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Discover all the sports of the Universitat de València through “Via Esportiva”

Success of participation in the course of international certification in kinanthropometry per ISAK

120 students attend the course on the history of Valencia CF at the University

The University organizes the ninth edition of Open Kendo Tournament

The sports bulletin of the University, also in english

The University of Valencia organizes 4 autonomic University Championships

The University teams, with one foot in the cadu finals

Interview

THE CROSS TEAM CONQUEST THE TITLE University of Valencia organized the regional cross championship and climbed to the top of the podium

Yesterday The University of Valencia proclaimed itself as regional champion of Cross after winning the Champion-ship University of Valencia in the bed of the Turia River and organized by the Universitat de València.

In the female category the athlete of the UV, Andrea Salvador Pascual cros-sed the goal line in first place ahead of Laura García (Jaume I University) and Cristina Juan (University of Alicante). Ana March (UV) finished fourth.

In male category Alberto López fi-nished second only beaten by Guillem Adell (Univ Jaume I).

Completing the podium was Javier Colomer (UPV). The participants had to run 6 kms. in four laps in a 1,500 m circuit.

CADU League

On the other hand, the Univer-sity of València will contend on 22 February with the Catholic Univer-sity on the last day of the regional championship of University sport to determine the regional finalists in different modalities.

University of València has already assured his presence in the final in men’s soccer, men’s and women’s basketball and rugby. In addition, during today female football 7 and female rugby teams involved in con-centrations which will decide the fi-nalists could also get classified.

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SUCCESS Of PARTICIPATION IN THE COURSE Of INTERNATIONAL CERTIfICATION IN KINANTHROPOMETRy PER ISAKRegistrati on period is closed. All the places are gone

One more year, the available places to att end the internati onal training course in kinanthropometry to be held from 24 to 26 February 2012 at Tarongers Campus faciliti es have been covered.

The course, organized by the Physical Educati on and Sports Service at the Uni-versity of Valencia through the Athlete’s Support Cabinet, is coordinated by Mi-guel a. Buil, doctor on this cabinet, and directed by the doctor in medicine Fran-cisco Esparza, one of the most promi-

nent specialists of kinanthropometry in Spain, author of numerous arti cles, seve-ral works that are reference in this fi eld, which for years has been head of the Spanish group of Kinanthropometry and simultaneously Spain representati ve on the Internati onal Executi ve Committ ee of the Internati onal Society for the Ad-vancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK).

The Organizati on expects all att endees to have a positi ve course experience, just as in previous editi ons.

DISCOVER ALL THE SPORTS Of THE UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA THROUGH “VIA ESPORTIVA”The program is broadcast online through youTube every week

University Sport also wins a slot within the audiovisual landscape. It’s “Via Esporti va”, a programme to be broadcast each week and which the University Sports will play a leading role.

Four programs have already been broadcast in which kendo, women’s volleyball; taekwondo and rugby 7 were introduced by coaches and athle-tes of the University of Valencia. Every week new disciplines will be reported through YouTube channel of MediaUni and the University of Valencia.

With this new initi ati ve, the Uni-versity of Valencia extends its means to report and spread their acti viti es through another media that adds up to the monthly XanoEsport publica-ti on and the recent additi on of the radio secti on “El temps dels esports” in the program “La Universitat al dia” which broadcasts on MediaUni every Monday.

You can review all the videos on the pages of MediaUni and the physical Servei d’Educació i Esports, Universi-tat de València

www.uv.es/sef

EDUCATION AREA

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120 STUDENTS ATTEND THE COURSE ON THE HISTORy Of VALENCIA Cf AT THE UNIVERSITyThe rector of the University and the President of the Valencia CF Foundation inaugurated this third edition

The third edition of the course History of Valencia CF, organized by the Centro de Formación Fun-dación Valencia Club de Fútbol and the University of Valencia began on Monday, 20 February, with the offi-cial opening in the Philology Faculty, Blasco Ibáñez campus, venue of the sessions until the end of the course on 6th March.

About 120 students enrolled in this edition, in which it was necessary to expand the number of places due to the high demand from students.

