DEWA ATHENA

          Dewa Athena. Weird name isn’t it? It is the name of sport competitions in 3 senior high school. This competition is held by OSIS and every 10^th and 11^th graders must participate. There are many sports to compete in.

            Basically, how we do this is every class must send their own teams to compete in every single sport. The winner will continue on competing until they found who the winners are.

            Dewa Athena is held to increase the student’s interest and their fitness by doing any kind of sports. There are many sports starting from modern world wide sports, until traditional sports.

            The event is held every year. Usually near the 12^th graders exam time. This year, 2017, Dewa Athena is held for approximately 3 weeks in every Saturday of the week. We must go to school to participate in this sport event because if we don’t there will be consequences such as bad grades (because they do rollcall) and fine. Literally, every time our class do not show up for the competition, they will charge us IDR100.000. I know, crazy. But it’s just how 3 Senior High School is.

            Despite all of the unpleasant things (not really) I mentioned above, there are some importance in this event. Dewa Athena really do Increase our interest in sport. It definitely helps us show our potential in sport or just simply channel our energy to a positive track. Because our school is known for the “study hard” thing, which is true, so this event is a really good place to express yourself more. It also builds our teamwork more. We become more solid by this because there are a lot, and I mean A LOT of teamwork needed in this event. We try hard to win, but we also try to have as much fun as we can.

            Like I said, we participate by playing sports. But, what kind of sports? We participate in Male Basketball, Female Futsal, Volleyball, Male Futsal, Male Doubles Badminton, Female Double Badminton, Male Dodgeball, Female Dodgeball, Gobak Sodor, and Tug of War (Tarik Tambang).

            So we have to have teams for each sports. All of the sports above is actually really exciting. Even if you have never done any of it, once you get In to it, you’ll find your adrenaline rushing because of the excitement. I think we should have more sport events like this because this is great in every aspect.