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THE UNIVERSITY COLLECTS, FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR, THE PRIZE FOR THE BEST SPANISH UNIVERSITY IN PROMOTION OF FEMALE SPORTThe Vice-Rector of culture, equality and planning at the University of Valencia, Antonio Ariño, collected from the Director General of sports of the Higher Council of Sports, David Villaverde, the award to the best Spanish University in promoting female sport.

The award was granted by the women’s Institute and the Na-tional Sports Council (CSD). The San Antonio Catholic University of Murcia was second awarded and the third place was for the University of Barcelona.

To receive this award, it was considered, among other fac-tors, the high women participa-tion and sporting results achie-ved by the athletes from the University of Valencia. In fact, in the 2011 spanish Champion-ships, 54% of the athletes from the University were women. The entity was involved with 64 athletes in team sports, 39 being women (61%) and individual

sports with 141 athletes, being 72 women (51%). In addition, 56 out of the obtained medals were obtained by women.

The Physical Education and Sports Service at the Univer-sity of Valen-cia has been working in the promotion of sports among university wo-men for a long time. Thus, in physical acti-vities planned by this Univer-sity Service,

65 users are women. They are also in the majority of elite and high level program of the Uni-versity: 54 out of the 99 athletes of the program are women.

Raquel Mateu wins two medals at the table tennis XXVI Regional Championships

The Divina Pastora Chair of adapted sports of the University of Valencia celebrates the world day of physical activity with a day to promote sport

The University has opened registration for summer sports activities

The University proclaimed team champion in the Spanish University Triathlon Championships

The university awards a scholarship to 130 students and athletes

More than one hundred participants in the Valencian University meeting II

Swimmer Selina Moreno faces the challenge of becoming the first Spanish woman to complete the ‘Triple Crown’

Interview

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ADAPTED SPORTSRAQUEL MATEU WINS TWO MEDALS AT THE TABLE TENNIS XXVI REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPSOrganized by the Table Tennis Federation and the Adapted Sports Federation of the Valencian Community, the regional Championships XXVI of table tennis at Onda (Castellón) took place.

Raquel Mateu, student of the Univer-sity of Valencia, taking part in the pro-gram of the Divina Pastora Chair of adap-ted sports at the University of Valencia and athlete from the table tennis Club Burjassot-Valencia, got a well-deserved silver medal in the category of absolute women doubles together with the table tennis athlete from Alicante Club, Yolan-da Baidez, and bronze in the individual physically disabled absolute category.

Raquel Mateu said: “I’d like to meet some more female athletes at the Cham-pionships in 2013 so that women’s sin-gles rankings was incorporated as one category and this would make visible the sport of table tennis”.

Raquel has been the only woman par-ticipating in singles class 10 of people with physical disabilities, both in the spa-nish Championship and in the regional one.

She is currently a member of Women and Table Tennis Committee of the Royal Spanish Federation of table tennis.

THE DIVINA PASTORA CHAIR OF ADAPTED SPORTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA CELEBRATES THE WORLD DAY OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY WITH A DAY TO PROMOTE SPORTRound tables, hiking, sport and dance to disseminate the benefits of physical activity for everyone.

Under the slogan “everyone can do sport living the University”, Divina Pastora Chair of adapted sports at the University of Valencia has organized a Conference to promote the sport, in-clusive and integrator. A day that will serve to disseminate the benefits of a healthy active lifestyle among mem-bers of the University community and to raise awareness of the need for a sport for everybody.

The seminar, which was held last May 23, since the World Day of phy-sical activity has been recently com-memorated, is free and registration is required through the Divina Pasto-ra Chair of adapted sport web page (http:www.sefuv.comcatedradivina-pastora).

The day was structured in morning and afternoon sessions. Until noon it was focused on round tables and pre-sentations, with personal experiences from students who benefit from the aids program included in the Chair, which incorporate physical or sporting activity among their daily occupations; in the afternoon, an eminently practi-cal set of activities in which everyone can participate, as it vindicates the slo-gan of the day.

