Mini Marathon 2007

Every year, at the beginning of November, the Sports staff organise a mini marathon; twice round the campus of Asian University or approximately 4km up and down hill. The event is open to everyone at Asian U: University students, College pupils, faculty members, maintenance and cleaning staff.
A single lap relay race was run first and then the main event; the ninth mini-marathon. The overall winner was China Tosinthiti or Ninja, a second year engineering student, who finished the course in 15 minutes, over two minutes ahead of the second student, Anat Tangwisesphabul or Pop, another second year engineering student. A third year multi-media student (Watunyu Chaiyasit, also nicknamed Pop) came third.
Sirima Monphananeewong or Sima, came first of the female students in just over 22 minutes; she is a second year business student. First (4th year Liberal Arts) was third and Jo (2nd year multi-media) came third.
The fastest in the male staff category was Apisit, one of the maintenance team, and the first female staff member was College teacher Shayapa.
There were several categories of awards: students, staff, males and females, College pupils, which meant that there were lots of medals presented to happy runners. After the ceremonies, there was a barbecue for everyone to enjoy.

Asian University welcomes Mahidol University for sports day



Asian University played host to Mahidol University International College on Saturday 3 November in their annual competition. This year was the turn of Asian University, on Highway 331, to invite Mahidol University from Bangkok.


The day started with a traditional welcome to the visitors at Asian Unversity’s modern sports facility. A full day of sports had been arranged and both universities won several games and matches.


There were a number of sports on the agenda with the first being the men’s basketball match, which Mahidol won with a comfortable lead. Many other sports followed, such as the men’s and women’s table tennis and single and mixed badminton matches as well as the first ever women’s volleyball match. Both universities took an equal share of wins in all of these matches.


One of the highlights of the day was the men’s volleyball game with each team taking a game apiece with the two point advantage changing sides frequently; this ensured a very entertaining and nail biting time .

The third and deciding game was a very tight affair with Asian University taking the final score of the game to 15 – 12 resulting in a narrow but well deserved win.


The final match of the day was the football game which was played outside in the true tradition of the game under a beautiful setting sun in the natural surroundings of the campus.


Mahidol was leading 2-0 at half time when Asian U fought back to bring the score at the ninetieth minute to a very respectable draw of 3-3.

The day finished up with a BBQ and a show by Asian U’s dance and music club. It was a truly wonderful day of sports and another step in cementing a strong inter-university sports and academic relationship, which has now been growing for five years.

Summer University 07

Asian U saw the very first Summer University students enjoy many events during their stay, with sports playing a major part of their introduction to Thailand. The always popular, introduction to Muay Thai, along with an afternoon of fun and games at the sports center followed by a BBQ ,was as usual, very popular.

As an added extra we also took them to the island, Koh Larn, for a day of sea and sun with a relaxed sports programme which saw them swimming and playing a kind of beach volleyball/ water polo.

Inter-Years Sports Competition

The Inter-Years Sports Competition, which was held on Saturday were a great success for all concerned with a full day of fun, sports and activities. The day kicked off with a opening speech by Dr Viphandh, who encouraged students to share and compete in the days events, and life in general, with true sporting, and personal professionalism.

The day was, in all our opinions, the very best sporting match up we have ever had on campus. The overall winners, by a narrow margin, were the 4th year students who clinched the competition in the final basketball match. Coming a close second were the 2nd year with the 3rd year taking out the cheer leading performance. A truly great day of friendship, sportsmanship and comradeship, and we would like to say a special thank you to the organiser Mr Putt, 3rd year engineering student and his team for a great idea and a great day!

A special "thank you" to all who helped me celebrate my birthday at the closing ceremony in such an excellent fashion, one of the best birthdays I have ever had. By the way, the BBQ (Pig on a Spit) was also excellent.

Thank You

James and the Sports Center Staff

Winter University at Asian U

Asian U had the privilage of hosting the 'Winter University' students and sports and activities was high on the agenda. The Introduction to Thai (Muay) Boxing took place on Sunday the 18th of February at the sports center under the supevision of Khun Samret, center staff and boxing expert, assisting with him was a first year student Mr Kong. The Europeans were very keen to try this Thai traditional sport and displayed vigerous and determined interest, although soon finding out what a tough sport this really is. The photos show the style and effort put in by the students in what proved to be an excellent afternoon of fun and exercise.

University Games 2006/7 Finals

Well the second and final stage of the University Games for 2006/7 were held in Nakon Nayok with the one-hundred and fourteen universities attending all sports and also taking part in the wonderful closing ceremony. Asian U did well to compete with the larger universities from all over Thailand and we will be back in 2007/8 bigger and better and with a few more wins coming our way.

Mini Marathon 2006

Wednesday the 29th November saw another great day at Asian U for students and staff. The afternoon started with 'Game Wat Duang" on which I am very happy to report that Asian U holds second place in the competition out of fifteen universities taking place. More on this competition from The Student Union.
Following the 'game' the 2006 mini-marathon was held with a very strong line up of runners and supporters. The following results and attached pictures will give you an overall view of the event.

Taekwondo Club

Asian University is very proud to inform you of their new Taekwondo club which was started a few months ago. Under the expert instruction of Mr Kiatikun Kiatpechara, a.k.a Pun-Pun, first year BBA student the club recently had the honour of conducting the first official grading of ten of our club members. This grading was conducted, on campus, by a qualified examiner from the World Taekwondo Oganisation based in Bangkok. Thanks to the first class instruction of Mr Pun-Pun,, all ten of our students who were graded passed from level one to level two of their yellow belt (first belt). In addition the student's grades were exceptionally good with grades from a C to A+, so again, thanks to the dedication and expert instruction from Pun-Pun.The club has around fifteen members and trains twice a week. We look forward to further developments and some inter-university competitions in the near future.