Our Sports area is in charge of programming and coordinating activities, competitions and organizing training courses, in order to provide students and the rest of the university community with all the necessary means to practice sports, such as leisure activities, internal and external competitions whose main purpose is to encourage students to complement their education with the inherent and unquestionable values that sport entails.
Our Mission
Promote the physical, mental and social well-being of the university community through active participation in sports and recreational activities. We seek to promote a healthy lifestyle, the development of athletic skills and team spirit among our students, staff and community members, thus contributing to an integral and enriching university experience.
Our Vision
We envision ourselves as a benchmark of excellence in promoting wellness and physical activity within the university community, creating an environment where each individual finds inspiration, support and opportunities to develop their athletic, personal and academic potential through innovation, quality and inclusion.
From the Sports area we want to be part of your integral formation and for this purpose we offer you the following services and disciplines:
Préstamo de implementos deportivos
Description of the project:
A service implemented for the good use of free time of all the strata of the University of La Guajira, through the realization of recreational and sports activities freely, requesting the spaces and implements in the sports office. These may be carried out for a maximum of 2 hours. Once the session is over, the implements must be returned in the same condition in which they were delivered. Users can practice the following sports: soccer, indoor soccer, basketball, table tennis, chess, volleyball, among others.
Volleyball
Description of the project:
It is a sport in which they will learn the value of cooperation and teamwork. It also develops mental control, balance and concentration, while improving the ability to react, to make quick movements in a short time improving physical control, increases endurance and hand-eye coordination. As it is a collective sport with a high socializing component, it generates a great sense of cooperation and solidarity.
Basketball
Description of the project:
It is a transversal sport that contributes to the integral development of the people who practice it, since it promotes coexistence and sociability, willpower, personal sacrifice, fair play and healthy competitiveness. Basketball is a team sport in which coexistence is fundamental and in which values are the rules for its practice. This discipline develops motor skills, coordination, speed, flexibility, general strength and agility.
Soccer
Description of the project:
Recognized as one of the most popular and practiced sports in the world, even today. A sport seen as a great opportunity to develop emotional bonds and allows the development of other points of view, to put oneself in the other's place, and to create discipline.
Entrenamiento funcional
Description of the project:
It is based on exercises that are adapted to the natural movements of the human body to work globally, muscles and joints. One of its main advantages is that they are completely adapted to the physical conditions of each person, so it is very effective as training.
Taekwondo
Description of the project:
It is a sport that increases cardiovascular endurance and cardio-respiratory balance. In the two minutes that the fights last, you have to give the maximum, your body has to be prepared to alternate periods of maximum intensity in which fast kicks and quick turns are delivered, with others of low intensity.
Cheerleading
Description of the project:
It is an activity that offers spaces to learn and practice the techniques of this sport, in addition to enhancing coordination, stimulating motor skills and improving physical condition, thus allowing the creation of bonds of friendship, companionship, helping from the sport the inclusion of multicultural and gender diversity.
Actividad física musicalizada
Description of the project:
It offers sessions of physical activity with music directed to all the strata of the University of La Guajira, providing them with spaces for healthy recreation that allow them to change the environment and routine attitudes inside and outside the work spaces, in addition, to promote socialization processes, sense of belonging and promote healthy habits and lifestyles.
Athletics
Description of the project:
In order to satisfy the sporting needs of university students, through group and personalized training in the area of athletics, we carry out in a professional and responsible manner in a formative, recreational and competitive way, always with the aim of providing the benefits that come with the practice of this sport, such as: improve your speed, increase your muscle mass and your aerobic and anaerobic capacity among others.
Sports inclusivo
Description of the project:
This discipline favors the integral development of people, who have any disability within the university, belonging to any of our strata, and allows them to cope with their condition showing them new capabilities and skills, facilitating the discovery of new forms of fun, participation and interaction with other competitors and the awakening of their competitive instinct that facilitates the recovery or acceptance of their situation, through the implementation of training and physical activities adapted to the needs of the university population.
Skating
Description of the project:
Like all sports, skating brings benefits to both our physical and internal health. It contributes to improving physical fitness by increasing aerobic endurance, activating blood circulation, strengthening legs, lungs and heart, as well as developing balance, concentration and coordination.
Soccer sala
Description of the project:
We offer you this discipline as a contribution to your sporting, social and personal growth, since through the practice of indoor soccer, you develop skills, creativity, and your physical condition improves. The program is aimed at the entire university population and stimulates motor coordination and good body posture.
Juegos tradicionales
Description of the project:
From Uniguajira we seek to potentiate some useful skills and abilities so that the traditional games that since long ago continue to endure in our memories and customs. In this way, we seek to socialize and gain confidence among our students, while they enjoy their free time, promoting spatial vision and improving their psychomotor skills through traditional games such as: dominoes, frog, shuffleboard, among others.
Tenis de mesa
Description of the project:
It develops the ability to concentrate and helps to make quick decisions under the healthy pressure of wanting to beat the opponent. It is a motivating sport that develops intelligence as it forces the player to try to discern the opponent's game. Table tennis also develops socialization skills and tools, so important in times characterized by individualism.
Tiro con arco
Description of the project:
It is planned, designed and organized to offer participants the alternative of a different, individual and competitive sport. It promotes discipline, the good use of free time, and the strengthening of the integral human being. In addition, to strengthen in its practitioners: concentration, coordination, sociability, physical fitness and to greatly reduce stress levels of those who practice it.
Multiaventura universitario
Description of the project:
To provide different tools for the development of leisure and free time activities: socio-cultural, sports and outdoor activities, taking into account the environment in which they are projected. The objective is to get to surpass oneself and for this, it is necessary the development of physical qualities, motor skills, great general resistance and, above all, a great psychological preparation and social bonds among the participants.
Location
University Welfare Block
University of La Guajira
Riohacha Headquarters
Km 3 + 354 Via Maicao
Contact us now!
Call the office of university social welfare of the University of La Guajira at +57 (605) 7282729 Ext. ? and get the information you need. Our team is ready to assist you and solve all your questions, we are waiting for your call!