The auditorium of the Faculty of Psychology on the Blasco Ibañez cam-pus hosted all the interventions in the morning, which began with the pre-sentation of the Conference (11: 45 a.m.) by José Campos, director of the Divina Pastora Chair and director of the physical education and sports ser-vice at the University of València and Luís Bago Member of the Chair and manager of the Divina Pastora Foun-dation.

Then, a round table was held in which some athletes of adapted sport Universitat de València - Divina Pas-tora Foundation programme gave an account of the situation of adapted sports at University. Raquel Mateu (ta-ble tennis), Monica Merenciano (judo),

Alejandro Bañuelos (adaptadaTetrasport activity), Hector Alvarez (sailing) and Rosa Zaballos (physical activity adapted-Tetrasport) took part on the round table.

Morning interventions concluded with the presentation “Reasons for participa-tion in physical activities for people with and without disabilities”, carried out by Núria Caus, Professor of the Faculty of education of the University of Alicante, specialist in adapted physical activity and former student of the University of Va-lencia.

The day was resumed in the afternoon with an active march which started from the esplanade of the library of social sciences in Tarongers campus, Manuel Broseta square. At the end of this activity all the rest of activities continued there during the afternoon: stretching (Guillem Gil-Physiotherapist from the Athlete’s Support Cabinet-U.V.), judo (by Monica Merenciano, Paralympic athlete) and the sport technician Vicente Rochela), elec-trical hockey (team Levante Masclets), futsal (Juan Viedma, from the Federation of adapted sports in the Valencian Com-munity) and tandem cycling (Julio Santo-domingo, Federation of adapted sports in the Valencian Community).

At 8 p.m. the performance of the group “Dance breaking molds” of the Federation of adapted sports in the Va-lencian Community began and the closing of all the workshops. Videos were shown throughout the afternoon and reported the projects of Tetrasport, a non-profit organization that aims to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities and that offer their conducted activities at Blasco Ibañez Aulari V.

The Divina Pastora Chair of adapted sports of the University of Valencia was created in December last year after years of close collaboration between the Uni-versity of Valencia and the Foundation Divina Pastora in promoting adapted sport program for college athletes and other collaborations in training courses and conferences.

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ACTIVITIES AREA

THE UNIVERSITY HAS OPENED REGISTRATION FOR SUMMER SPORTS ACTIVITIESThe Physical Education and Sports Service of the University of Valencia has opened registration for summer activities, to be held in June and July.

There is a wide range of activities both for the University community and for the ge-neral public and courses can be performed both in the open air (windsurfing, golf...) and indoors (dance, yoga, pilates, stretching, ca-poeira, spinning). Also included are activities designed for boys and girls, and students of the Nau Gran (over 55 years).

All entries must be done by self-registra-tion (www.uv.es/sef).

BURJASSOT’S TIVOLI THEATRE HOSTED VI FESTIVAL OF ORIENTAL DANCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA

The Burjassot Tivoli Theatre hosted VI Festival of Oriental Dan-ce at the University of Valencia. Hundreds of students took part in this event which had the objective of showing the learned choreo-graphy through various courses offered by the Physical Education and Sports Service throughout the academic year.

More than 200 people come each year to these exhibition, in its different modalities, tri-bal, oriental and bollywood and levels (initiation, medium and advanced), carried out in sports facilities of the three campuses of the University.

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THE UNIVERSITY PROCLAIMED TEAM CHAMPION IN THE SPANISH UNIVERSITY TRIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPSThe University of Valencia became the first place team in the Spanish University Triathlon Championships, held on May 12 in Puçol. The podium was completed by the Complutense University of Madrid in second place, and the University of Alicante who was third.

The competition brought to-gether more than 200 athletes - around 70 girls and 140 boys-re-presenting 44 universities across the Spanish geography which included Emilio Aguayo, Carmen Alfonso and brothers Victor and Helena Candel. The four compo-nents of the team of the Universi-ty, finished in 4: 33: 39, which led them directly to the first position by universities.

In the male category, the first place was for Victor Candel, 1: 02: 13 in the tenth position in the ranking followed closely by Emilio Aguayo, which crossed the goal in 1: 03: 02. With respect to the women’s category, Carmen Alfon-so placed seventh with 1: 12: 43 and Helena Candel reached goal

three minutes later at the 18th position.

