{"id":1766,"date":"2023-01-05T12:32:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2023-01-05T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T12:32:29","slug":"26-day-soa-cup-sports-competition-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?p=1766","title":{"rendered":"26-DAY\u00ad SOA CUP SPORTS COMPETITION KICKS OFF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Students of different institutions under SOA Deemed to be University will be competing in more than a dozen events over a period of 26 days for the SOA Cup which kicked off in the university campus here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The events in which the students\nwill take part include Football (only boys), Cricket, Volleyball (only boys),\nBasketball, Lawn Tennis, Kho Kho (only boys), Throwball (only girls), Table\nTennis, Softball, Chess and Kabaddi. A separate competition for the best\nphysique for boys will be held as well. Kho Kho has been introduced for the\nfirst time this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1767\" data-link=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?attachment_id=1767\" class=\"wp-image-1767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Siba Mohanty, Resident Editor of\nthe New Indian Express in Bhubaneswar, graced the inaugural function of the SOA\nCup as the special guest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Speaking on the occasion, Mr.\nMohanty said sports needed a big push in India where only 5.7 per cent of the\n140 crore population were sports literate while about 10 million youngsters\npursued only badminton in China. However, sport was looking up in India as the\nrecent performance of the country\u2019s contingent in the Olympics indicated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1768\" data-link=\"http:\/\/utkalaage.in\/?attachment_id=1768\" class=\"wp-image-1768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/soa-cup-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Odisha was also investing in sports\nproviding a boost to different games, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Abinash Tripathy, a state-level\ntable tennis player, took the oath on behalf of the partipants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The institutions participating in\nthe annual fiesta included Institute of Technical Education and Research,\nInstitute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, Institute of Dental Sciences,\nSUM Nursing College, Institute of Business and Computer Studies, School of\nHotel Management, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, SOA National Institute of\nLaw, Institute of Agricultural Sciences and Institute of Veterinary Science and\nAnimal Husbandry. Students of the Institute of Higher Secondary Education, the\nPlus Two Science College run by SOA, are participating in a few disciplines for\nthe first time this year.\n\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The\ninaugural program was attended by SOA\u2019s Vice-Chancellor Prof. Bijay Kumar Sahu,\nPro-Vice Chancellor Prof. Pradipta Kumar Nanda, Pro-Vice Chancellor cum\nRegistrar Prof. Bibhuti Bhushan Pradhan and Dean (Students\u2019 Welfare) Prof.\nJyoti Ranjan Das. Ms. Sunita Barma, Sports Officer, proposed the vote of\nthanks.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students of different institutions under SOA Deemed to be University will be competing in more than a dozen events over a period of 26 days for the SOA Cup which kicked off in the university campus here on Wednesday. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The events in which the students will take part include Football (only boys), Cricket, Volleyball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utkalaage.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}