Aimed at promoting sports spirit, team spirit and interaction among UTAR staff from both Kampar and Sungai Long Campuses, UTAR Staff Sports and Recreation Club (USSRC) of Sungai Long Campus in collaboration with USSRC of Kampar Campus organised the “UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games 2023” on 11 June 2023 at UTAR Kampar Sports Complex and Grand Kampar Sports Complex.

This year, the intercampus friendship games which consisted of football, badminton and netball, saw the participation of more than 100 participants comprising both academic and non-academic staff. The event kick-started with a Zumba session at 7.30am at UTAR Kampar Sports Complex, followed by a football match at 8.30am. The event continued with badminton and netball games at Grand Kampar Sports Complex at 11am.

Prior to this event, the first part of the UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games 2023 was held on 20 May 2023. The first part of the intercampus friendship games featured a total of two sports games which were bowling and futsal. The bowling match was held at Ampang Superbowl, Bangi Gateway while the futsal match took place at Galaxy Futsal, Seksyen 15, Bangi.

The UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games 2023 is an annual event held between UTAR Sungai Long Campus and UTAR Kampar Campus staff. This event serves as one of the team building enhancement events and as a major platform to select the best combined UTAR staff team to represent UTAR in high-level competing games, such as Kejohanan MASISWA (Majlis Sukan IPTS Malaysia) Networking Games or any other university open invitation.

This is the second UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games; the first one was held in February 2020, at UTAR Kampar Campus where games like football, futsal and netball were played.

The UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games 2023 ended with a prize-giving ceremony. The closing ceremony was graced by UTAR President Ir Prof Dato’ Dr Ewe Hong Tat. In his speech, Prof Dato’ Ewe emphasised the importance of sports and wellness in achieving work-life balance. He enthused, “Apart from promoting healthy lifestyles, regular intercampus sports activities can promote socialisation and team spirit among staff from both campuses. I hope we could organise more events in the future so that we can encourage more staff to actively get involved in physical activities.”

Prof Dato’ Ewe also thanked and congratulated both the USSRC Kampar and Sungai Long Campuses for the well-organised sports events. USSRC Kampar and Sungai Long were led by Department of Safety Security (DSS) of Kampar Campus Manager Shamshul Kamal bin Ahmad and DSS of Sungai Long Campus Manager Muhammad Sallehudin bin Mohamed Sidek respectively.

Additionally, UTAR Vice President for Internationalisation and Academic Development Ir Prof Dr Goi Bok Min participated in the Badminton Mixed Doubles Category and clinched gold for Sungai Long Campus.  

Kampar Campus emerged as the overall Champion of the UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games 2023 and walked away with the UTAR Chancellor Cup. The champion of the respective games received gold medals and trophies; whereas the first runner-up walked away with silver medals.
Congratulations to all the winners and participants!

The list of winners is as follows:

A. First part of UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games 2023
1. Bowling - Kampar Campus
2. Futsal - Sungai Long Campus

B. Grand Finale/Second part of UTAR Staff Intercampus Friendship Games 2023
1. Netball - Kampar Campus
2. Badminton
a. Veteran - Kampar Campus
b. Mixed Doubles - Sungai Long Campus
c. Women's Doubles - Kampar Campus
d. Men's Doubles - Kampar Campus
e. Overall Badminton - Kampar Campus
3. Football - Kampar Campus