BBK DAV lift overall sports trophy

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 15

The BBK DAV College for Women lifted the GNDU Overall General Sports Championship Trophy consecutively for the seventh time and won a cash award of approximately Rs 35 lakh.

As many as 150 players of the college received Rs 35 lakh as the prize money from Rahul Bhatnagar, Secretary, Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, and Dr Gurdeep Singh, Joint Secretary, AIU, New Delhi, at the 48th Annual Sports prize distribution function (2017-18) at Dashmesh Auditorium, GNDU.

Five international cyclists of the college, Nayana Rajesh, Amritha Regunath, Aleena Reji, Vaishnavi Gabhane and Aashu Sharma received maximum cash prize of Rs. 4,28,000, Rs 3,46,000, Rs 2,40,000, Rs 2,29,000 and 1,00,000 respectively amongst women players. Principal Dr Pushpinder Walia was honoured and Sweety Bala, Head, Department of Physical Education was also felicitated with cash award of Rs 4,000.

Out of the 52 Inter college competitions organised by GNDU, the college participated in 49 events and got 47 positions in canoeing, rope malkhumb, pistol shooting, rowing, table tennis, tug of war, judo, yoga, kayaking, lawn tennis, archery wooden, wushu, power lifting, weight lifting, road cycling, track cycling, basketball, wrestling, fencing, rifle shooting, boxing, softball, korfball, baseball, yachting, kick boxing and netball. Seven teams got first runners up positions in chess, handball, squash racket, kabbadi (c/s), gymnastic artistic, football, and cricket. Nine teams got second runners up positions in ball badminton, badminton, archery compound, archery recurve, hockey, indoor hockey, rugby, kabaddi (n/s) and swimming.

Two cyclists Amritha Regunath and Eleena Reji were part of the Indian contingent in Common Wealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia. Principal Walia congratulated all the achievers.