Badminton Tournament organized by the Diploma in Business & Diploma in Marketing Students of the School of Business and Accounting (SOBA)

On Saturday 19^th October 2013, the DBA and DIM students of the subject Principles of Marketing conducted a badminton tournament at a private badminton hall at Lot 9 Jalan 13/6, Section 13, 46200 Petaling Jaya under the supervision of their class lecturer Ms Tamil Selvi. This task was part of their class assignment which contributed to 50% of the total assessment. The tournament was opened to students and staff of Stamford College Petaling Jaya and also to some of their invited guests. Amongst the staff who had participated were the College’s Chief Financial Officer Mr Leong Kam Soon and his executive Mr Yogeswaran, the Coordinator of the UEL business programmes at SOBA Ms Haema Sukumaran, the administrator/lecturer at the Accounting Department of SOBA Ms Clovie Poh, the LIC of the A-Levels programme Mr Eng Fwu Ji and his lecturers Dr Cheng and Ms Khong. The School of Computing & IT was represented by Mr Xavier and Billings, Admission & Records by Mr Alex Lee.

As with other badminton tournaments, the participants competed in the singles and doubles categories for both men and women, and in the mixed doubles. Medals were awarded to the champion, the first runner-up and the second runner-up for each category by Mr Robert Cheong, the Head of SOBA.

Overall, the organising committee did a very good job in running a successful tournament and this experience gave confidence to the committee members in taking on bigger projects in future.