Physical recreation through games and sports has been an important part of the Institute since its inception. TIET’s sports section organizes the tournaments in all games like Cricket, Football, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Tennis, Table Tennis, Chess, Handball, Swimming, and Athletics for boys and girls throughout the year. Tournaments are URJA (A National level tournament in which IIT’s, NIT’s and other Technology Institutes are participated) , Inter Technology University competition , Thaparlympics (a Inter department sports competition) , SPADES (an Inter year sports competition), IGNITE (an Inter hostel sports competition), Annual Athletic Meet ( an inter Department Athletics competition) besides this competitions TIET’s students also participate in All India inter university tournaments as well in invitational tournaments organized by the different AIU and IITS. And also has been showing tremendous performance in these tournaments. Today, the Institute has well equipped and best sports facilities in a number of games and sports like International standard synthetic Athletic track, synthetic Tennis courts, synthetic Basketball court, Swimming pool etc. The tradition continues, as students of the institute keep making use of the marvellous sports facilities to excel in sports and games. In order to motivate the students and to get them interested in sports, a wonderful tradition being followed in the Institute that all newly admitted students at Thapar Institute are provided with a track suit and a T-shirt bearing the Institute logo. To organize and coordinate the sports activities TIET has full-fledged sports section as it has one Deputy Director Sports and seven full time coaches in different games to coach the students.
Sports facilities at TIET :-
|
Sr. No. |
Name of the Facility |
No. of Facility |
|
1 |
Synthetic Track 400m |
1 Nos. |
|
2 |
Synthetic Basketball Court |
1 Nos. |
|
3 |
Synthetic Tennis Court |
4 nos. |
|
4 |
Cemented Lawn Tennis Court |
2 Nos. |
|
5 |
Cemented Basketball Court |
2 Nos. |
|
6 |
Swimming Pool |
1 Nos. |
|
7 |
Cricket Ground |
2 Nos. |
|
8 |
Lawn Tennis Practice Wall |
1 Nos. |
|
9 |
Football Ground (11a side) |
2 Nos. |
|
10 |
Football Ground (6 aside) |
2 Nos. |
|
11 |
Volleyball Ground |
3 Nos. |
|
12 |
Badminton Hall |
1 Nos. |
|
13 |
Badminton Ground (Outdoor) |
7 Nos |
|
14 |
Handball Ground |
1 Nos. |
|
15 |
Hockey Ground |
1 Nos. |
|
16 |
Cricket Net practice Pitch |
1 Nos. |
|
17 |
Table Tennis Hall |
1 Nos. |
|
18 |
Yoga Room |
1 Nos. |
|
19 |
Chess Room |
1 Nos. |
|
20 |
Gym Hall in all Hostels |
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