On April 15th and 16th, Yang-En University held the billiards team trials in the billiards room on its first teaching campus with the purposes of enriching campus sports culture, popularizing billiards, improving students' physical literacy and competitive ability, and selecting members to form a high-level school billiards team. A total of 88 billiards enthusiasts from various colleges signed up for the competition.
The tournament adopted the single-elimination system. The players and their match assignments were determined via a live open draw. During the competition, the players remained composed throughout focusing intently on their aim, executing smooth cue pushes and delivering precise shots. With the sharp and clean sounds of colliding balls, they demonstrated advanced skills and competitive spirits. Around the compact billiard tables, they vividly embodied the charm of Chinese-style billiards, fully presented the vitality and Yang-En University students.
After 77 hard-fought matches over three rounds in two days, the tournament drew to a triumphant close with the result that 11 outstanding students stood out and secured the admission to the school team.
Since its founding, Yang-En University has placed great emphasis on students' physical education, adhered to the four-year consistent sports teaching mode and built the 2+2+1 PE curriculum system. It offers popular courses including dragon boat racing, dragon and lion dancing, tree climbing and archery shooting. In recent years, the university has steadily promoted the education reform with the integration of morality, intelligence, physical education, aesthetics and labor education. It keeps enriching sports education platforms by building an on-campus billiards room and launching billiards elective courses for all students from this semester to satisfy students' need for diverse physical exercises.
Based on the newly-launched billiards elective courses, this trial aims to select skilled and passionate billiards lovers to build a competitive team. The team members will set good examples to encourage more students to step out of dormitories, take part in sports actively, and keep healthy physically and mentally to achieve all-round development.(Written & Photographed by Publicity Department of the Party Committee)
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