The main objective of St. Wilfred PG College is “Healthy mind resides in a healthy body, with this aim and to develop team spirit and sportsmanship there are provisions for various indoor and outdoor games”. Sports Education is very important for the wholesome growth and development of a student. It’s improvement of various components of physical and skills related fitness like strength, speed, coordination. Sports are a fun way to keep the physical activity at par with the mental growth needs. At the same time, sports balance the static nature of academic education. There are a large number of students interested in some or the other sports domain in the city.

They may have great potential, ambition and ready to do hard work to achieve some respectable position and name in their respective sports area. If they are given proper guidance and coaching, they can shine in the events and bring laurels for themselves and also to the city. The St. Wilfred PG College has many facilities required to train the students such as play grounds for various sports, research laboratory, physiotherapy department, gym, yoga department, naturopathy department, swimming pool, necessary equipment etc. With the view to use these facilities for the betterment of the society also in addition to our regular students, this activity has been started.

Aims of the activities:

Sports are the activities that integrate amusement with physical exercise. Sports are usually games with certain rules that need exertion of body, mind or both. Education refers to learning a skill or acquiring knowledge. Coaching local youths in their respective sports areas by senior, experienced and national/state level participated students of the institute under the guidance of staff members of the College. Development of student’s College provide sports activity from last many years with great responses.

The main objectives of the activities are.

• Acquire knowledge about human body as its functioning is influenced by physical activities.
• To make our student coaches more profound in their area.
• Sport and play promotes social change by utilizing sport as a platform to advance social change.
• Develop physical talents to their maximum potential.
• Sport and play create equal access and equal opportunity for all, and help eliminate discrimination, violence and abuse.
• Sports education offers children and adults a wonderful metaphor for understanding the dynamics of the world around us (business, politics, etc.) and our personal lives within that world.
• Engage in organized activities with other students whose backgrounds may be dissimilar from their own.
• Develop socio-psychological aspects like control of emotions, balanced behaviour, development of leadership.
• Exemplify good conduct as a means for learning good citizenship.
• Learn to appropriately experience both success and failure in an educational environment.
• Develop motor abilities like strength, speed, endurance, coordination, flexibility, agility and balance, as they are important aspects for good performance in different games and sports.
• Experience a feeling of self-worth and to develop self-confidence.
• Engage in competitive activities, while promoting sound health, safety, and physical fitness.
• Create a positive rallying point for the school in order to help them develop school spirit and loyalty.
• Students get a chance to work on their physical and mental abilities to achieve goals in their life.
• In sport, we experience every possible emotion and psychological state, as we (athletes, coaches, parents, fans) are forced to respond to constantly changing circumstances.
• Experience working as a team member, exercising self-discipline and self-sacrifice in order to achieve team goals.
• To provide valuable contribution to the society
• To create awareness about importance of sports amongst young generation
• Learn how to be a good teammate, making positive contributions, regardless of the role on the team or activity.

Currently, the coaching is done in various sports namely Swimming, Wrestling, Athletics, Gymnastics, Cricket, Basketball, Boxing, Badminton, Football etc. Many people are taking advantages of this facility. Many sports persons are participating in these sports activities and more than 100 skilled students of our College are participating in training activities. A large number of local students who got trained with these activities and coached by the students and staff members of the college have been successful sports persons and participated in state, national and international level competitions and received awards in state level and national level tournament/ championship for which the College and everyone associated feels very proud.