The sports association, as its name suggests, aims to encourage middle school students to play sports. Close-up on an essential structure.
At Guillaume-de-Lorris college, there is a sports association. It is affiliated with the National School Sports Union (UNSS).
It is three physical education and sports teachers, Karim Aznid, Ingrid Deloris and Thomas de Oliveira, who keep it alive, not to mention its many graduates and college students who run it.
The head of the establishment, Jonathan Peu-Duvallon, is ex officio president. Thomas de Oliveira is the secretary and Ingrid Deloris the treasurer. The sports association, explains Ingrid Deloris, “it’s included in our working hours. We have our hours with students and three hours of sports association per week (it’s a package).” But teachers do much more. The association operates on Wednesday afternoons for both training and competitions during the 1-5 p.m. time slot. It mainly offers handball, climbing, badminton, cross country and athletics as activities but also more one-off and fun activities such as laser run.
Good results in cross country and climbing
The college’s football sports section is also attached to the UNSS for competitions.
The college structure is achieving very good results, particularly in cross-country and climbing. At the district level, the Lorriçois middle school students won the junior and junior cross-country challenge. The students do not only stand out on a sporting level, they invest in a completely different field but one just as important as sporting practice: young officials (college students follow training in a discipline of their choice to be able to referee or judge a sporting event).
The Association has set a new objective for 2024-2025: developing young first aiders. And for Ingrid Deloris to recall the importance of sport which is an access to culture.
