OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDENTS
2nd May, 2018
Subject : write-up on Sports activities from November to May. 2018
Introduction
Semester one of every academic year is the peak of University Sports competitions. Since November last year, the following sports activities took place.
Inter-year, Inter-Course, Inter-Culture and Inter-Hall Sports Competitions
These were held at the different campuses and they helped the coaches identify sports talents at the different campuses. These competitions are also used to form campus teams that represent their campuses in the Inter-campus Sports Competitions
The 2017 Season of Busitema University Inter-Campus Sports Competitions
Starting with the Games Union meeting, Busitema University Inter Campus Sports Competitions were officially opened by the Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences, Dr. Nangoli Ssudi on 18th November, 2017. The games were hosted by Busitema campus and a gala was run due to limited time to closing the university. A total of 879 students participated in the year’s edition.
The overall performance was as shown in the table below.
Performance
Team performance per event were as shown in the attached results. The overall performance was as shown in the table below.
FINAL MEDAL TALLY
Overall Ranking
1st Arapai
2nd Busitema
3rd Nagongera
4th Mbale
5th Pallisa
6th Namasagali
Arapai campus was the overall winner and they received a trophy. The best campus among the males was still Arapai and they won a bull and 8 crates of soda. Busitema campus was the best among women and won a cow and 5 crates of soda.
Games Union Council Meetings
The fourth games Union council meetings were held on 17th November, 2017 that planned for the academic year’s sports activities and also budgeted for the financial year 2018/2019. The biggest concern was lack of office space for the games union at all campuses.
17TH Association of Uganda University Sports GAMES 16TH – 21ST DECEMBER 2017, NDEJJE UNIVERSITY
The 17th AUUS games took place at Ndejje University from 16th to 21st December 2017. 17 universities participated in these games.
A total of 98 people from Busitema university people participated in the event. These included 84 students, the senior warden who represented the Dean of students, the Sports Tutor, 8 Coaches, 1 medical officers, the AA Guild and Sports, the Games Union Chairperson and the Custodian represented the University.
The teams were selected as shown in the table below
| NDEJJE GAMES, 2017 | ||||
| 16TH – 21ST DECEMBER 2017 | ||||
| GENERAL ENTRY FORM | ||||
| BUSITEMA UNIVERSITY (BUS) | ||||
| SN | SPORT | MEN | WOMEN | TOTAL |
| 1 | Athletics | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| 2 | Badminton | |||
| 3 | Basketball | 10 | 10 | |
| 4 | Chess | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | Darts | |||
| 6 | Handball | |||
| 7 | Hockey | |||
| 8 | Karate | |||
| 9 | Netball | 10 | 10 | |
| 10 | Rugby | 10 | 10 | |
| 11 | Scrabble | |||
| 12 | Soccer | 15 | 15 | |
| 13 | Softball | |||
| 14 | Swimming | |||
| 15 | Table-Tennis | |||
| 16 | Tae-Kwon-Do | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 17 | Tennis | |||
| 18 | Volleyball | |||
| 19 | Woodball | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| 20 | Disability Sports Goalball | |||
| 21 | Sitting Volleyball | |||
| 22 | Wheel Chair Basketball | |||
| OFFICIALS | 11 | 3 | 14 | |
| TOTAL | 58 | 40 | 98 | |
Performance
The teams performed as below
| S/No. | ITEM | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1 | Chess | |||
| 2 | Karate | 1 | 1 | |
| 3 | Basketball | |||
| 4 | Tae-kwon-do | 2 | ||
| 5 | Woodball | 1 | ||
| 6 | Football | |||
| 7 | Table Tennis | |||
| 8 | Rugby | |||
| Sub-Total | 2 | 3 | ||
| TOTAL |
We got a total of 5 medals and 2 trophies (3rd place overall in Taekwon-do men and women)
Busitema University emerged 11th out of 17 universities overall as shown on the attached results.
SPONSORSHIPS
- We got Rugby Uniform from the Uganda Rugby Union on 12th August 2017. This encouraged students to start up a rugby team and we are now participating in the Eastern region rugby league.
- On 26th November 2017, we won a set of Netball Uniform and 1,000,000/= in the Injector plan Netball tournament organised by Uganda Healthy Marketing Group (UHMG) when we emerged 4th out of 12 institutions. UHMG wants to collaborate with us and we help promote their healthy programmes in Eastern Uganda.
CHALLENGES:
- Few teams were presented due to insufficient funds.
- IFMS financial management system which made release of our funds hard
WAY FORWARD / RECOMMENDATIONS
HAVE TWO FULL TIME ALL ROUND COACHES AT ALL CAMPUSES TO HELP IN DAILY TRAINING
- Offer sports scholarships to talented students
- There is need to revise the sports policy because the student leaders miss use the authority granted to them by the policy.
Regional Football League
The Games Union agreed that all campuses should register their football teams in their various districts to play FUFA 4th division football competitions. Busitema campus succeeded and is now playing the 2nd leg of the league in Busia district. The team is currently ranked 3rd out of 10 clubs. This is intended for students to interact and reach out to the neighbouring community.
Scrabble on the Nile Tournament
This took place from 16th to 17th December 2017. 4 students represented the university, Nanyanzi Dianah who was ranked 5th, Musinguzi Obadiah (8th), Tumwijukye Shaban (10th) and Nagasha Elizabeth (11th) out of 100 participants.
Eastern Region Rugby League
The university registered for this league and 5 clubs participated. The team emerged 5th because they did not participate in all the scheduled games. The sports administration is working on appointing a coach to train the team as the students seem to be so much interested in the game.
6TH SEASON OF THE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL LEAGUE (UFL)
Introduction
The 6th season of the university football league started on 28th March, 2018. Busitema University hosted Nkumba University on 4th April, 2018 and beat Nkumba 2-0. Busitema is now 3rd in the group with 3 points (St. Lawrence University, Nkumba university, Busitema university and lastly Kampala university), our students, Kakala Joshua (BU/UP/2014/573) was awarded the Most Valuable Player for the team (MVP), Lumala Ronald won the man match for the game between Busitema and Nkumba University.
We thank the university management for the support towards the sports unit.
Funding for sports
The games union leadership has accepted to increase the sports fee from 15,000/= to 35,000/=, efforts are being made to convince the Guild leadership who will then hold campus assemblies with the rest of the students. Proposals requesting for funding are also being written to cooperate organisations requesting them to fund certain sports activities like Red Rhino, Nile special, Pepsi, Riham, Bidco Uganda ltd and embassies.
UP COMING EVENTS
Interhall sports competitions
| DATE | ACTIVITY | VENUE |
| Currently | Recess sports activities | Busitema Campus |
| 16th – 22nd Sept. | Inter hall, inter courses, inter year sports activities | All campuses |
| 29th Sept. & 6th Oct. 2018 | Inter campus sports competitions | Namasagali, Busitema |
| 14th Oct. to 14th Dec. 2018 | Training for EAUG | All campuses |
| 15th Dec. to 22nd Dec. | EAUG competitions | University of Dodoma |
| 9th October, 2018 8th | AUUS Woodball Championship | Busitema University |