Students from all over the country have attended the college sports festivals in the city; MiD DAY profiles two popular ones

Sport fests are the new in thing for the students in the city. Be it CoEP's Zest or ISB&M's Runbhoomi, sport fests have taken a front seat and are a fast becoming the most popular event for college students.

This week saw the maximum student participation in annual college festivals with two big sports festivals happening over the past couple of days. MiD DAY has a look at the sports fests going on in the city.

CoEP's Zest
This five-day long fest, that has about every indoor and outdoor sport covered, has seen the maximum turnout at a college festival in the city so far. Not just city students, but teams from colleges across the country have come to participate and have been allotted rooms in the college hostel.


Get Set Go!: Swimmers at Zest, CoEP's fest.
PIC/JIGNESH MISTRY

In fact, the registration for events like cricket matches exceeded expectations to such an extent that organising college had to start off with the matches from Jan 20, three days before the festival began so that teams could be eliminated earlier.

The fest has till now seen a footfall of around 3,000- 4,000 students each day. Said Naimin Bijlani, a student participant from Gujarat, "This is one college fest where we are pitted across teams nationwide and if we win this, it is as good as being a national level player right? So we are here to win."

Runbhoomi
The sports fever in city is soaring and ISBM's Runbhoomi is not far behind. The three-day annual sports festival being held at two different venues in the city has 68 participating colleges and about 2,000 students have registered for various sporting events.

The sports festival will also see a few night events including cricket matches that will be played under special lights. Special arrangements have been made for that.

But the participants had a few complaints too. The captain of a participating team from Modern College of Computers and Business Jobin George (22) said that though the event was well organised with no major hassles, the only concern was the ground was too small to accommodate two teams.