The ‘Universitaire sport centrum’, USC for short, broadened its martial arts offer! This year, USC opened a boxing school for all kinds of people who are passionate or eager to learn boxing and kickboxing.
The project started this October as a result of a collaboration between USC and the Amsterdam Municipality, which reached an agreement to lend space for 8 years to the gym, with the goal to create a community hall for youth.
Mick, an employer at Universitair Sportcentrum (USC), walked 60.7 kilometres from Amsterdam to the International Court of Human Justice in The Hague in solidarity with Ukrainian refugees. Mick did not actually go to The Hague though, he completed the walk on a USC treadmill. With this, Mick raised 2600 euros for the charity organisation Giro 555.
Amsterdam University College's female football team just participated in a tournament in Paris! What is this team and how did they do? Well, this team consists of university students enthusiastic about football and spoiler alert: they won it, beating four other university teams.
You’re probably busy enough just passing all your classes, but there are UvA students scoring goals at World Cups. Need some inspiration? Noor de Baat is full of it. De Baat is a midfielder of the national Dutch hockey team U21 that is currently playing a World Cup in South Africa. The team just made it to the quarter-finals! De Baat normally has four of five training sessions per week, next to two strength training sessions. On top of that, she is doing her bachelor’s. Want to know how she managed to juggle all those balls? Keep on reading.
Next week it will finally start: the Olympic Winter Games of 2022! Two weeks full of winter sports in Beijing, China. We spoke about it with former long track speed skater and UvA alumnus Marrit Leenstra. ‘These games are going to be very different from the games in 2018’, shares the medal-winning athlete.
Sports physician Liesbeth Lim visited European championships, world championships and world cups with the national gymnastics team, accompanied well-known synchronized swimmers Noortje and Bregje de Brouwer to the Olympics and accompanied many more big names like Yuri van Gelder. Next to that, she stays active: “I dance, I could do a split for you right now! I also do fitness, running and acrobatics.” And that versatile doctor is walking around at USC!
The USC (Universitair Sport Centrum) which serves as the sports venue of the University of Amsterdam, has recently introduced a new online platform. The USC claims that this platform aims to give their site a fresh new look and replace their platform in need of a change.
Next year, the FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar. As known by some and ignored by others, the choice of location has caused quite some uproar. What do UvA-students think about the location of the upcoming World Cup? We decided to ask our readers.
Uttering the combination of the words “light saber fencing” and “sport” may make one wonder and utter something that goes in the lines of “That’s a thing?” Apparently, it is and is here to stay!
You’ve arrived in Amsterdam, congratulations! This is the best city in the world, with the best football team in the world. Just ask 1995. Ajax, Jaxie, 020, Joden, or Godenzonen: if you live in Amsterdam, you support Ajax. As for your hazing as a freshly new Ajacied, here’s a list of things to do.