Sports at IIFT: Siddharth Kumar,
MBA - International Business, 2005 – 2007
Sporting life at
IIFT is enjoyable. Sport and games provide a refreshing break from
the hectic schedule and rigors of academia. Badminton, volleyball,
basketball and table tennis are popular among the students. IIFT has
its sporting festival called the Motley Brew held twice every year,
once in August and again in February. Competition is intense and the
levels of enthusiasm are high. Badminton, volleyball, basketball go
on late in the night till 2 AM. Adrenaline rushes start as early as
6 in the morning with senior team vs. junior team cricket matches.
Female participation in team sports is remarkable with every team
having at least one female member.
When autumn makes way
for the pleasant beginning of winter, IMT welcomes the best of
sporting talent for its annual sporting extravaganza ‘Chakravyuh’.
It is seventy-two hours of non-stop sport filled with fun. This
year’s Chakravyuh gained even “grander grandeur”. It has set a lofty
benchmark for years to come.
The three day non-stop
sporting festival (21st – 23rd October) saw the participation of 21
B Schools with the number of contestants exceeding 500, each vying
to carve a niche for himself and for his team. IIFT stole the
limelight by winning the trophy. What makes this achievement even
more special is that this was the first time that the Chakravyuh
trophy left the IMT campus in spite of eight IMT contingents.
MDI played host to
this year’s annual inter B school sports meet. Top B Schools from
the NCR region were vying for the title of overall champion. IIFT
won the football, badminton men’s singles, women’s doubles and mixed
doubles events. Beating the hosts at the football finals under
floodlights was an unforgettable experience.
No description of
sport and games at IIFT can be complete without the mention of the
incessant computer gaming that goes on in the hostel and the
infectious Su-do-ku mania. Working hard on project presentations in
the middle of the night provide refreshing breaks from tiring and
strenuous Need for speed multiplayer online tournaments.
In conclusion, IIFT is
very conducive to sport and the frequent B School sports fests keep
the enthusiasm levels high. The badminton, volleyball and basketball
courts seldom see a dull moment. IIFTians strike a perfect balance
between work and play and it is this balance that will help them
develop into managers who are perfect all-rounders.
MOTLEY BREW: the IIFT Sports Fest –
Prasenjit Sarker, MBA (IB), 2005-07
Professors, guest lectures, assignments, case studies no longer are
the sole sources of learning for students of IIFT. For him, life
extends much beyond the rigmarole of quizzes, presentations, term
papers. Recent years have seen a new profound interest for sports
among IIFTians, after all where else can a young, manager-to-be
learn values like discipline, responsibility, self confidence,
sacrifice and accountability. The sporting life at IIFT is one of
the many fond memories that an IIFTian takes away with him/her. IIFT
emphasizes on all round development of an individual and therefore
boasts of many facilities aimed at this objective.
Motley Brew conducted twice a year as an intra college event: once
when the new batch arrives in the campus; and the other when the
second year batch gets placed at the fag end of their two year love
affair with IIFT is one such step to meet that goal of holistic
education. The timing of the event is important as the students
arrive and leave IIFT with fond memories of this period of
celebration. It’s a nearly 16 hours, 3 days event where students
dare to play badminton till 3 a.m, take a short nap and get up to
play a game of cricket again at 7 a.m. Interspersed within are
sports like Table Tennis, Volleyball, Basketball, Treasure Hunt and
lots more.
If it’s Motley Brew time, its sports time- when sports rule. Junta
clash with each other and the budding managers get to learn what it
means to perform in highly charged up, pressure moments with so much
at stake. Sport at IIFT is not just taken as a pastime to negate the
drudgery of the mundane academic load. We play it with the spirit,
the passion and the commitment which may not match that of an
Olympian, but surely does not fall too very behind it. And did not
John Wooden say, “Sports don’t build character, they reveal it”.
Sports Secretary
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