The event had the interventions of the rector of the University of Valencia, Esteban Morcillo; the Pre-sident of the Fundació VCF, Társilo Piles; the director of the Physical Education and Sport Service, José Campos, the director of external and institutional relations of the Valencia CF, Jordi Bruixola, and the director of the course, Alfonso Gil, also Profes-sor of Journalism at the University.

Next 18th March Valencia CF will be 93 years since its foundation and 89 years for Mestalla pitch (May 20th), two anniversaries that symbo-lize the importance of the Valencia CF in a sportive, social, economic, fi-nancial and cultural level both in the national and international football. In this sense both Esteban Mor-cillo and Társilo Piles pointed out that both entities “share the city” in which they have a great tradition and prioritize a common objective: to address to the society.

The rector also added that among the pur-

poses of the University not only the provision of services to society

is included but also re-search, and the institu-

tion develops all kinds of sports studies, some of them collaborating with

Valencia CF. Then, Jordi Bruixola stressed the

possibility, which not all the clubs

have, “of studying our history”. For his part, José Campos mentioned also the rise of the female presence in the football world.

For his part, Alfonso Gil referred to the

“footballized society and the need to study the Club and its role in society in order to un-derstand that process”To achieve this goal, the 120 stu-

dents will participate in ten three-hour sessions, under an interdisci-plinary group of teachers made up of university professors, journalists, authors of different essays and pu-blications on the entity, responsible persons in the Club and players.

It is also planned, for those enro-lled, to visit Mestalla and the exhi-bition “Science and sport with Va-lencia FC” hosted by the Sciences Museum of Valencia.

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THE UNIVERSITy ORGANIZES THE NINTH EDITION Of OPEN KENDO TOURNAMENT, THE ANNUAL APPOINTMENT WITH THE JAPANESE fENCING It is nearly the first decade. The Kendo Open at the University of Valencia celebrates this year its ninth edition and stands as well as the annual event that allows fans and the public in general practice or simply know the ins and outs of Japanese fencing, sport and much more, as the kendo involves philosophy, even with an artistic component.

From Friday 24th to Sunday 26th, the Physical Education and Sports Service of the institution organizes the IX Edition of the Open Kendo at the University of Valencia.

The appointment with this oriental practice, both the compe-tition as the specific training workshops (registration only for the last is required) will be held in the University Pavilion (Menéndez y Pelayo, 19). Registration to participate in the Open is already avai-lable and all the information about how to register and detailed information on this quote can be found through the Open blog.

http://kendouv.es/open

“We want society to learn kendo and everything surrounding Japanese culture

and vice versa, therefore, those who are not interested in competing can come to see this oriental practice because admission is free

to the University Pavilion” points out Vicente Soriano, technical coordinator of the Kendo

Open at the University of Valencia since its creation.

It should be noted that the University of Valencia is a pioneer in the practice of kendo, and imparts such activity within its range of leisure and sports since 1995.

Since 1999 the Sport Club of the University of Valencia has one section of kendo to compete.

Once more this event counts on the collaboration of the Ge-neral Consulate of the Japan in Barcelona and is a recommended event in its cultural agenda.

Within the framework of a university exchange agreement, between the University of Waseda (Tokyo) and the University of Valencia (for six years students from both institutions par-

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THE UNIVERSITy Of VALENCIA PARTICIPATED IN THE TECHNICAL WORKSHOP ‘ SPORTS MANAGEMENT IN TIMES Of CRISIS’Registrati on for these sessions, which took place in the sports complex of La Pechina, was free

Antonio Ariño, Vice-Chancellor of Culture, Equality and Planning at the University of Valencia participated in the 13th day Technical Conference on Sports Management in Times of Crisis, which took place on Thursday 26 January day in the sports complex of Pechina.

During the morning session the current scene of the culture and phy-sical activity in Valencian society was treated in order to find new ways of sports management in our economic situation.

This technical conference was ai-med especially at sports managers in both the public and private sectors and technicians. Registration was completely free.

More information on the website

www.gepacv.org

ti cipate in them) for this editi on of the Clinic classes will be taught by YanoSen-sei, 8th Dan Kendo Kyoshi and Shi Han (Professor) of Waseda University, as well as the collaborati on of Takeshita-Sensei, MiyakeSensei, Davis Sensei (7th Dan in Kendo Kyoshi, internati onal re-feree and member of the Briti sh Kendo Associati on), among other prominent instructors and students of Waseda University. These last also parti cipants in the Open.

