Empowering health through sports, connecting five continents through exchange. Closely aligned with the national "Weight Management Year" health improvement campaign, the series of sports events for the second semester of the 2025-2026 academic year, coordinated by the Student Work Department, have successfully concluded. Multiple competitive events including basketball, football, billiards, and badminton, along with normalized campus running, were successively carried out. Chinese and foreign youth actively devoted themselves to the arena, sculpting their physique and tempering their body and mind between running and swinging the racket, blending cultures in shoulder-to-shoulder competition, and outlining a vigorous, open, and inclusive campus health picture.
From April 7 to 10, the 3rd "Maple Leaf Cup" Campus Billiards Tournament was successfully held at the Daheishi Campus, where Chinese and foreign students competed on the same stage. Players bent over to bridge the cue, calibrated the angle, precisely controlled the ball path and force, and steadily struck the cue ball into the pocket. The event tested judgment and a calm mindset, with victory and defeat determined by skillful layout. In the matches, players calmed their minds and relieved academic pressure; light and sustained exercise helped regulate physique, and they gained the joy of sports in the quiet and focused contest, building a relaxed international exchange bridge with the small ball.
▲Daheishi Campus
From March 25 to June 9, the "Maple Leaf Cup" Basketball Tournament was heatedly conducted at the Qidingshan Campus, with cheers resounding continuously on the court. Wonderful moments such as dribbling breakthroughs, pass-and-cut coordination, jump shots, and position defense were constantly staged. High-intensity running and confrontation fully consumed physical energy and effectively helped weight management. The team members fought together and encouraged each other, enhancing friendship in fierce confrontation, and deeply practicing the sports spirit of unity and cooperation and never giving up.
▲Qidingshan Campus
From April 14 to 28, the 3rd "President's Cup" Class Football Super Championship debuted on the green fields of both campuses, becoming a popular event for students to reduce fat and shape their bodies. Players on the field quickly passed and cut, intercepted and shot, with compact transitions between offense and defense, and uninterrupted running improved body metabolism. Teenagers of different nationalities galloped on the same field, supporting each other and sprinting with full force, releasing youthful vitality while sweating, and developing healthy habits of self-disciplined exercise and scientific weight control through long-term persistent running.
▲Daheishi Campus
▲Qidingshan Campus
From May 11 to June 10, the 4th "Maple Leaf Cup" Badminton Tournament kicked off as scheduled at both campuses, with a warm atmosphere in the venues. White shuttlecocks flew back and forth in the air, with clearances, drop shots, and smashes presented in turn. Players moved agilely and swung the racket neatly; singles honed reaction ability, and doubles often featured Chinese and foreign students partnering and cooperating. The whole event involved continuous running and jumping, balanced full-body exercise, and easily dissipated excess calories. Everyone relaxed their body and mind in the joyful competition and felt the joy brought by borderless sports.
▲Daheishi Campus
▲Qidingshan Campus
Campus running covered both campuses. This activity broke the boundary between teachers and students; faculty and Chinese and foreign students formed teams together to check in, and figures of people jogging in pairs could be seen everywhere on the campus trails in the morning and evening. Everyone supervised each other and persisted in exercise. Jogging can not only strengthen cardiopulmonary function and relieve work and academic pressure, but long-term persistence can also scientifically regulate physique and efficiently control weight. In June, the 2nd International College Student Happy Marathon held by the college saw enthusiastic registration from teachers and students. Diverse figures shuttled across the campus, making normalized fitness a new campus trend.
▲Daheishi Campus
▲Qidingshan Campus
▲Marathon Event Site
This Sports Activity Month embedded weight management health education into the internationalized campus education scene. Through immersive sports one after another, it broke the inertia of prolonged sitting, guided students to establish regular living habits, and internalized self-disciplined exercise and scientific body shaping into daily consciousness. On the field, there is no distinction of nationality or between each other; sweat is both a polishing agent for the physique and a bond for cross-cultural communication.
In the next stage, the Student Work Department will continuously deepen the campus sports ecology, integrate fitness sports into daily campus life, consolidate the health foundation of teachers and students through normalized sports practice, support academic development with vigorous physique, and guard the long-term growth of every teacher and student.
