Youth Care Activities
The history
of sport activity
in
Cairo University
abounds in achievements, championships and first
ranks won in university youth weeks and in all final competitions.
Cairo University
supported these activities by establishing the sport village, which includes playgrounds
in which university students can practise all sport activities.
Some principal aims were taken into consideration while setting the plans for sport
activity management, such as:
·
Spreading out sports concepts which support the morals
and values of positive, honorable competition, and that practicing in sports is
not limited to professionals. Only but it is for everyone to attain physical fitness
and remain in good health.
·
Widening the circle of sports practitioners through activating internal competitions
between colleges and other external Arab and Egyptian universities, and also through
competition with different clubs and sport institutions.
·
Observing the variety and frequency of those to cover the whole academic years,
and to include the greatest number of practitioners who profit from the sports programs.
Internal
activity is represented in:
·
University tournament in team sports: football – basketball – volleyball – handball
– hockey.
·
University championships in single sports: track and field – swimming – table tennis
– squash – boxing – wrestling – karate – judo – taekwondo - weight lifting - bodybuilding
– shooting.
External
activity is represented by the following:
·
Egyptian Universities Championship.
·
President Cup for Football.
·
President Cup for Volleyball.
There are
also a lot of sports training centers in the different faculties distributed as
follows:
-
Sport Center
of Faculty of Commerce includes gymnastic
hall
and a
table tennis hall.
- Sport Center
of Faculty of Science includes a table
tennis hall.
-
Sport Center
of Faculty of Veterinary includes a gymnastic hall.
-
Sport Center
of Faculty of Nursing includes a gymnastic
hall.
-
Sport Center
of Faculty of Medicine contains playgrounds, swimming pools, a gymnastic hall and
a table tennis hall.
-
Sport Center
of Faculty of Agriculture includes playgrounds for football, basketball and volleyball,
in addition to a swimming pool, a gymnastic hall and a table tennis hall.
-
Sport Center
of Faculty of Engineering includes playgrounds, a swimming pools a gymnastic hall
and a table tennis hall.
There is
also sports city in which all sports are practised and supervised by qualified coaches.