Royal Badminton gets IMC AIC Campus sponsorship

IMC-AIC Campus has joined Royal College Badminton Association as the sponsor for the Year 2023/2024. For the first time in history, IMC-AIC Campus is collaborating with one of the leading national schools in Sri Lanka in enriching a game. Similarly, Royal College also received sponsorship for the first time from a Campus to support a sports association. To mark this occasion, IMC-AIC Campus recently hosted a media briefing to raise awareness among stakeholders throughout the country.

Badminton has emerged as a keenly contested game amongst schools today. Badminton helps improve a student’s agility, quick sense of thinking and fast movements. Badminton at the Royal College started along with Table Tennis around 1945 as a ‘lunch hour game’ as a part of the Indoor Games Club.

“Due to the enthusiasm and rich history behind this game at the Royal College, IMC-AIC Campus wanted to secure the value addition by being the one and only sponsor for the Royal College Badminton Association,” IMC-AIC Campus said in a statement.

“Moreover, the presence of Royalists in the director board, and the management of IMC-AIC Campus led the way to build up the emotional bonding. On top of that, in the past IMC Education placed royal college students in renowned overseas medical universities, and created a fabulous career pathway to those students.”

At the launch, Royal College officials; R.M.M. Ratnayake (Principal), Chavinka Sumanathilake (Chairman, Badminton Advisory and Management Committee), A.S. Bimalka (Secretary School Development Society), Hiran Wimalaratne (Secretary Royal College Union), and the IMC-AIC officials; Dharangan Bakthaseelan (Executive Director | Director of Finance), Gishan Sumanasiri (Executive Director | CEO), Amila B Kulatunga (Deputy CEO), Inthikab Zufer (COO), pledged to work in cohesion to dish out a smooth school badminton season, while also looking seriously at the development of the game at grassroots level.

Thus, Royal College badminton players are eligible for scholarships on placement fees for overseas medical studies and course fee of AIC programme.