LUMS hosted the Women’s League 2016, organised by the Department of Sports, Wellness and Recreation in collaboration with student society, Sports at LUMS (SLUMS). The mega sports event included nine sports: athletics, badminton, basketball, cricket, futsal, netball, table tennis, volleyball and hockey. Female athletes from colleges and universities including LSE, UoL, FAST, COMSATS and FCC participated in the event.
This year, the ideology behind the Women’s League was ‘women empowerment.’ Hence, SLUMS planned the sports event to encourage girls to participate and invited 60 underprivileged girls from a public high school run by an NGO. These girls were given personal grooming and sports training sessions; for the personal grooming sessions, LUMS faculty members were engaged and the sports training was given by SLUMS members. At the end of women’s league these students had a small competition in a few sports such as athletics, badminton and throwball.
