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UNAIR Student Regiment Wins 2nd Place of Crossfield Competition in Indonesia

UNAIR NEWS – Student Activity Unit (UKM) Universitas Airlangga continuously make achievements. The last one was made by Student Regiment (Menwa) on ‘Basic Agility Competition 2018’. There were 3 categories, orienteering, obstacles and cross-field and academic tests, the student regiment delegation got second place for cross-field category in the national championship. A team of Imam Fatoni and Ani Fathurohmah from S1 Anthropology 2016, FISIP and Abdul Manab from S1 Islamics Economics 2017 FEB.

The competition was organized by Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta. Imam Fantoni as Head of Education and Training Affairs explained the encouragement to follow the competition was for achievement and pride to family, unit, and university. The encouragement made the delegates practice more intensively 14 days before the competition.

“The intensive preparation for the competition is running daily at least 3 KM, balance training, longmarch drill less than 20 km, and learning about compass, Indonesian history, psychological test, and academic test on student regiment,” Toni explained.

Before leaving for the competition, there were some obstacles. There were still facilities needed for the training conducted. There is no proper facility for obstacle training and lack of compass for orienteering. Not only during preparation, there were also obstacles during the competition.

Fantoni explained, for three days they participated in draining competition because of the difficult terrain dehydrates them more easily. But these obstacles do not stop their resolve.

“All activities can be faced by building mentality, training with existing facilities, and motivating ourselves to continue working, to bring pride to our alma mater, UNAIR,” added Fantoni.

At the end, Fantoni hoped that in the Student Regiment UKM in the future can make more achievements for the alma mater, both national and international arena. .

“There are still some competitions that we can follow like Napaktilas, Crossfield, Obstacle Race, and Marathon,” said Fantoni.

Author: Hilmi Putra Pradana

Editor: Nuri Hermawan