Campus Digest

HKBU men’s basketball team grabs first runner-up title in intervarsity competition

30 Mar 2017

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HKBU men’s basketball team wins the first runner-up position in an intervarsity competition.
HKBU teachers, staff, students and team members’ friends cheer for the team at the competition

HKBU men’s basketball team clinched the first runner-up spot in an intervarsity competition, after a lapse of 10 years.
 
Captain of the team Lau Ka-yin was encouraged by the performance, the best result in recent years. He said that some new members and the new assistant coach come from Hong Kong basketball first division teams. The new recruits have solid playing skills while the later introduced a series of professional training programmes which not only helped improve the team members’ stamina and skill level, but also raised their understanding of tactics and their sense of belonging.     
 
The team’s coach and Lecturer of the Department of Physical Education Mr Warman Cheng will retire this year. Ka-yin said the team would like to proceed to the final round of the intervarsity competition as a retirement gift for him. Therefore, the team have chosen “back to honor” as this year’s mission. On the competition day, members of the HKBU community wore blue T-shirts, the colour of HKBU, emblazoned with this slogan. Ka-yin said, “Hundreds of HKBU teachers, staff, students and team members’ friends cheered us on. It was like looking at the blue sea; this boosted the team’s morale significantly. We sincerely thank them for their support.”
 
The team will continue to devote themselves to training. They aim to participate in more competitions so that new members can gain more experience and attain excellent result again.