Annual Sports Day
A magnificent sports extravaganza, “The Annual Sports Day” was organized at Ramaiah Institute of Management, Bangalore on 29th and 30th March 2022. All students participated with great enthusiasm and manifested their athletic skills with an unimpeachable finesse.
One day 1, the event was inaugurated by the director of the institute Dr. Manasa Nagabhushanam. All the sports day events were organized by the Faculty Sports Coordinators Profs. Arul Jyothi and Lakshmi Kannan.
The inauguration was followed by the contingent march which was led by the respective team captains.
The major outdoor events like cricket (preliminary rounds), volleyball, throwball, 4 x 100 m relay and 100 meters race were held on Day 1. There were 5 teams based on sections and students of all the sections show cased true team spirit in all the games and were all well-coordinated. The finalists were to compete against each other on day 2. The events were held separately for boys and girls. There were about 200 participants from all the classes.
Day 2 was dominated by indoor sports like Table tennis, Carrom, Chess, and Badminton. There was no dearth of enthusiasm as well for the indoor events.
All the participants and teams were victorious as the players were imbued with a true team spirit. Here are the winners of some events that took place:
Sakthi Shivani S bagged the first place for badminton girls followed by Sushma V. The winner of badminton boys was Aditya Marve followed by Vasanth.
The winners of the oldest most popular board games: Chess were Shakshi Balasaria (girls) and Nirmal (boys), followed by Kamishetty Vandana and Amay Vikkram Singh.
Keerthi Chandrika, the only girl on the volleyball team was a part of Section B who were also the winners of Volleyball, followed by Section D.
Section C bagged the first place for Throw Ball followed by Section D.
Santosh Prabhu bagged the first place in 100-meter race boys followed by Suhasa V. Lakshitha Verma on the other hand bagged the first place in the same event for girls followed by Aishwarya Ramesh.
The winners of Basketball were Section B followed by Section C.
It was an electrifying experience for the spectators of cricket on Day 2 before the indoor events took place. All the five teams played displayed great sportsmanship and it was a true pleasure to watch the athletes. The winners were Section B led by Captain Anthathi Sasidhar. The runners up were Section C led by captain Ajit Gupta.
The Best Batsman award was given to Ajith Gupta, Best Bowler was Sandeep Mohapatra, The Man of the Match for finals was Rishabh Ghosh and Man of the Series was Tanay Kumar. A special mention of Yoga Srinivas who did a commendable job.
Section B was awarded with the Best Cheering Team award for always motivating their players. Section B also won the Overall Championship Trophy for the AY 2021-22.
The Annual Sports Day proved to be an extremely refreshing experience for the students and teachers at Ramaiah Institute of Management.
