By Farah Radzuan & Syakir Nizam
GOMBAK, 10 April 2016: The Inter-Kulliyyah Sports Festival 2016 (KUSEF’16) in conjunction with IIUM Staff Games 2016 (SG’16) for the IIUM Track and Field Sports Meet 2016 came to an end yesterday with the Kulliyyah of Engineering (KOE) winning five golds in the medley relay (brother), 800 Meter (brother), 100 Meter (brother), long jump (sister) and shot put (sister) events.
“We trained every day since one month ago and target to end it with victory and I am so proud with my team that worked so hard to turn it into reality,” said Asri, one of the members from medley relay (brother) team.
On the medley relay (brother), KOE emerged gold, KENMS got silver and HS gained Bronze. For the medley relay sister categories, KOED ended with gold while ENGINIUS emerged silver and HS for Bronze.
Other than that, the Kulliyyah of Engineering continued their victory after their athletes were crowned as the winner of 100 meter sprints (brother), in that events, they also won for bronze while silver goes to ICTSS. On the other hand, in 100 meter sprints (sister), Farah Sakinah Sidek, a psychology student secured the first gold for the Kulliyyah of Human Sciences (HS).
“I actually did not target to win gold because I have left this event for five years, so this winning tonight was very unexpected. I also want to advice students who are interested to join athletics, should come to the stadium and we will train you,” said Farah who is in her graduating year.
In those events, KOED emerged silver and IRKBAR (IRK) won bronze.
Next, in shot put (brother), KEMNS ended with gold, HS gained silver while KOE for bronze. For shot put (sister), KOE emerged gold while HS ended with silver and bronze.
On the first day (8 April), in long jump event, Ahmad Syaqil (KICT) recorded his personal best to achieve gold, silver for HS and KAED emerged bronze. For sister’s category, KOE gained gold, KENMS strived silver and KIRK for bronze.
Finally, in 800 meter, Amin Mustaqim and Lutfil Hadi emerged gold and silver for KOE while KIRK gained the bronze while in sister’s category, Siti Norseha from KOED ended gold while Siti Balqis from KENMS and Nur Adiba (KOE) achieved the silver and bronze.
KUSEF is a competition that combined indoors and outdoors sports, organised by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) in collaboration with all Kulliyyah. KUSEf will be officiated on 16 April 2016, however, the field and track sports have been accelerated to 8 and 9 April 2016.
The objective of this event is to strengthen the relationship between SRC with all Kulliyyah-based societies, at the same time to encourage students to be active by involving themselves in both curricular and co-curricular activities. It also helps to strengthen the bond between IIUM students and to promote the spirit of brotherhood at Kulliyyah’s level.***