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SPORTS ASSOCIATION
 

Be it character building, developing managerial skills or simply understanding the value of belonging, participating and achieving, the students of St. Xavier’s College manifested these exemplary qualities with great aplomb this year. Their achievements have been manifold and the following is a summation of their effort. A packed calendar saw our nineteen Inter Department and Open Tournaments being conducted year round. College teams participated in a number of Calcutta University Inter College Tournaments and came back with a number of trophies.

The Department conducted the Annual Sports on Saturday, 14th January, 2012 which saw large participation from the entire staff and student body. The very attractive Departmental Parade was won by the B.Ed Department with the Most Enthusiastic Contingent Award being picked up by BBA. The Sports Department actively contributed to Xavotsav where we conducted Table Tennis, Basketball, Football, Volleyball and Throwball. The Annual Teaching v/s Non-Teaching Staff Cricket Match was conducted.

Each year we try to maintain the high standards which have been set over the years. It is encouraging and satisfying to work among the students who vie amongst each other to wear the college colours and keep the flag flying high. To see our Xaverian teams winning against top clubs of the city and being a large part of the University teams, strengthens our resolve to promote and encourage sports and games at St. Xavier’s College.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR:

University Blues:

Each year St. Xavier’s College sends up talented students to try out for the Calcutta University teams which participate in the various East Zone and all India tournaments and each year the number of students making it to the University teams is highly commendable. In the academic year 2011-12 a total of thirty-six students from SXC represented Calcutta University:

Keeping the College flag flying high

SXC Womens badminton team emerges Champions in the CU Inter College Badminton tournament.

Left to right- Mohormala Mukherjee, Riya Sarkar, Rimita Das, Nikita Sinha
Badminton Mens team wins CU Inter College

Left to Right- Raunaq Singh Roy, Dipayan Saha,Rishav Sethia, Saurav Chatterjee, Dipanjan Saha

SXC Womens Table Tennis Team come Runners Up in the CU Inter College Tournament:

Left to right- Pooja Surana, Ankita Das, Roshni Bhattacharya, Suganda Roy

OTHER INDIVIDUAL WINNERS AT CU INTER COLLEGE:

SXC EMERGED CHAMPIONS IN THE CRICKET ASSOCIATION OF BENGAL – ALL BENGAL INTER UNIVERSITY INTER COLLEGE T-20 CRICKET TOURNAMENT 2011-12.

Our student Avirup Gupta BA(G)II adjudged Best University Cricketer 2011-12

SXC students receiving the CAB All Bengal Inter University Trophy from Bishen Singh Bedi
The “Xaverians Club”- a registered unit with the Bengal Hockey Association and West Bengal Basketball Association participated in all the tournaments conducted by these state bodies.

Hockey:

Our Hockey team participated in the First Division league, where we retained our position in the same and Lakshmibilas Cup where the team exited in the semi final stage. Ably coached by Mr. Subir Kr Pan the team also travelled to New Delhi to participate in the Nehru Colleges Hockey Tournament. The team got valuable tournament exposure playing on Astroturf against Al-Ameen College, Bangalore and Jamia Milai Islamia New Delhi.

Xaverians Hockey Team

Basketball:

Our very formidable Basketball Mens team stood a creditable fourth in the Ist Division League table. The Xaverians also participated in the State Championships and reached the quarter final stage.

Xaverians Womens’ Basketball Team:

Truly the feather in our cap this team is a spirited one playing enthusiastically in all the local and invitational tournaments. They won the Goodwill tournament held at YMCA defeating all the top teams of the city.

Xaverians Women’s Basketball Team

Our student who went International!

Kudos to Sheshadri Sanyal BA Sem I for representing the All India University team at the 12th World University Badminton Championship 2012 held in Gwangju, Republic of Korea from 6-11 November. Sheshadri reached the quarter final stage in the Singles and Doubles event.

ANNUAL PRIZE DISTRIBUTION

The Sports Department held its Annual Prize Distribution Ceremony on the 16th of April where meritorious students were felicitated. Third year students who played on college teams all three years, University Blues and Department winners were awarded.

The Most Valuable Sportsperson Award was jointly awarded to Varinder Singh Gill(Hockey)and Sayan Kr. Pandit (Basketball):

Each year dedicated students work year round planning and implementing our programme. Our Principal felicitated Sandeep Mundra (B.Com III) and Zamyad Meherji (B.Com III) for their outstanding contribution to the Department.

SXC AT:

BITS PILANI OPEN SPORTS MEET 13-17 September 2012:

The college sent its Basketball and Football team to participate in this National College Sports meet. The football team performed creditably winning the Championship defeating Motilal Nehru College New Delhi, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, BRCM Haryana along the way. The finals against RAIT College Mumbai saw SXC winning 2-1.

MARINE ENGINEERING COLLEGE SPORTS MEET 14-17 NOVEMBER 2012:

SXC participated in their Hockey and Cricket tournament winning both the events.

IIT KHARGPUR SPORTS MEET SHAURYA 12-14 OCTOBER:

The College also sent a huge contingent to IIT Kharagpur for their Sports Meet Shaurya. A total of 83 students participated in 13 disciplines. Our teams made a clean sweep in Football, Cricket, Table Tennis (W), Lawn Tennis (W) and Athletics where we won 8 Gold Medals 2 Silver Medals and 1 Bronze Medal. We were Runners Up in Basketball Men and Women, Lawn Tennis Men events.

THE NATIONALS:

Two of our students Aditya Banerjee (Biotechnology Sem I) and Sahana Bhattacharya (English Hons sem I) represented West Bengal in the 33rd Junior National Rowing Championship held at Jagatpur , Odisha.