More than 800 people make up the delegation from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG) that will participate in the 2022 National Universiade, which will be hosted by the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juarez (UACJ) from May 13 to June 2.
Of said university delegation, 470 are athletes who will participate in 24 of 26 disciplines in the sports fairaccompanied by their coaches, doctors, methodologists, psychologists, nutritionists and more.
Prior to his trip to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, the General Rector of this House of Study, Dr. Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí, led the university students this Wednesday afternoon on the esplanade of the General Rector’s Office Building.
“They have made us extremely proud.. Last year for the first time we obtained first place in the medal table at the 2021 National Universiade and that is a real source of pride, with 72 gold, 69 silver and 63 bronze medals; this is 214 medals”.
“After more than ten years we had medals in sports such as soccer, in which we obtained silver; softball, silver and volleyball we had bronze; to all those delegations: thank you for returning us to the medal table”.
“We also took first place in badminton, sport climbing, soccer, tennis, kickboxing, weightlifting and table tennis.”, he listed about the achievements of this meeting convened by the National Council for Sports in Education (CONDDE).
He said that the 2022 National Universiade will bring together more than 9 thousand athletes from 150 public and private higher education institutions throughout the country, in which great students will participate who also do double or triple shifts, because in addition to studying and training, they work; therefore, their great effort is to be admired.
The one who received the university flag was Andrea Amaya Becerra, multi-medallist in archery, escorted by Ángela Jazmín Gutiérrez López, in weightlifting; Emmanuel Alexis Benítez Castr, wrestling; Verónica Ángeles Talamantes, athletics; Jacinto Velasco Lozano, climbing, and Luis Armando Montoya Navarro, badminton.
“On behalf of my fellow university students, we are very proud to represent the UdeG in this 2022 edition. We will compete with dignity and honor”, said Andrea Amaya Becerra as part of the sports oath that he enunciated.
The General Coordinator of University Services (CGSU)teacher José Alberto Castellanos Gutiérrez, wished success to the delegation and that they participate with the desire to extract first place again, as in the last edition.
“They already knew what it means to be first place and that adrenaline of desire to succeed helps them compete with impetus, trying to put the name of the UdeG on high and welcome them here in another ceremony to recognize their victory.”
Both Villanueva Lomelí and Castellanos Gutiérrez recognized the effort of the Coordinator of the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of the CGSU, Dr. Georgina Contreras de la Torre and Dr. Juan Ricardo López y Taylor.
Contreras de la Torre announced that the climbing team will not compete in Ciudad Juarez but in Cancun, due to a question of infrastructure to carry out the competitions.
The Head of the High Performance Unit of the Physical Culture Coordination of the CGSU, Mr. Quetzalcóatl Oregel, said that the UdeG will have a presence in all sports disciplines, with the exception of basketball and tenniswhere the athletes failed to qualify.
“The first to go into activity will be the judo, indoor volleyball and soccer teams. We have good expectations, they are well prepared. Unfortunately we haven’t had much opportunity to analyze the rivals, but the goal is to place ourselves in the first two places”, he indicated.
The competition program includes the disciplines of chess, athletics, basketball, badminton, baseball, university boxing, fencing, association football, soccer, aerobics, handball, judo, karate do, university wrestling, weightlifting, taekwondo, tennis, rugby sevens, archery, tochito, sport climbing, 3×3 basketball, indoor volleyball, beach volleyball, table tennis and softball.
The inauguration of the sports fair will take place on Friday, May 13 at 6:00 p.m., at the Benito Juárez Olympic Stadium.
He reported that a good competitive level is expected and that despite the fact that the World Universiade, to be held in China in the summer, was canceled just a few days ago and many athletes aspired to qualify for that competition, various international fairs are still going on.
“We will have the Climbing World Championship in July; the Combat University Games, from September 23 to October 6, in Turkey, which include the disciplines of wrestling, boxing, karate, wushu; in addition to the Pan American University Games, which will be in Mérida in October and we have good forecasts to have representatives”, he pointed out.
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Text: Iván Serrano Jauregui | Laura Sepulveda
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