SUNDAY 7TH JUNE, 2015 – UWI TODAY
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On May 28, the UWI Mona
Campus
track and field athletes painted the
day’s Games red as they dominated
the events. The Mona teammaintained
their title of “Champion Campus”
having also taken the title at the last
games in 2013 and overall, the results
remained unchanged from the 2013
games with the Cave Hill and St.
Augustine Campuses taking second and third place overall
respectively. Final point standings were 104, 92 and 56. The
Athletics meet was the final event for the 2015 UWI Games,
the biennial meeting of the four campuses of The UWI,
which kicked off on May 21.
Of the 10 sporting disciplines, the Mona Campus took
the titles for swimming, female basketball, netball, cricket,
female football and female volleyball, in addition to athletics.
Securing second place overall was the Cave Hill Campus
who championed male basketball, female and male hockey,
male volleyball and lawn tennis. The St. Augustine Campus
placed third overall finally taking the male football title that
has been long held by the Mona Campus, as well as table
tennis. For the Open Campus, the UWI’s network of smaller
sites across the region, this was their first showing at the
Games. The team successfully competed in netball, tennis,
female volleyball and male football, but unfortunately did
not take any of the individual titles.
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Read and Run
This year’s UWI Games
provided an avenue for regional UWI
athletes to give back. For the first time in the history of the UWI
Games at the St. Augustine Campus, an outreach initiative called
the “U+We Read: Crossing Borders” was introduced; requiring
that each campus make a book donation to one of four selected
primary schools in the St. Augustine area.
Delegations of approximately ten students of the four
campuses – St. Augustine, Mona, Cave Hill and the Open
Campus, visited St. Benedict’s Boys’ RC Primary, Curepe Vedic
Primary, Riverside Hindu School and Maracas SDA Primary
schools for a book reading to the students and donation of
the collected books. This is part of the campus-wide “Service
Learning and Community Engagement: A New Agenda for
Higher Education and Learning” initiative, commissioned by the
Office of the Deputy Principal in 2009 geared towards training
students to become civic-minded citizens.
Of the 10 sporting disciplines, the Mona Campus took the titles
for swimming, female basketball, netball, cricket, female football
and female volleyball, in addition to athletics.
Mona
Masters
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