The Championship, organized by the Catholic University of Valencia had its climax with the victory ce-remony which was presided over by the Mayor of Puçol, Mercedes Sanchis; by the delegate of the Higher Council of Sports Susana Gomez; and the Director of the Physical Activity and Sports Ser-vice at the Catholic University of Valencia, Jaime Tortosa; as well as by the director of the Director of the Physical Education and Sports Service of the University of Valen-cia Jose Campos and Antonio Iradi as representative of CEDU, as well as other leaders of the various fe-derations of Triathlon, both at re-gional and national level.

THE UNIVERSITY OF VALÈNCIA SPAIN RUNNERS-UP IN THE UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S SOCCER AND TAEKWONDO CHAMPIONSHIPSThe institution’s rugby and basketball teams obtain bronze medals

The teams of the University of Va-lencia continue to demonstrate a high sports level at the University Spain Championships which is taking pla-ce during these days. Recent medals came from 7-a-side women’s football, taekwondo, women’s basketball, and men’s rugby teams.

7 a-side women’s soccer team took the silver after a final attack against the University of Malaga, which eventually prevailed 2-1. Andalusian came forward in the first part with two goals only at four minutes for the conclusion of the match, the team of the University shor-ten distances and put pressure for the extension, but finally, the opponents won the match. The Championship wel-comed the 8 best Spanish universities and 150 players in the field of the Parc Central Torrent, next to the campus of the Inmaculada of the Catholic Univer-sity.

COMPETITION AREA

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TROPHIES TO UNIVERSITY GOLF CHAMPIONSThe University golf tournaments champions gathered at Masía de las Estrellas to receive their trophies

After some months of competition, the champions of the University golf tournaments gathered at Masía de las Estrellas to receive their trophies.

The champion was Vicente Domingo, administrative staff of the Faculty of Social Sciences, followed by Javier Herrero, and Vicente Bressó. More than 230 people have participated in the golf activity which takes place throughout the year.

THE UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA GETS SILVER IN THE SPANISH UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIPSWith nine medals, athletes are runners-up in the national competition for the third consecutive year

The University of Valencia was proclai-med Spain runners-up in the University Championship, the competition at the na-tional level, developed in Salamanca.

With this are already three consecutive years that the team of the University of valencia, coached by Jesus Sanchis, mo-ves to second place on the podium, which shows the level of the athletes of the ins-titution.

The University athletes got 9 medals: one gold, four silvers and four bronzes. Carlos Martin won the gold medal in 100 m. The four silver medals were achieved by: Cristina Ferrando and Miguel Ángel Sancho (both in high jump), Mar Morant discus and Manel Miralles on pole vault, and four bronzse for Cristina Castellar (200 m.), Ivan Martinez (100 m.), Elena Cerdán (100 m hurdles) and Miguel Cas-tillo (400 m.)

Finalists, with a fifth place, were: Bea-triz Ferrando in high jump, Ivan Giner in 200 meters and Begoña Navarro in long jump. Meanwhile, fellow team Patricia Perez managed a sixth place in Javelin and athletes of the University also obtained two seventh positions: Ferry García (triple jump), Enrique González (400 m hurdles) and Ferran Aguilar (400 m.) and eighths: Jordi Felip (shot put) and Rubén Ortiz in long jump.

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THE UNIVERSITY AWARDS A SCHOLARSHIP TO 130 STUDENTS AND ATHLETESA clear commitment to the promotion of the sport and the competition of University students

For more than one decade, the University of Valencia has the program of high level athletes (DAN) in collaboration with the Higher Sports Council, a program that annually gives scholarships to more than one hundred of eli-te college athletes.This year the University of Valencia has laun-ched a new aid program to athle-tes who represent the institution in various sport competitions, a clear commitment to the promo-tion of the sport and the compe-tition of University students.

A total of 130 University stu-dents will receive financial aid through this new line of sports scholarships for the first time this year. It should be highlighted that in addition to these two pro-grams, the University of Valencia also has a scholarship program, with the Divina Pastora Chair for the promotion of the sport among students with disabilities.

MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED PARTICIPANTS IN THE VALENCIAN UNIVERSITY MEETING II

The teams composed of staff from the University participated at the Universi-ty Jaume I of Castellón in the finals of the multi-sport event organized by the University of Valencia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, University Jaume I of Castellón and the Catholic University of Valencia. The teams of the University of Valencia won the three finals in which they were involved. They beat the Po-lytechnic University of Valencia in tennis and 7-a-side football, and the University Jaume I, in a thrilling padel game. In all,

more than one hundred people, all of them from Valencian University commu-nity, participated in this day, that grows year after year by the excellent invol-vement, since through sport they can enjoy a sporting match designed for the staff of the Valencian universities. The awarding ceremony was presided over by José Campos, director of the Physical Education and Sports Service from the University of Valencia and Carlos Her-nando, director of the Sports Service of the University Jaume I.

THE ATHLETE’S SUPPORT CABINET OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA WELCOMES BOJAN DUBLJEVIC, NEW SIGNING OF VALENCIA BASKET.

Bojan Dubljevic, signed by Valencia Basket, landed last night in Valencia. This morning, supervised by the doc-tor of the first team Miquel Frasquet, he made a stress test in the ASC of the University de Valencia, under the guidance of doctor Miguel Angel Buil. The rest of the medical checkup was carried out by José Antonio Ferrero,

cardiologist of the Hospital Clínico. Montenegrin power-forward, until now player of KK Budućnost, was born on October 24, 1991 so being 20, he could debut with the team in the Super Cup of Spain, planned for September. If so, he will become the youngest signing in the last sixteen years for the first team.

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SWIMMER SELINA MORENO FACES THE CHALLENGE OF BECOMING THE FIRST SPANISH WOMAN TO COMPLETE THE ‘TRIPLE CROWN’The University, the Town Hall and Gandía’s Royal Nautical Club, Caja Murcia and several associations support this new challenge

After overcoming cancer, the athlete makes history by completing the most prestigious swimming crossing.

On July 12, 2012, Selina Moreno plans to cross the channel of Santa Catalina, in the Pacific Ocean (USA). Considered one of the hardest channels in the world due to its peculiar characteristics, if she does she would be the first Spanish swimmer to overcome this challen-ge. There are 21 nautical miles (the equivalent of 40 kilometres) from Santa Catalina Island to the Americas (Los Angeles) and a water temperature fluctuates bet-ween 14 ° to 15 °, the eloquence of the figures state its hardness. This morning, the new challenge of the swim-mer from Gandía, has been presented in the Pavilion at the University of Valencia, in a press conference which counted with the interventions of José Campos, director of the physical Servei d’ Educació i Esports at the Uni-versity of Valencia; Marcos Estruch, Manager of Union initiatives of the city of Gandia; Agustí Valls, sports di-rector of the Royal Nautical Club of Gandía; Dolores Narváez, Caja Murcia Foundation and Selina Moreno.

Currently they have only managed to complete the known as the “Triple Crown” (channel, island of Man-hattan and Santa Catalina’s channel) The history of Se-lina Moreno is that of continuous self-improvement. In the summer of 2005, with 33 years recently comple-ted was diagnosed with breast cancer. Selina has then confronted “the great crossing of his life”. After cancer

treatment, she discovers that swimming helps to regain mo-vement in her left arm, improves her circulatory system, gets her strength back, diminish muscle aches, increases her self-esteem, and most importantly, maintains a link with her life before cancer: she completed her first swim-ming crossing in 1999. 16 Months after treatment, she gets to swim the Strait of Gibraltar and a month later the cros-sing Lanzarote-Fuerteventura. To date she has swum the English channel, the channel of Minorca, around the island of Manhattan and now she hopes to complete the “Triple Crown”.In this new adventure - of Triple Crown - Selina Mo-reno has three sponsors who accompanied her throughout her career, the University of Valencia, the city of Gandia and Gandía’s Royal Nautical Club, in addition Caja Murcia Foun-dation has joined, and the Spanish research Group against Breast Cancer (Geicam) and the Provincial Board associa-tion of Valencia of the Spanish Association against Cancer To perform this test, the swimmer must be accompanied by a ship escort of the organization where the trial judge will watch her, the pilot and Eva Garcia, intensive care nurse at Denia hospital. Besides her the canoeist, Paco Torregrosa, with whom she usually trains and Simon Conesa, another canoeist of support that will join them in the United States

