TU Delft finished in third place for the overall cup during this year’s International Education Sports Day. Last Saturday, some 1,300 students from 70 different countries descended on Laan van Poot sports complex in Den Haag to compete in the International Education Sports Day.
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TU Delft sent eight teams % a team for each sport in competition. Cheerleaders included, more than 100 TU Delft students participated in the event, and all had only one goal in mind: To win the overall cup.
With the welcomes and warming up done, the games got under way. The TU basketball team won its first-round games easily and made it to the championship game. Theodore Charitos, a TU basketball team member from Greece, wasn’t entirely pleased though. “Unfortunately, the court was very small, so there wasn’t enough space for our supporters.” In the final, the TU beat their cross-town Delft rival, the IHE Institute. “We were behind early,” Charitos says, “but we got better as the game progressed and won by 10 points.”
The TU’s volleyball team also met IHE in the final. The TU took an early lead in a close, hard fought battle. Supporters from the rival institutes wildly clapped, screamed, stamped their feet, cheering their teams on to victory. Unfortunately for the TU team, it wasn’t enough. IHE won by 2 points!
Although not quite as boisterous and bustling, the TU chess team also played some exciting matches. In the championship match, the TU played UT Twente. “With just one minute left in the match, we were playing very fast, it was crazy!” exclaims Dang Quang Hieu from Vietnam, the TU Chess team captain. “I was very nervous, but
maybe my opponent was even more nervous.” The TU Chess team won.
Most TU team members said their main motivation for participating was to have fun. Nevertheless, the teams prepared quite seriously. Hieu, who only started playing chess when he came to Delft to study, said his team practiced for one month prior to the event. “We’d meet once a week to have lunch or dinner and play a few games.” The TU basketball team also took its preparations seriously. “Our team had been practicing since the end of January,” says Charitos, who also plays for Punch, the TU Delft basketball club.
Mary Dotman, who organized the TU team’s participation in the event, regrets the team didn’t win the overall cup. This was the fourth time the TU competed, and last year’s TU team finished second to IHE. “I thought we’d do better, but unfortunately not,” Dotman laments. Dotman says there’s another reason why the TU is eager to win the cup: “IHE has won the cup many times. If IHE wins the cup five times in a row, they can keep it, and we definitely don’t want that to happen!”
Last Saturday, some 1,300 students from 70 different countries descended on Laan van Poot sports complex in Den Haag to compete in the International Education Sports Day.
TU Delft sent eight teams % a team for each sport in competition. Cheerleaders included, more than 100 TU Delft students participated in the event, and all had only one goal in mind: To win the overall cup.
With the welcomes and warming up done, the games got under way. The TU basketball team won its first-round games easily and made it to the championship game. Theodore Charitos, a TU basketball team member from Greece, wasn’t entirely pleased though. “Unfortunately, the court was very small, so there wasn’t enough space for our supporters.” In the final, the TU beat their cross-town Delft rival, the IHE Institute. “We were behind early,” Charitos says, “but we got better as the game progressed and won by 10 points.”
The TU’s volleyball team also met IHE in the final. The TU took an early lead in a close, hard fought battle. Supporters from the rival institutes wildly clapped, screamed, stamped their feet, cheering their teams on to victory. Unfortunately for the TU team, it wasn’t enough. IHE won by 2 points!
Although not quite as boisterous and bustling, the TU chess team also played some exciting matches. In the championship match, the TU played UT Twente. “With just one minute left in the match, we were playing very fast, it was crazy!” exclaims Dang Quang Hieu from Vietnam, the TU Chess team captain. “I was very nervous, but
maybe my opponent was even more nervous.” The TU Chess team won.
Most TU team members said their main motivation for participating was to have fun. Nevertheless, the teams prepared quite seriously. Hieu, who only started playing chess when he came to Delft to study, said his team practiced for one month prior to the event. “We’d meet once a week to have lunch or dinner and play a few games.” The TU basketball team also took its preparations seriously. “Our team had been practicing since the end of January,” says Charitos, who also plays for Punch, the TU Delft basketball club.
Mary Dotman, who organized the TU team’s participation in the event, regrets the team didn’t win the overall cup. This was the fourth time the TU competed, and last year’s TU team finished second to IHE. “I thought we’d do better, but unfortunately not,” Dotman laments. Dotman says there’s another reason why the TU is eager to win the cup: “IHE has won the cup many times. If IHE wins the cup five times in a row, they can keep it, and we definitely don’t want that to happen!”
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