COLLEGE SPORTS LEAGUES IN KERALA
For the first time in India, the Kerala government is going to start professional sports leagues at the college level. Sports & Management Research Institute (SMRI) presented the proposal of the US Model College Sports Leagues at the International Sports Summit Kerala (ISSK 2024).
BEHIND COLLEGE SPORTS LEAGUES
Since 2020, SMRI has been working to start the US Model College Sports Leagues in India. Sijin B T (Founder of SMRI) and Dr Indulekha R wrote a book ‘STUDY IN INDIA: HOW COLLEGE SPORTS CAN CHANGE INDIAN CAMPUS‘ to promote the concept of college sports leagues. This book well describes the college sports leagues in the USA and Canada, and how India can initiate them.
OUR EXPERIMENTS
In 2023-24, SMRI initiated the formation of the College Sports Association to promote college sports leagues in Kerala.
In 2024, SMRI piloted the first-ever Indian College Sports Game Day under the leadership of Raseena Iqbal
