SPREE- Sports Re-enthused: The Journey So Far
Spree the sports festival of our college had humble beginnings in 2007 an as all-Goa event; a series of games conducted along with WAVES’07. After that there was no looking back. The experience thrilled the sporting enthusiasts of our college and laid the foundation for our sports fest.
SPREE 2008- ‘You game?’
With the tagline of ‘You Game’ , SPREE had 15 colleges participating like the PCCE, GEC, Chowgle College, RIEIT (Goa), RVCE and Jain College (Bangalore), DJ Shangvi (Mumbai) and MIT (Manipal). An exhibition match between Vasco Da Gama and Sporting Club de Goa infused the spirit of SPREE. There were eight events ranging from football to carom. SPREE saw some hard fought battles; some easy wins but a lot of sporting spirit. Spree saw the Coordination Commitee (Co-Co) members, who had tremendous love and respect for sports putting in long hours of brainstorming sessions and tremendous amounts of effort to put up a national level fest right from scratch. SPREE had something for the participants as well as the spectator audience to participate in and get their adrenalin pumping.
SPREE 2009- Pure Sport: Unleashed
The success of SPREE 2009 electrified the Co-Co members and motivated them to raise the bar of our sports fest even higher. In a first SPREE 09 saw our college enter into a partnership with Salgaocar Sports Club, one of India’s premier Sporting Clubs and Goa Cricket Association(GCA) to help us in organize the fest and also to develop our campus’ sporting infrastructure. An Open Marathon organized in association with Help-Age India and Nirmaan, the social service club of the college attracted the largest amount of participation to the tune of 800 registrations from far and wide and helped raise nearly Rs. 1 lakh which was later given to charity. With International Standard rubberized concrete tennis courts and wooden badminton courts, SPREE had enough to boast about. Glorifying traditional Indian Sports was the mantra for SPREE 09. Kho-Kho, Gilli Danda and Kabaddi took us all back to our sweet childhood days. Mallakhamb- indigenous form of gymnastics and Kalaripayattu- a martial arts form were major crowd pullers. Life Saving CPR Workshops by Drishti an agency that trains paramedics, short but intense Tai-Chi drills and Cardio-Kick boxing were other workshops which further helped to add intrinsic value to out fest. Spree 09 was indeed a memorable experience that will be cherished by the students for many years to come.