1. Name of the Committee : Sports Committee 2. Director-in-charge: Pradeep Chinai 3. Co-Chairmen: Jamshyd Vazifdar & Moy Biswas 4. Name of Committee Members: Mehernosh Dotivala, Satyan Israni, Anand Dalal, Sanjiv Mehra 5. Number of Committee meetings held: No formal meetings to date 6. Objective: To promote fellowship through sports 7. Number of Beneficiaries: More than 123 (figure from the Rotary Year 2016-17) 8....
On a pleasant evening, a dozen Rotarians turned up at the NSCI on 28th April for ‘Underarm Cricket’ under floodlights. The event took us back to our childhood days of cricket in gardens and compounds. Caught up as we were in the spirit of those youthful times, we could be forgiven for the patently exaggerated appeals...
7:30am is early for a Sunday, let alone a Sunday bang in the middle of a long weekend. Our Rotarians sure are enthusiastic! 15 players took part in the Club’s 6th annual tennis tournament on 30th April at the CCI. The players were Anand Dalal and his daughter Naisha, Bipin Vazirani, Ishraq Contractor and his son...
The Second Annual Football Tournament, held on Saturday 4th March 2017, at the NSCI was another successful offering from the Sports Committee. In a 6-a-side format, the team captained by Rtn. Moy Biswas beat the team captained by Rtn. Sanjiv Mehra 4-2 over two hard-fought halves. Moy's team consisted of Rotarians Moy Biswas, Satyan Israni, Mehernosh...
For their first Rotaract event, the Rotaract Club of the Indian School of Management and Entrepreneurship (RC ISME), conducted a football match at the YMCA ground in Mumbai on 10th December, 2016. Their “goal”, in the sphere of this event, was not only to encourage collaboration and peer to peer learning, but to provide the...
Since the Second Annual Football Fellowship had to be postponed at the eleventh hour due to last minute cancellations and dropouts, the Sports Committee took the opportunity, with the assistance of the Bhavishya Yaan (BY) Committee, to get some BY children to play. Twenty enthusiastic children (eight from Ambedkar School at Worli, seven from GK Marg...
The Sports Committee successfully organized the Second Annual Table Tennis Fellowship, which was held on 25th September, at the YMCA. Apart from the Second Annual Football Fellowship, which will be held on 26th November at the NSCI, the Committee has also planned a Fellowship to Smaaash, Club Housie, and the annual Golf, Cricket and Tennis Tournaments....
Following the success from last year when RCB organized its first-ever Table Tennis Tournament, this year too, we were certainly not disappointed. Held on 25th September 2016, the format of the tournament remained the same as last year, where the four captains – Anand Dalal, Jamshyd Vazifdar, Mehernosh Dotivala and Satyan Israni - picked names at random to form their teams. In Group...
On the crisp Sunday morning of 24th March, 2016, the Tennis Stars of RCB gathered to celebrate the sporting spirit of Fellowship through the game of Tennis, at the Bombay Gymkhana, marking this as the Fifth Annual Tennis Tournament. Being a Sunday, numerous talented tennis players showed up early morning to occupy the limited number...
The 9th Annual Golf Tournament organized by the Sports Committee has come a long way since it was instituted in Jan, 2012. Its increasing appeal brought in 32 players this year on the 16th of January at the Willingdon Sports Club. It kicked off with the serious business of teeing with the following groups –...
Sunday, the 22nd of November, proved historic for the RCB indoors sports event – an tournament. Held at the YMCA, Colaba, the tournament had over 30 Rotarians attending and participating. The cochairs of the Sports Committee ensured tournament was a grand success! Rtn. Moy Biswas welcomed everyone and Rtn. Jamshyd explained the tournament format: The...
The Sports and Yoga Committee invites all Rotarians to participate in the three-day 'Arogya Mela' of RI Dist. 3140, Service – 15 Project. The RCB members could avail of the free multi-purpose yogic exhibition which will be held at the Phoenix Mills Compound (Parel) from the 4th to the 6th of December, 2015 from 9:30am...