Sports
DMC has sports facilities. Intramural and intercollegiate competitions within departments of the college and among the colleges of HCT and other colleges and universities are a regular occurrence. DMC students participate in College Olympic events, HCT Sports Day, the Higher Education Sports Federation (HESF) intercollegiate competitions, HCT rowing competitions and HCT cross country running. DMC students are highly successful in national championships in track and field, taekwondo, swimming, football, basketball, volleyball and table tennis. During the 2007-08 academic year, DMC won the HESF championship securing for themselves seven gold medals, the HCT overall championship, the HCT soccer league, and the HCT volleyball league.
The DMC sports and fitness center opened in 2004, making a significant difference to the capacity and quality of DMC’s sporting activities. The 100,000 square-meter facility features an Olympic-size swimming pool, an outdoor multipurpose stadium, a FIFA approved soccer pitch, two 5-a side soccer pitches, a volleyball court, four tennis courts, a running track and field, two basketball courts, three squash courts, a cricket pitch, two beach soccer pitches, two beach volleyball pitches, an adventure quest site, two fully equipped gyms and a games room for playing snooker, billiards and table tennis.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sweet smiling village, loveliest of the lawn,
Thy sports are fled and all thy charms withdrawn;
Amidst thy bowers the tyrant’s hand is seen,
And desolation saddens all thy green;
One only master grasps the whole domain,
And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain;”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)