The competi ti on will be in teams of three parti cipants, with a minimum of two parti cipants. The competi ti on will have two modaliti es: male and female.

THE SPORTS BULLETIN Of THE UNIVERSITy, ALSO IN ENGLISHFrom No. 75, trilingual Xano Esport

From now on the newsletter on sports in the University of Valen-cia may also be read in English. The sports news, that are collected monthly in the digital publication Xano Esport, will be published in English from this number, 75.

From now on, all the news genera-ted by Physical Education and Sports Service and its sportspeople will be published in three languages, which

until now were published in Spanish and Valencian.

The presence of English is part of the bet on the internationalization of the University of Valencia, the second Europe destination preferred by stu-dents within the Erasmus programme.

With this new tool, the Physical Education and Sports Service allows

the University com-munity and the pu-blic in general to be informed about what happens in the sports field of the University of Valèn-cia in all three lan-guages.

Subscription to Xano Esport and all the sports news of the University (activities, access to facilities, courses, special promotions, competitions, etc.) can be done through the web page of the Physical Education and Sports Service, University of Valencia

www.uv.es/sef

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COMPETITION AREA

THE UNIVERSITy Of VALENCIA ORGANIZES AUTONOMIC UNIVERSITy CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CROSS-COUNTRY, ORIENTEERING, TAEKWONDO AND ARCHERyThe University of Valencia will organize during the current course, four regional championships of University Sport (CADU), competi ti ons which consti tute the prelude of the Spanish University Championships, and where the best sportsmen and sportswomen from the seven universiti es of Valencia meet

After exams the competition will return to universities with a tight schedule as they will compete for 23 different sports between February and April.

The University organized the cross-country Championship in the first place, on 15th February. This competition will be followed by orienteering (March 29th) in which the University will become venue and archery (March 3rd) and taekwondo (March 31st).

In any case, dozens of students of the University will be mo-bilized in the coming days to attend these competitions whose organizations are shared by the Valencian universities.

THE UNIVERSITy fOOTBALL, RUGBy AND BASKETBALL TEAMS, WITH ONE fOOT IN THE CADU fINALSSome teams risk the pass to the fi nals on last day

Just one day to the end of the re-gular season of CADU League (regio-nal championship of university sport), the University of València female bas-ketball team leads after beating the University of Alicante yesterday in the Alicante University Pavilion, and their presence and the male football and rugby teams of the University are ensured in the CADU final to be held on 8th March.

The last day of the League before the final, to be held on 22 February, will be critical to the team of men’s basketball, who must win the match to continue with options of qualifying for the finals.

On the other hand, the combined rugby 7 and 7 women’s football will

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participate in a day in format of concentration to obtain the pass to the finals, to be held next Thursday 16th at Uni-versitat Jaume I.

The Universitat de València teams are likely to qualify as both women’s teams lead their respective competitions after the two concentrations that have played to date:

SPORT PLACE Of PLAyRESULT

UA UVEGMale Basketball UA Pavilion 77 66

Female Basketball UA Pavilion 60 74Male Futsal UA Pavilion 3 1

Female Futsal San Vicente Pavilion 11 2Male Football UA pitch 1 1Male Handball Blasco Ibáñez Pavilion 33 32

Female Handball Blasco Ibáñez Pavilion 13 34Male Volleyball South Hall (Aulario Sur) 3 0

Female Volleyball South Hall (Aulario Sur) 3 0Female Volleyball El Saler city 5 17

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INTERVIEWREACHING THE SUMMIT AT 20Arantxa Martí nez is Spain’s fi rst runner-up of aerobic gymnasti cs and is part of the group of University students who parti cipated in the China Universiade

Arantxa stu-dies 3rd year of journalism at the University of Valencia. In his fi nal season, she was fi rst runner-up of Spain sin-gles and twelft h in the European Championship in additi on to ha-

ving parti cipated in the World Cup in Italy, Bulgaria and Portugal.

Questi on: How and when did you begin to compete?

