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April 2009
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 In just a few weeks, the St Augustine Campus will host the 2009 UWI Games. The University’s biennial student games, which are rotated among the three main UWI campuses, will return to Trinidad next month. This year’s UWI Games will be opened by Campus Principal Professor Clement Sankat at an official ceremony on Tuesday 21 May, 2009.
Most of the events will be held at the UWI St Augustine Sport and Physical Education Centre (SPEC). With 34,000-plus sq ft of indoor space, seating capacity for 1,360 people, and fully equipped outdoor facilities, UWI SPEC is widely recognised as a significant resource for regional sport development, training and research. During the weeklong Games, the SPEC will be converted into a Recreational Village, where athletes and supporters can enjoy a relaxed atmosphere, music and entertainment. The UWI Games are part of the University’s ongoing preparations for the upcoming inaugural Caribbean Games, which are carded to take place in Trinidad late this year, from July 12 to 19. During that time, the UWI SPEC will again be converted into a Games Village. From across the region 1,300 athletes will gather for this significant regional event, the first of its kind. The UWI has taken the lead in providing premier sporting facilities and sport-related academic programmes in the region. The University’s St Augustine Campus offers sport-related undergraduate degree programmes such as Sport and Tourism Management, Sport Management, Coaching and Physical Education. The University’s newest sport programme is a postgraduate diploma programme in Sport Management, which will be hosted by an Institute for Sport Studies housed in UWI SPEC. This postgraduate programme emerged from a recently signed agreement between the University and The International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES), which is the academic arm of the world football governing body, FIFA. |
More than 400 athletes from the three main campuses at St Augustine, Mona (Jamaica) and Cave Hill (Barbados) are expected to take part in this year’s Games, which will include track and field, football, netball, cricket, volleyball, basketball, six-aside hockey, swimming, table tennis and lawn tennis. Everything ends at a festive Closing Ceremony on Tuesday 28 May, 2009.