After the inauguration of the Palatennis in grand style with Valentina Vezzali, the president of the Cus Stefano Belardinelli and the Unicam rector Claudio Pettinari open the doors of the university sports facilities. A story that points to success starting from the 2023 National University Championships: “After the Luzi stadium of the early 1980s with a football field and athletics track, it became necessary to have covered spaces – explains the president Belardinelli – the Orsini building, immediately after the 1997 earthquake, which allows the practice of basketball, volleyball, judo, table tennis and fitness courses. The evolution of sports specialties required the new building of Drago Gentili inaugurated in 2008 on the occasion of European university volleyball championships, managed by the Eusa (European university sport association), mainly used for 5-a-side football, archery, climbing and squash over the weight room and calisthenics. Then 15 hectares of park “. Many international and national initiatives: European university volleyball championships in 2008 and 2015, European table tennis championships in 2019, Fidal preparation meetings which also saw the presence of athletes such as Marcell Jacobs, then long jumper, and Fausto Desalu. “In 2023 the National Spring University Championships (Cnu) will be held in Camerino – continues Belardinelli – in an edition that will see numerous sports assigned by Cusi, in these days recognized as the Coni sports federation. In 2025 the assignment is being finalized. by the Eusa of the European 11-a-side football university championships. The territorial impact for which the sports club has almost two thousand members is significant, making it one of the largest in the region and full of projects for disabled people, young people in the social field and foreigners. For the rector Pettinari, the solution to many problems is to “create adequate facilities, giving students or athletes the opportunity to carry out both activities. For five years now there has been a massive commitment, both because we had understood which have an important but also social function for the university, and therefore projects such as the padel court, the expansion of the dirt track for running, the creation of a tennis hall, the adaptation of external systems are born; the desire to extend over more disciplines and not limit oneself to the traditional ones that attract everyone, and to deal with those that concern a small group of people, but are equally important. To grow further there will be a unique athletics track for the province of Macerata in terms of size and characteristics, an expansion of the external systems, for biking, running, Nordic walking, of the weight room “. In addition to the scheduled events, Pettinari specifies that an initiative for the Dual career of student-athletes has started with the sports department, and concludes: “The advantages of sport are undoubted. Many studies say that after sporting activity, concentration It increases. It also teaches loyalty and knowing how to lose. These are plants that are available to almost 60,000 people “.
