{"id":5355,"date":"2025-09-29T11:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T07:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:49","slug":"sports-battle-of-the-colleges-to-start-sept-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2025\/09\/29\/sports-battle-of-the-colleges-to-start-sept-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports &#8216;Battle of the Colleges&#8217; to start Sept. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Joory Ward<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah is hosting what<br>has become an annual \u201cBattle of the Colleges Sports Tournament,\u201d with preliminaries<br>scheduled to start next week and finals set for next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUS\u2019s colleges will compete in 14 different sports including volleyball, basketball,<br>powerlifting, swimming, chess and tennis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All will feature men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams except cricket, in which only men\u2019s teams will<br>participate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each team is allowed one alumnus\/alumna and one staff or faculty member.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament will take place at AUS\u2019s sports facilities. Preliminary matches will be<br>held Sept. 29 and 30 to select the best teams from each college. Finals will be held Oct 9. The events start at 5 p.m. each night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students, staff, faculty, and and alumni are encouraged to attend the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline to register to play was Sept. 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"9\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Joory Ward UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 The American University of Sharjah is hosting whathas become an annual \u201cBattle of the Colleges Sports Tournament,\u201d with preliminariesscheduled to start next week and finals set for next month. AUS\u2019s colleges will compete in 14 different sports including volleyball, basketball,powerlifting, swimming, chess and tennis. All will feature men\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-5355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}