Gateway College with its spirit of enterprise has come out with a novel concept for their sportsmen and women who have been left in the lurch due to the pandemic.
To make it a reality Gateway’s physical education teachers and trainers have put together an online program of inter-house sports competitions in badminton, basketball, chess, cricket, football, karate, netball, rowing, squash, swimming, table tennis and tennis, culminating in a Pentathlon, spearheaded by Thilaka Jinadasa, the team leader of Sports Development for the group.
The Virtual Festival of Sports (V-FOS) to be conducted during a space of two weeks in October is designed to motivate students to compete through a point system and the programs can be logged into and monitored by the trainers and the school management.
In conducting the competitions, five students per age group from each house are allowed to participate except in chess where only four participants will be allowed.
Two reserves can be entered per event and each participant can only participate in one age category and two activities will be given for each age group.
The competitions are based on uploading videos on Flipgrid while the time duration for uploading of videos is 48 hours from the time of announcement of the competition.
In the cricket programme each participant will be given a time period to tap the ball with the bat and keep a record of how many taps are done without dropping the ball while badminton has a Shuttle Bouncing Challenge and a Wall Tapping Challenge.
Basketball will have Circuit Challenges for passing the ball round the head and the waist and Dribbling while for rowing, the challenges are Leap Frog and Bicycle Crunches.