{"id":2645,"date":"2026-05-13T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2026-05-13T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:49:20","slug":"congrats-to-the-su-awards-medway-26-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/05\/13\/congrats-to-the-su-awards-medway-26-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to the SU Awards Medway &#8217;26 winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A massive congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the SU Awards at Medway:<\/p>\n<h3>Societies<\/h3>\n<h4>Academic Society of the Year<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: MPSA<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Biomedical Science<\/li>\n<li>Paramedic Science<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Best New Society<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: African &amp; Caribbean Society\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\u200b\n<ul>\n<li>Biomedical Science<\/li>\n<li>Indian Student Society<\/li>\n<li>Colouring Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Outstanding Contribution to Societies<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Glory Folaranmi &#8211; MPSA &amp; Cheer<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Redwan Rafid Riza &#8211; Asian Student Union<\/li>\n<li>Rayhan Hafiz &#8211; Islamic Society<\/li>\n<li>Saiteja Vaidgula &#8211; Indian Student Society<\/li>\n<li>Salman Ahmed &#8211; Asian Student Union &amp; Bangladeshi Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Society of the Year<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Asian Student Union<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>PENSA Church of Pentecost<\/li>\n<li>Rocksolid Christian Fellowship<\/li>\n<li>Islamic Society<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Sports<\/h3>\n<h4>Outstanding Contribution to Sport<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Max Tsiquaye &#8211; Men&#8217;s Basketball\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Rebecca Miller &#8211; Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/li>\n<li>Konstantin Schmidt &#8211; Volleyball<\/li>\n<li>Ashok Mulagada- Medway Mavericks Cricket<\/li>\n<li>Isaac Oppong Jr &#8211; Men&#8217;s Basketball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Club of the Year<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Volleyball<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/li>\n<li>Climbing<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s Basketball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Team of the year<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Men&#8217;s Basketball<\/li>\n<li>Men&#8217;s Volleyball<\/li>\n<li>Women&#8217;s Volleyball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Sportsperson of the year<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Suchanya Lackhom &#8211; Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Daelynn Richards &#8211; Women&#8217;s Basketball<\/li>\n<li>Jins Mathew &#8211; Volleyball<\/li>\n<li>Konstantin Schmidt &#8211; Volleyball<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Open to all<\/h3>\n<h4>Student Group Event of the Year<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Navrang &#8211; Asian Student Union<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Iftar Night &#8211; Islamic Society<\/li>\n<li>Kottu Night &#8211; Sri Lankan Society<\/li>\n<li>Couples Q&amp;A &#8211; Rocksolid Christian Fellowship<\/li>\n<li>International Mother Language Day Celebration &#8211; Asian Student Union &amp; Bangladeshi Society<\/li>\n<li>Boat Party &#8211; MPSA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Campaign of the Year<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WINNER: Charity Fundraising &#8211; Islamic Society\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Shortlisted nominees:\n<ul>\n<li>Night Life &#8211; Indian Student Society<\/li>\n<li>Merch Design &amp; Sales &#8211; MPSA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehubmedway.co.uk\/groups\/suawardsmedway\/\">The Hub SU Awards page<\/a> as well as photos from the night on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?vanity=TheHubMedway&amp;set=a.979235097800098\">facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A massive congratulations to all the winners and nominees of the SU Awards at Medway: Societies Academic Society of the Year WINNER: MPSA Shortlisted nominees: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2026\/05\/13\/congrats-to-the-su-awards-medway-26-winners\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40853,"featured_media":2646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[312383,309363,312219,312220],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40853"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2647,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions\/2647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}