Luis Sergio Garrido
Director
(56-2) 718 2754
The Sports Department is not only looking for male and female champions who show that they are better than their mates. Instead, this Department opens its doors to any student, with or without natural talents, who wants to practice the sport he/she wants, and improve his/her life quality. The Sports Department inculcates the physical activity as a necessary habit to reach a healthy life, and the pleasure of practicing all the sports disciplines the students like.
The Sports Department has three areas of development:
1. Teaching Section
This is the area where the physical activity is practiced formally and systematically in the Sports Courses of the Integral formation. These courses are given in periods of four hours a week and any regular student, who has registered, can attend them. This section offers diverse sports disciplines, given to the student community in 45 courses each Academic Semester, with 30 students per course.
The disciplines offered are: Physical Fitness, Chess, Popular Dances, Basketball, Aerobic Gymnastics, Jazz Gymnastics, Aquatic Gymnastics, Mixed Physical Fitness (Gyms), Football, Judo, Swimming, Physical Preparation with variable endurance, Physical Preparation (outdoor), Tennis, Volleyball and Pilates.
Inquiries: Teacher María Loreto Vallejos, Telephone: (56-2): 718 2753. E-mail: maria.vallejos@usach.cl.
2. Generalized Section
It is the area to organize sports activities of internal kind and free participation, such as the classic baby football championships among schools and other disciplines such as single tennis or volleyball. These are more competitive, and the competition for the Cubs Trophy is an example.
There are also recreational-sports activities, collective or individual; the simultaneous chess is a classic.
The technical assistance is another benefit the Sports Department offers to anyone requiring it. This means the preparation, diffusion, development, control, etc. for activities such as the Cubs Week, the Administrative Clerk Day, or the week of every Career or Faculty.
3. The Elite Sports Section
This is the competitive section of the University. The representatives of our institution are recruited for external, inter-universities, federated and Olympic competitions.
The requirement for those who want to become a member of our selections is to introduce themselves to the corresponding coach and take a technical sufficiency exam, feel all the enthusiasm to complement the studies with the practice of their favorite sport, and represent the University in different regional, national and even international competitions.
Currently, the branches with university and/or federated participation for both women and men are: Mountain Climbing and Sports Climbing, Chess, Basketball, Football, Judo, Karate, Swimming, Volleyball, Table Tennis and Field Tennis. The University Representatives are supported by the University with different benefits: free medical and kinesiologic attention, food scholarship, priority in subjects’ enrollment.
There is also the Scholarship of Sports Excellence which means free university education. To have access to this scholarship, the requirements are: to be a selected national player of a sports branch, to be introduced by the corresponding coach and to belong to a priority sport of the USACH: volleyball, basketball, judo and table tennis.
The USACH also offers a Special Enrollment for Outstanding Sportsmen and Sportswomen. In order to have access to this benefit, the requirements are: to take the PSU (University Selection Test); to be a selected or pre- selected, regional or national, player in some sporting discipline the USACH participates in; to apply for careers the University offers within the first four options; to have the same score or a higher score than the minimum established by the University; and to pass the physical-technical test of sporting performance.
Inquiries: Teacher María Elena Salas, Telephone: (56-2) 718 2751, e-mail: maria.salas@usach.cl
Implementation
Undoubtedly, another fundamental point to practice any physical activity is the infrastructure. The USACH has large sporting complexes located within the University campus. Three football fields, six tennis courts, a front wall, three multipurpose fields, athletics track, two cross and physical fitness areas, a climbing wall, a muscle development and diagnosis room, a chess room, three indoor gyms for collective sports, a muscle development room and a tempered swimming pool. It also has a specially equipped gym for students with some handicap.
