Tuesday, March 9, 2010

LPU showcases the best of track and field competitions

The finest sporting feats were displayed by athletes of various institutes and schools of the Lovely Professional University in the Annual Athlete Meet held at LPU. The meet witnessed an intense competition where more than 500 athletes competed in 16 separate game contests in both men and women category and a number of records were made by the participating students.The overall trophy was won by Lovely School of Education(LSED).The honour of Best Female Athlete went to Sandeep Kaur.Harinder Kumar,who was adjudged as the Best Male Athlete, ticked an amazing 11.89 sec(against the world record of 9.58 sec) to win the gold in 100m and to become the fastest man in the meet.In women's category the laurel was won by Shilpa with a timing of 15.88m. Both the athletes were from LI Ed(Lovely Institute Of Education).

Executive Dean of LPU,Mrs. Rashmi Mittal, said that it is heartening to see thatthe students are more enthusiastic about the games than ever.She noticed a marked change in the level of performance of players from student community than it was two decades ago leading to the fact that the potential is on the rise. LPU will work more assiduously towards developing this potential and script possible success stories at national and international level.

At the end of the meet Mr. Ashok Mittal, Chancellor of LPU honoured the athletes for their splendid performances. The overall trophy was awarded to Lovely School of Education for leading the score tally with 6925 points,Second Runners Up trophy was won by Lovely School of Engineering and the First Runners up trophy went to Lovely Institute of Technology (Polytechnic), with 2300 and 1275 points, respectively. The vote of thanks was given by Dr. SK Bawa, Dean-LSEd, which was followed by a colourful Rajasthani Dance presentation and playing of National Anthem.

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