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Clubs & Society

Among the functions of the Student Services Office, is that of encouraging the establishment and facilitating the functioning of the students’ Clubs and Societies on campus, according to the High Flyers Manual. The LUCT Lesotho supports student initiatives and is devoted to nurturing leadership skills and team work. There are currently 11 clubs and 7 societies on campus to date.

Most of the clubs have participated at different levels both locally and internationally, both yielding amazing resulting and raking in numerous medal and awards.

List of clubs and societies available

• LUCT Tennis Club
• LUCT Hip-Hop Dance Club-AKA Physix
• LUCT Basketball Club
• LUCT Volleyball Club
• LUCT Netball Club
• LUCT Table-Tennis Club
• LUCT Football Club
• LUCT Rotary Club
• LUCT Choral Club
• Eagles Cricket Club
• Limkokwing University Baseball
• Softball Club
• LUCT Theatre Club

These are the Societies that are in the university:

• LUCT Human Resource Management Students Society
• LUCT Students Christian Fellowship
• LUCT Debating Society
• LUCT Lesotho Voluntary Student Association (LEVOSA) Society
• Seventh - day Adventist student Movement abbreviated (SDASM)
• The Journal
• Youth Chamber of Business And Link Society/li>
• LUCT Human Resource Management Students Society

These are the Coaches

Name	Surname	Club Coached	Non-Staff/Staff Volunteer
Mr Potlaki	Seutloali	Basketball	No-staff Volunteer
Mr. Ramafahla	Thamae	Netball	LUCT Staff
Mr.Mots’oants’i	Moluoane	Football	LUCT Student
Mr. Bataung	Morakabi	Netball	LUCT Student
Mr. Rethabile	Lelisa	Table-Tennis	LUCT Staff
Mr. Chaka	Mokhele	Tennis	LUCT Student

Local Competitions

The Lesotho University and Colleges Sports Association (LUCSA) is an association that organizes annual competitions among the 14 higher educations institutions in Lesotho, of which Limkokwing University is a member. This year in March, to celebrate Moshoeshoe’s day (a day in which the nation commemorates the founder of the nation king Moshoeshoe I), the association organized ball games and track events for both men and women. Basketball Club at the same time was also part taking in the national basketball league.

Results

1. Tennis won a Golden Floating Trophy in both Men and women in the charts
2. Table-Tennis won Silver Medals in team events
3. Netball won Bronze Medals
4. Basketball men’s team won Bronze Medal and the women’s team won the silver.
5. Volleyball won Bronze Medals both men and women
6. As for Athletics, in Hundred Meters, Lebona Bataung won bronze medal with the time of: 11:75, while in Short-put Tanki Makara won Bronze Medal with the Distance of: 9.65m.
7. Our football club was knocked out in the quarter finals, despite their great efforts. But not all was lost, 3 of our players were selected in the national team that represented Lesotho in the games that were later held in Botswana in July 2010. Proving the team’s exceptional skill.

In the previous year at the same competition, 85.7%of the clubs won the medals. This included the Golden trophy by the Tennis Club. We won Gold in the female category by the hand of Nthabiseng Nqosa. In the men’s singles we brought home Gold and Silver by the hand of Chaka Mokhele and Bataung Makhutla respectively. This was indeed a result of hard work from our players and the coaches.

International Competitions

LUCSA is a member of the Confederation of University and Colleges Sports Association (CUSA), which is an association for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries. The CUCSA holds a biennial tournament and for 2010, it was held in Botswana in July from the 4th to the 10th. This was the 15th CUCSA games, and marked the 20th Anniversary.

The LUCSA games held in March earlier this year were used to select the preliminary national teams that would be used to compete with the counterpart national teams at the university and college levels from all SADC countries.

At this even representing their country were 11 of our very own.

Basketball Club	Moleboheng Mokotjo, Relebohile Lebatla, and Sebolelo Rammoneng
Tennis Club	Chaka Mokhele, Bataung Makhutla and Nthabiseng Nqosa
Football Club	Bataung Lebona, Pali Ts’along and Ramatsoso Mopeli,
Volleyball Club	Limpho Pitso and Selupe Seboko

Lesotho held the fifth Position at the end of that tournament, with the Gold medal coming from our student Nthabiseng Nqosa,in the Mixed Doubles category, after beating South Africa. Furthermore, Nthabiseng Nqosa with her wonderful tennis and her impressing profile, managed to qualify for the 2010 Common Wealth Games held in Delhi, India, representing Lesotho.

Upcoming Events

Club	Activity
Basketball	Mohale Molapo Invitation Tournament participants from South Africa, Botswana, and Swaziland) A week after Independence (4th October), whereby registration is payable by 15th September 2010.
Tennis	Lesotho Open Tournament, annually in October, but this year due to the Common wealth Games, has been postponed to December
Netball	League from January-July and from October-December at Thaba-Tseka District South Africa Tournament in Johannesburg in December
All Clubs that won Medals in 2009 and 2010	Awarding Ceremony for clubs that obtained medals in the LUCSA 2009 and 2010 LUCSA Tournaments, as well as in CUCSA 2010 in October