BITS Pilani's annual sports festival, SPREE 2013 took its "Act to Inspire" campaign a step further with the help of the Special Olympics Bharat movement. Differently abled atheletes from all over India competed against the official BITS Pilani teams in Badminton and Football. While the special olympics team fell marginally behind the local college team on both fronts ( BITSPilani eventually winning 2-1 in Football and 3-1 in Badminton, ) they were successful in proving their enormous sporting talent as well as their determination.

"Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt," being its oath- Special Olympics Bharat operates with the philosophy that people with intellectual disabilities can also learn and enjoy from participation in sports, endeavours to provide holistic development and training that goes beyond the classrooms into the playing fields, cultural and community centres, to motivate children with disabilities to join and remain in school. Through the blissful yet tiring act of training in sports, the team via 179 National Coaching Camps has built numerous leaders and healthy athletes. The movement is chaired by war veteran Air Marshall DenzilKeelor, .

Special Olympics Bharat currently has under its wing:

950,943 athletes with intellectual disabilities

84,950 coaches and trainers

Participants from all states and Union Territories of India

100,000 athletes more reached out to every year

Over 24,000 athletes competing at the National Games since 2002

Chess

Host team BITS Pilani successfully defended their title with a dominating display on Day 2 of SPREE 2013. Following are the final standings for the top 10:

• 1) BITS PILANI – 12.5 points                         2)BPHC – 9.5 points
• 3)Sri G.S. Inst – 9.5 points                             4)COEP – 9.5 points
• 5)INDUS– 8.5 points                                       6)Sri Venkateshwara – 8 points
• 7)MNIT Jaipur – 8 points                               8)MIT Manipal – 7 points
• 9)NMIMS –  6 points                                       10)Cummins – 1.5 points

 

Football

Both the morning and evening batches of Motilal Nehru, Delhi advanced to the semi-finals of the football championships, while BITS Pilani thumped Prestige 6-0 en route to the semis.

Quarters :-

• Motilal (Morn) vsChowgule (1-0)
• Motilal (Eve) vsManipal (1-0)
• BITS Pilanivs Prestige(6-0)

Cricket

IPS Indore inflicted crushing defeats on BITS Pilani Hyderabad as well as IIST, Indore to advance to the semi- finals. They will be joined by BITS Pilani, COE Pune and INDUS, Tamil Nadu.

• BPHC VS IPS(38/10 – 13.3 overs, 41/0 – 5.1 overs)
• SINHGAD VS INDUS ( 58/10- 16.4 overs, 59/1 – 9.3 overs)
• IPS VS IIST(125/7 – 20 overs, 100/10 – 18.3 overs)
• MNIT VS BITS PILANI(86/3 – 20 overs, 87/3 – 14.2 overs)

Carrom

Following are the results from the group stages of the carrom championships.

• STC(B) VS INDUS(A)(0-25)(Singles)                          INDUS VS BITS PILANI(0-25)(Singles)
• INDUS(A) VS STC(B)(4-18) (Singles)                         INDUS(A) VS BITS PILANI(0-25)(Singles)
• BITS PILANI VS COEP Pune(22-10)(Singles)           SCT VS INDUS(1-25)(Doubles)
• COEP VS BITS PILANI(25-6)(Singles)                         COEP VS MACE(25-0)(Singles)
• COEP VS BITS PILANI(10-20)(Doubles)                    NMIMS VS INDUS(18-17)(Singles)
• NMIMS VS INDUS(7-25)(Singles)                                              SCT VS COEP(0-25)
• COEP VS MACE(25-0)                                                     COEP VS SCT(25-9)
• COEP VS SCT(25-0)                                                          BITS PILANI VS SCT(25-4)
• BITS PILANI VS SCT(25-0)                                              BITS PILANI VS INDUS(25-0)