and Powerlifting.

 

Now coming to achievements, students of ITS has bagged a lot of trophies and medals to their and their college’s name in various inter-college and interzonal competitions. To name a few of the champions, ITS is proud to have Sheell Vardhan a student of B.Tech, Final Year who won Gold Medal in 2018-19 and a silver medal in 2019-20 Zonal level AKTU Sports. Payal Singh a student of B.Tech 2nd year won the Gold Medal at the 2018-19 Zonal level AKTU Sports in Chess.

 

In other important sports achievements, for the first time in the history of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, a Zonal Level Kabaddi sports competition was organized in which ITS Engineering College won the Gold Medal. Apart from this the college also won Silver Medal in Chess and Shotput and Sakshi Gupta grabbed a bronze medal in the 200m race.

 

Some other achievements by students of ITS at AKTU Zonal Sports are:

·         The Volleyball Team bagged Silver Trophy in the AKTU Zonal Sports Fest 2018-19.

·         Nikunj Rakesh, Vikas Bhati, Aman Singh & Rajiv Ranjan won 2nd prize – 4x100m relay, AKTU Zonal.

·         Nikunj Rakesh, Rajesh Thakur, Aquib Javed & Ashwin Tomar bagged 2nd prize – 4x400m relay, AKTU Zonal.

 

Some of the important Sports Achievements by ITS in 2018-19 are:

• ITS Engineering College bagged 10 Medals in Dr. AKTU Zonal Sports Fest.
• 2 Gold Medals in Chess and Shot Put.
• 6 Silver and 2 Bronze Medals in Athletics, Volleyball, Kho-Kho, etc.
• The volleyball Team stood 2nd in MOSIAC 2018.
• The Cricket Team bagged the 2nd Prize in RANN, KIET, 2018.

 

On the end note, Sports is an opportunity to build and bring out sportsmanship and leadership qualities. And at ITS, we believe sports is the fuel towards bringing out the creativity and efficiency in humans.