Answer: I started when I was 8, when I enrolled in aerobics as extracurricular ac-ti vity at school, and my coach took me to some school competi ti ons. Later I started to train outside the school and compete at regional and nati onal levels. At age 14, I did my fi rst competi ti on as part of the Spanish selecti on in child category.

Q: what is your dream as a sportswoman?A: my dream is to take the most of

all my possibiliti es, and not to have the feeling that I could have arrived further. I decided not to consider any concrete ob-jecti ve because I noti ced that in this world it is very diffi cult. I look forward to conti -nue working hard and willingly and sooner or later the reward will appear.

Q: there are many university students who do not practi ce any sport, what I would say to encourage them to practi ce aerobics?

A: they should fancy to play any sport, I believe that University life is very easy to combine with other acti viti es. Perhaps Aerobics is not the most suitable sport to practi ce at University, because it should begin very early, but students should dare to play any sport, and to take advantage of all the opti ons that UV off ers in the sports fi eld, I think there are many and varied.

Q: what are the values in a sport such as aerobic gymnasti cs?

A: I think that aerobic gymnasti cs is a very complete sport where strength, fl e-xibility, and great technique is needed. It is also a very arti sti c and colorful sport.

Q: which was the most emoti onal day of your career?

A: I think that the 1st ti me I was Spain champion at 13, and when I got the fi ft h place as individual in the world Champion-ship in Germany 2008.

Q: can you tell us an anecdote about those days in the Universiade?

A: It has been a great experience in ge-neral, since aerobic gymnasti cs is not an Olympic sport, this has been just as living a “miniolimpiada”. Everything has been very exciti ng, sleeping in the Olympic vi-llage, the incredible faciliti es, the fact that it was in China, etc. Something that caught my att enti on was the market on the last days of the competi ti on in the village ex-changing the clothes from diff erent se-lecti ons. In there one can exchange from training suits to backpacks or shoes.

Q: as a member of the Elite program for athletes of the UV, what advantages do you have in your case?

A: in my case I count on a one-year scholarship of € 600, full payment of tui-ti on and free access to the sports facili-ti es, the physiotherapist and sports psy-chologist. I also have the ease of changing exams when I compete in offi cial compe-ti ti ons.

Q: aft er parti cipati ng in the China Uni-versiade what are your expectati ons for this season?

A: in the Universiade we focus in the group category, this year we are prepa-ring the world championship to be held in June in Bulgaria and where I train for the individual category and trio.

Q: the course started with the welcome of the rector, Esteban Morcillo, together with the delegati on of nine stu-dents of the University of Valencia who this summer parti cipa- ted in the Uni-versity Olympics. How did the meeti ng go?

A: it was very nice and exciti ng that the University made a small recogniti on to all of us. I think we all feel confortable and happy to be there, and also for our Univer-sity

to thank us for this.

Q: it is the maximum par-ti cipati on of students of the University of Va-lencia in the most important world competi ti on, the Universiade. All indicati ons are that the students of the University of Valencia have an enviable level.

A: well I think so, I believe that all stu-dents who we have att ended this com-peti ti on is part of the respecti ve Spanish selecti ons, so the level is very high.

Q: what is the key for an academic ins-ti tuti on to have this level?, what contribu-tes in these excellent results?

A: I think that to support and help athletes contributes a lot, and in this case I think that the University off ers many fa-ciliti es, from fi nancial aid, which in mino-rity sports such as mine is necessary, aid for physio or psychologists. Give faciliti es when making exams is also very important for us, because we have many internati o-nal competi ti ons and have to miss quite a lot.

Q: is it diffi cult to combine journalism with competi ti ve sport?

A: the truth is that I have not had any problem to combine journalism with my training sessions, I feel much more comfortable than in my years at High School. Maybe in practi cal degrees there is litt le more complicati ons but nothing to be fail to sett le.

Q: does it involve many sacrifi ces to combine both careers? is it worth it?

A: yes, it entails sacrifi ces, but I am already used to it, I cannot say that I live

University life to the limit, but I sha-re the same ‘day by day’ whith my colleagues wherever I can. The only thing is that I do not have much free ti me, but I believe that with a bit of organizati on, sacrifi ce and desire you can do everything what you want to.