On 4th August, 2014, “The Guardian” had published an article exposing a thesis that sports can improve the academic performance. According to the quoted research of the International Journal of History of Sport, student athletes not only would get better grades but also would acquire the senses of perseverance, motivation and stress relief capabilities while facing the academic pressure.
Such values are commonly noticeable and achievable when competing in sports, making us students learn to manage expectations, acquire teamwork skills and seeking high standard results in work or study. Therefore, we may consider sport as a catalyst of character building and structuring.
Knowing these principles, my intentions as a Sports Officer are:
- to provide the University’s sport clubs and their student athletes the conditions for their proper training;
- help the clubs to compete at local, national and international levels;
- help students who detain top-level athlete status know their rights towards the academic community;
- support and encourage students to create more sport clubs in many modalities as possible;
- propose social events to promote any of these clubs;
- last but not least, to make every interested student enjoy university’s sports and their environment. Life’s too short not to do so!