In order to further promote the Nankai sports spirit, play the role of physical education, and enhance teacher-student exchanges, the School of Finance recently held the “Teacher-Student Cup” basketball game. The opponents are an undergraduate team and a joint team composed of college teachers and graduate students. This event was hosted by the College Youth League Committee Student Extracurricular Activities Guidance Center and the Graduate Student Association. A total of more than 60 people including college leaders and representatives of teachers and students participated in the event to cheer for the participating team members.

Executive Vice President Xiaoyun Fan pointed out in his speech that Nankai has attached great importance to physical education since the establishment of the school. As early as a hundred years ago, the old principal Boling Zhang had put forward the ambition of “Sports Olympics”. The School of Finance actively implements the old principal’s sports thoughts. The purpose of holding this “Teacher-Student Cup” basketball friendly match is to enhance the physical fitness quality of teachers and students, enhance emotional exchanges between teachers and students, and create a good sports culture atmosphere. At the same time, it is also a hope for the two teams’ ability to break through and compete with the strength and style of the School of Finance.

Yuan Fang, secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Academy, introduced the competition and the players from both sides

With the referee’s whistle, the game officially began. The players from both sides fought fiercely and showed their talents: skillful crossover, tacit cooperation, continuous fast break, strong blocking, accurate three-pointers... to win the applause of the audience. After nearly an hour of fierce competition, the participating teachers and students fully demonstrated the tenacious struggle, concerted efforts, never-say-failure sportsmanship and high-spirited Nankai style. In the end, the teachers and graduate students team won the game with the score 66 to 54.

Xinming Li, the representative of the teacher team, said: “Chairman Mao once said ‘civilized its spirit and barbaric physique.’ Participating in a teacher-student basketball game will not only strengthen your body, but it will also be a good opportunity to contact and understand students, and it is more conducive to cultivate the unity of teachers and students, to demonstrate the new style of Nankai-Financial-Man.” Zeyu Guo, the representative of the undergraduate team , said: “Cooperating with the seniors and swap the basketball skills with the teachers, made me feel the friendship between teachers and students as well teachers as well friends, and it’s a real experience of everyone’s appreciation and inheritance of the Nankai-Sports-Spirit and Nankai Basketball’s ‘Five-Tiger-Spirit’. This friendly match gave me a lot of reward!”  

The both side players competed fiercely.

The leaders of the college awarded commemorative medals to the participants

The School of Finance has always attached importance to and vigorously promoted physical education, and extensively carried out various sports activities such as the “Dean Cup” basketball game, the “Dean Cup” table tennis and badminton competitions for teachers and students, and the “Finance New Style” teachers and students fun games, and strive to strengthen students physical fitness quality, pleasant student spirit, exercise student will, shape student character, at the same time further strengthen the teacher-student communication in the outside-classroom, condense the teacher-student relationship, realize the teacher-student sharing fun and achieve “to teach is to learn.”