Department of Physical Education

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION

In last few decades sports have gained tremendous popularity all over the globe. The popularity of the sports is still increasing at a fast pace and this happy trend is likely to continue in the future also. Sports serves vital social and cultural functions the importance of which can hardly be exaggerated. The contribution of sports towards the overall welfare of the human society is through all round development of human personality. Keeping in mind the aims, organizations and means of sports activities the sports are classified into several areas e.g. performance sports, physical education, rehabilitation sports, fitness and leisure sports, adventure sports etc. Each area of sports caters to the requirements and demands of a particular section of the society.The area of performance sports has gained much more publicity and importance than the other areas. It has its own structure and organization, cadre of functionaries and a science which exclusively deals with this area.

Physical Education is accepted worldwide in education curriculum starting from playgroup to P.G. Physical Education is one of the optional subjects in social science faculty. Physical Education not only helps in achieving physical fitness but it also helps in the emotional and social development of the individual.

Physical Education Department
  • Department of Physical Education was established in the year 1963.
  • Since then department of Physical Education is catering the needs of the college students in the field of sports.
  • College has a specious Indoor gymnasium hall of 6000 Sq.Feet where wooden Badminton courts and Table –Tennis facilities are made available for the students.
  • Beside these, Chess, Carrom and Gymnastics facilities are also available for the students.
  • College has outdoor play field of 90 X 60 Sq. Meter which is restricted for the outdoor sports facilities like, Cricket, Volleyball, Athletics, Football, Kabaddi, Kho-Kho.
  • Intra-Institutional Sports event “Krida Mohatsav”.
  • District level Inter School Sports festival called ‘Marathwada Mukti Sansram Krida Mohatsav.’
  • Short term certificate course in ‘Yogic Sciences.’
  • Track –Suit for the National and Inter-University level Participants.
  • Expertized technical coaching to the players.
  • UG Course - 1963-1964

  • Prof. Mohd. Harun - 1970-2006
  • Mr. Anant Neralkar - Ranaji Cricket player
  • Mr. Uday Pandya - National Kho-kho player
  • Mr. Prabhu Rapatwar - Inter- University Badminton player
  • Mr. Satish Pathak - Secretary of the Aurangabad District Volleyball Association
  • Dr. Poonam Rathod - National Athletics medalist
  • Dr. Vishal Deshpande - International Gymnast and Shiv Chatrapati Sports Awardee
  • Dr. Shatrunjay Kote - Diploma in Yoga and National Gymnast and Martial Art player.
  • Dr. Archana Giri - Diploma in Yoga and State level Volleyball player
Name Sports Achievements
Jonthy RhodesCricketInternational cricket player of South Africa
Dhanraj PilleHockeyOlympian and International player, captain of Indian Hockey team
Kaka PawarWrestlingOlympian, International wrestler and Shiv Chatrapati Awardee.
Ashok KumarVolleyballInternational player and captain of Indian Volleyball team.
Dattu BhoknalRowingOlympian, International player and Comman wealth games medalist.
Nitin GhorpadeMarathon RunnerIronman
Sudhir JoshiGymnasticsShiv Chatrapati Awardee
Dr.Makrand JoshiGymnasticsShiv Chatrapati Awardee
Dr.Uday DongreFencingShiv Chatrapati Awardee
Amey JoshiCricketShiv Chatrapati Awardee
Ms. Shweta JadhavCricketShiv Chatrapati Awardee
Sakshi ChitlangeChessShiv Chatrapati Awardee
Rutuja BakshiChessShiv Chatrapati Awardee

College has a glorious history of producing International and National level players. Till date college has produced 10 Shiv Chatrapati Award winning playersin spite of the busy day long academic schedule of the practicals and the theory lectures of the single faculty science college.‘Shiv Chatrapati’ award is the highest award instituted by Government of Maharashtra for the excellence in the sports field. This award is given to the elite sports personswho represents the state at national, international sports competition.

Name Game Year Photo
Amruta ZawarGymnastics1996-1997
Vishal DeshpandeGymnastics2000-2001
Rutuparna KulkarniBadminton2004-2005
Amey JoshiGymnastics2006-2007
Tarak DasGymnastics2008-2009
Kartikee ShiradkarGymnastics2011-2012
Sarvesh BhaleGymnastics2012-013
Esha MahajanGymnastics2015-2016
Harshada NithveShooting2017-2018
Amey JoshiGymnastics Coach2017-2018