www.selinamoreno.com

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INTERVIEW

RAQUEL MATEU “I DREAM OF PARTICIPATING IN PARALYMPICS”Raquel Mateu has a degree in teaching and she specialized in audition and language by the University of Valencia, currently pursuing a master’s degree in special education at the University of Valencia, and being part of the Table Tennis Club Burjassot-Valencia

Question: How and when did you begin competing?

Answer: When I went to school in my town C.P. “Beata Inés” in Benigánim, in extracurricular activities I started playing, I was playing for three years and compe-ting at regional level as junior with people without disabilities. For reasons of incom-patibility with my disability and technical resources available I had to leave it.

Twenty years later the University of Valencia gave me the opportunity to play, through the adapted sports’ program.

In 2009 I attended the Forum of Adap-ted Sports organized by the University and it was there that I discovered some opportunities associated with sport and disability.

Q: What are your dreams as an athlete?A: To be able to compete at internatio-

nal level and of course to participate in Paralympics.

Q: There are a lot of University stu-dents that do not practice sport, how would you encourage them to practice table tennis?

A: First of all that it is a non aggressive sport, relations between athletes are very good, it requires great concentration and anyone can practice it even if you are not physically developed and in addition age does not matter.

Q: what values are in a sport such as table tennis?

A: friendship, complicity and a lot of communication especially when playing doubles, companionship...

Q: what was the most emotional day of your career?

A: on June 16, 2012 in the regional championship of Onda when, after a tough game against Alvaro, I won and re-sulted third of the community.

Q: Can you tell us an interesting anec-dote that happened to you as an athlete?

A: After winning the mentioned match I was looking for my coach Salvador Giner to dedicate the triumph and i was not able to find him in the whole pavilion.

Q: as a member of the program of adapted sport from the UV, what kind of advantages do you have in your case?

A: many, first of all every day counse-ling on sports, health support, opportuni-ties to participate in courses and lectures explaining my experience.

Q: after participating in the regional table tennis championship what do you expect from this season?

A: the result I got, third in regional Open Comunitat Valenciana Tennis Tau-la’2012 disabled, and what I did not ex-pect, I was also runner-up in Valencian community women doubles along with player Yolanda Baidez from Alicante Ten-nis Club and improving the third position I got in the Spanish Championship (Almeria 2012)

Q: You are currently an active member of the women Committee of the Royal Spanish Federation of tennis and table tennis, what are your duties and what the objectives of this Committee?

A: To participate in everything regar-ding the promotion of women and table tennis, and to moti-vate women with di-sabilities to practice

this sport, as at the national level there are very few.

Q: You recently participated as a speaker in the conference to promote sport organized by the Chair Divina Pas-tora of adapted sports, what did you think of the day? How was this experience from your position as speaker?

A: the conferences organized by the Chair, regardless my participation, are always very interesting. There was a good organization and it was very successful. Although little by little I’m increasing my knowledge about adapted sports, in each conference I learn something new and moreover I meet very interesting people with a spirit of tireless struggle.

As a speaker, due to my inexperience, when you’re done always have the feeling that you have left something out, but I think that there will be a next opportuni-ty to contribute with everything that I’m learning.

Q: in table tennis particularly, how do you consider the playing level at Universi-ty competitions in Spain?

A: there is a high level, this year is my first year as a representative of the Uni-versity of Valencia in the Spanish Cham-pionship and it was a very nice experien-ce, but the high level of the athletes left me without any trophy.

Q: what benefits can report the prac-tice of competitive sport to a University student?

A: To be more integrated in the edu-cational community both within Valencia and with the rest of the Spanish Univer-sities and sport is always beneficial for health.