Defending champions Social Sciences will be hard pressed to retain their crown when the University of Guyana stages its Inter-Faculty Athletics Championships which begins today and end tomorrow, at the Turkeyen Campus and the Guyana Defence Force grounds respectively.
According to Sports Coordinator Lavern Fraser-Thomas, who spoke with this newspaper yesterday via telephone, the field events is scheduled to begin today at the Campus ground starting at 13:00 hrs, while the Track segment will be held at the GDF ground, commencing from 09:00hrs, tomorrow.
Fraser-Thomas opined that this year’s competition is anticipated to be very exciting, especially with the Berbice Campus submitting a full list for all the events unlike previous years and this development has stirred heated debates on Campus as to whether the defending champions will have things their way this time around.
Athletics fans and sports lovers are being urged to come out and support the two-day event as the University moves to heighten awareness of the importance of students to participating in sporting activities.