Despite the budget drowning for which he is going through and the recent veto to the University Financing LawThe National University of Comahue continues to bet on the integral training of the 35,612 students in the 17 academic units, distributed in the provinces of Río Negro and Neuquén. Tomorrow the interfaculty sports games start, which will have 12 disciplines in which students will set aside the courses and exams to join a different encounter in peers.
The tournament will start tomorrow from 9 in the sports center “El Escondido”, Located on the Central Campus of the House of High Studies, with the first Futsal match. These games return to the university field after being suspended for more than 10 years. In 2024 they resumed with the participation of 800 students enrolled in different disciplines and this year redouble the bet with 1,200 university students challenging in 12 disciplines. The meeting will be held in two venues: the headquarters of the UNCO and the Municipal Stadium of the city of Cipolletti and will end Sunday with the awards ceremony to the winners.
Each academic unit will be represented by one or more equipment that will compete on courts or game tables, in athletics, bádminton, basketball, futsal, handball, hockey, swimming, rugby, tabley volley tennis. Chess alternatives will also be added to competitive alternatives.
The University went out to look for funds and sponsors to be able to solve the expenses of transfers, refreshments and sports clothing for sports students because there was no other way to recover this space. «Resources are outside the university because there are no internal resources for the adjustment of the government and because Nation does not have everything that has to do with sports development in its radar. With the external contributions we could gather in the same place to students of the 17 academic units, from Bariloche to Viedma, San Antonio and from the entire high valley », Alejo Simonelli, Secretary of University Welfare of the UNCO said.
He also highlighted the importance of adding this type of activities to strictly academic life. «These games are sports but also They are a social and recreational space that students have. Sports practice It is part of the rights that students have to exercise university citizens. As a public university we have to ensure that they can have a place to come to eat, so the university dining room. We have to guarantee accommodation with the residences for those that comes from other places; The scholarships offered to accompany the trajectories and also the sports part that was relegated, ”he added.
On the other hand, the Secretary of Welfare considered that these sports spaces contribute to the construction of belonging to a place of training, to a university. «Boys in these events empower that university is not only an academic unit, but it is much more. That is what we always try to hold. ANDSto must be defended and much more at the moment, in this context of definance, of the veto to the University Financing Law. We think we have to do these actions and start from the action claiming the financing you need. You have to go out to show what we do public universities, ”he said.
A podium for each sport
Badminton. For the first time this discipline adds to the interfaculthe sports games. The matches will be held on Saturday, 12 to 17, at the Municipal Sports Complex of Calle Saavedra 190, Cipolletti.
Chess. This time the number of registered students exceeded the expectations of the organizers. The players will battle tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday from the early hours of the morning until 17. The headquarters will be the Hall of the Superior Council of the UNCO, located in Buenos Aires 1400 in the city of Neuquén.
Athletics. For lovers of this discipline, the province of Neuquén made available the professional track, located in the sports city of the city of Neuquén, in Anaya and Lanín. The competitions will be played on Saturday, from 10 to 13.
Basquet It will have two venues. The masculine will be played in the Municipal Sports Complex of Cipolletti and the female in the Pet 3 gymnasium in the Gregorio Álvarez neighborhood of the capital. All activities will take place from Friday to Sunday.
Esports. The Blue Hall of the UNCo will be the headquarters of perhaps the most anticipated competition. The video game games will be Saturday’s feeling from 10 and on that court they will “see the pingos.”
FutSal. It is the discipline that registered the most registered in these interfaculty sports games. The teams will compete in the gymnasium “The hidden” of the headquarters of the UNCO and in sports complex of the school 2 of the city of Neuquén and will do so during the three days that the tournament lasts.
Handball. Cipolletti will be the headquarters of this discipline. The matches of both categories will be played in the Municipal Sports Complex of Cipolletti and in the Municipal Gymnasium, United Nations 1656.
Hockey. The teams of the Faculties of Engineering, Medical Sciences and Education Sciences, reinforce training to go to the court on Friday and Saturday on the University Sports Center.
Christmas. The Cipolletti club will host this discipline in which students will compete on Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Rugby. Saturday will be the big day for the rugby triangular that will be held on the Barra court, in the University Sports Center. The matches will be held from 9 to 14.30.
Table tennis. The Municipal Sports Complex of Cipolletti, known in the region as the “the former Corpofrut property”, will receive on Saturday at table tennis from 9 and until the end of the series.
Volley. Volleyball is one of the most popular disciplines in university sport. During the three days of the tournament, volleyball will be played in fenenine and male categories. in the Municipal Sports Complex of Cipolletti.
