NPUST’s president, Chin-Lung Chang, and Physical Education Department director, Hsiu-Ching Lin, came out to show their support for NPUST’s athletes at the opening ceremony of this year’s National Intercollege Athletic Games, which were held at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan from April 25th to May 2nd (2025). NPUST sent a total of 13 teams to the games this year to compete in swimming, badminton, table tennis, tennis, judo, taekwondo, wrestling, karate, woodball, cycling, gymnastics and kayaking. The teams were made up of 110 outstanding athletes, who went to give it their all and win glory for their school. Athletes from various sports teams performed outstandingly in the competition, taking 5 golds, 4 silvers, 6 bronzes and another 28 placings in the fourth to eighth place range. Based on the total number of medals won, NPUST’s ranked 24th among all 140 participating colleges and universities.
Before the opening ceremony began, NPUST had already won 1 silver medal in general women’s karate thanks Ying-Hui Lin, a sophomore student from the Department of Recreation Sports and Health Promotion. The next day, Yen-Ju Lin from the Department of Aquaculture and Ya-Hsuan Lan and Ting-An Hsueh from the Department of Recreation Sports and Health Promotion won the first gold medal for the school in the general women’s taekwondo poomsae team category. On the same day, Ting-An Hsueh won bronze in general women’s individual taekwondo poomsae. On top of these, the taekwondo team also achieved 2 fifth places and 1 seventh place results.
Representing the judo and wrestling team, Yi-Hsien Chen from the Department of Biomechatronics won his second consecutive championship in general men’s sixth-level judo, and Yu-Sheng Peng from the Department of Tropical Agriculture came runner-up in general men’s third-level freestyle wrestling. The team also achieved 1 seventh place result in general women’s third-level freestyle judo.
Paired together for the first time on the woodball team, freshman Tsai-Hsieh Lin and sophomore Yao-Yi Yang of Department of Recreation Sports and Health Promotion won a gold medal in the general men’s woodball doubles competition. The woodball team also had 1 fifth place, 2 sixth places and 1 seventh-place results.
The track and field team won 1 gold, 1 bronze, 3 fifth places, 2 sixth places and 1 seventh place results. Po-Chung Huang the Department of Biomechatronics successfully defended his title in the for the general men’s pole vault competition for a third time in a row, and Ming-Ju Wu from the Department of Recreation Sports and Health Promotion won bronze in the 800-meter general men’s race. Unable to secure a medal in his first three years at NPUST, Wu worked hard to balance his studies and time on the field this year so that he was finally able take home a medal from the National Games.
The cycling team was led by Hsi-Jui Chou, a freshman in the Department of Recreation Sports and Health Promotion. He won 1 silver in the open men’s points race, came fifth in the individual pursuit race, and sixth in the tempo race. In the points race, he managed to stage a brilliant comeback by pulling up from fourth position to second in one swift breath, thus securing the silver. It was an outstanding performance for the school.
The elite trio on the swimming team included Jing-Mei Huang from the Department of Agribusiness Management, Wen-Ling Liu from the Department of Industrial Management, and Chan-Chun Yang from the Department of Recreation Sports and Health Promotion. In all, they won 2 bronze medals, 1 fourth place, 2 sixth places and 1 seventh place. As all three will be graduating this year, it was a very special honor for them to make their mark before leaving the school.
This year the badminton team included two active professional athletes; namely, Ciou-Tong Tung and Yi Ting Hung. The student-athletes were able secure one silver and one bronze in the women’s singles, and in their first partnership they were able to win another bronze in the women’s doubles.
The table tennis competition was the longest-running of the lot, with a high-intensity schedule that officially began on April 25th with the open group. By the last day of the competition, on May 2nd, the NPUST team was able to take home 1 gold and 4 fifth places. The general men’s group fought hard from the preliminaries on through to the final contest, ending with a 3-hour battle in which the NPUST team ultimately prevailed to win the championship for a second year in a row.
NPUST expressed its gratitude to all its team members for boldly facing the strong competition and for achieving such brilliant results for themselves and for the school. The university is also grateful to the teachers and its president for supporting the athletes and enabling them to hone their skills and set new records for the university in competitive sports.
