AUD athletes scored big last week at the annual International Athletics Tournament held on the campus of the American University in Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AUD’s men basketball and volleyball teams, as well as Emirati tennis player Fahad Al Janahi, won 1st place in their respective categories. AUD’s women\u2019s basketball team and men\u2019s soccer team came second, while the female volleyball team won the third place. In the tennis men’s final, Janahi, 20, defeated Athanasios Tzortzakis from ACG Greece University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eleven teams from Italy, Greece, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates participated in five different sports for both men and women. The annual event was hosted by AUD for the first time.
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\u201cThe Athletics department usually participates yearly in an International tournament” that is each time organized in a different country, Maria Khoury, AUD\u2019s Athletics Coordinator, told the MBRSC Post. \u201cThis year we decided to be the host and organize one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many AUD athletes were competing for the first time against international teams.
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\u201cNot only was it a competition but it was an opportunity to meet new people, witness some talented athletes and most of all get closer to my teammates as we had to come together to fight on the court,\u201d said Kalkidan Bekele, a member of AUD\u2019s women\u2019s volleyball team. “It brought diversity and skills into one.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AUD’s Athletic International Tournament was an opportunity to train the students to fight for every point and to strive for success, but it was also used as a learning experience for many of the athletes in the university.
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\u201cThe international tournament was an amazing opportunity to use as a learning experience by being exposed to teams that play at a higher level than what we usually play against,\u201d said Yara El Zein, an athlete on Sports Scholarship for AUD\u2019s Women\u2019s Volleyball Team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Placements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Men\u2019s basketball: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st place: American University in Dubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd place: ACG Greece University<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd place: Jam Sports Academy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woman\u2019s basketball:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st place: Tor Vergata Rome University<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd place: American University in Dubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd place: Jam Sports Academy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s volleyball:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st place: American University in Dubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd place: Lebanese American University- Jbeil<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd place: Lebanese American University- Beirut<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woman\u2019s volleyball:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st place: CUS Statale Milano-Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd place: ACG Greece University<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd place: American University in Dubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s soccer:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st place: ACG Greece University<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd place: American University in Dubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd place: American University of Beirut<\/p>\n\n\n\n Men\u2019s tennis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st place: Fahad Al Janahi- American University in Dubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd place: Athanasios Tzortzakis- ACG Greece University<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd place: Shaun Correia- American University of Sharjah<\/p>\n\n\n\n Woman\u2019s tennis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st place: Aikaterini Afroditi Manta- ACG Greece University<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd place: Lea Taleb- Lebanese American University- Jbeil<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd place: Serena Joseph- Lebanese American University- Jbeil Participating Teams:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n AUB – American University in Beirut <\/p>\n\n\n\n LAU Beirut – Lebanese American University, Beirut<\/p>\n\n\n\n LAU Jbeil – Lebanese American University, Jbeil<\/p>\n\n\n\n ACG Greece – American College of Greece, Greece<\/p>\n\n\n\n AUS – American University of Sharjah<\/p>\n\n\n\n CUD – Canadian University in Dubai<\/p>\n\n\n\n AUD – American University in Dubai <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bocconi University Italy <\/p>\n\n\n\n CUS Statale Milano University Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tor Vergata University Rome Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n JAM Sports Academy AUD athletes scored big last week at the annual International Athletics Tournament held on the campus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4947,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mbrsc.aud.edu\/MBRSCPost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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