The IfSS honors its best graduates and the most successful athletes at the University of Kassel

If you want to build high towers, you have to spend a long time at the foundations. With this quote from Anton Bruckner, the Managing Director of the Institute of Sport and Sport Science, Prof. Dr. Scheid, opened the evening on 08.12.2010 in the Gießhaus. On this evening, the Institute of Sport and Sport Science bid farewell to its graduates and honored the best athletes of the university and the best graduates of the sport course of the year 2010. The ceremony was opened with a greeting from the Dean Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner.

In the course of this event, which has now been taking place for eleven years, the AHS (Allgemeiner Hochschulsport) looked back on another very successful year in 2010, both at national and international level. The foundation for this was laid by the rowers around Jan Jedamski and Dennis Ziegler, who qualified for the European Student Championships at the German University Championships. In addition, Nora Wessel won the silver medal at the U23 World Rowing Championships. Dörte Nadler (1st place DHM Cross Country) and Raimund Meilinger (1st place DHM Boxing) shone at national level. University Sports Officer Gerhard Blömeke-Rumpf and Vice President Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Lawerenz proudly presented the awards to the outstanding athletes.

The Dietrich Martin Prize was also awarded to the best sports graduates of the year at this event. Yvonne Mittag and Andreas Bernart consistently demonstrated such outstanding achievements in both theory and practice during their studies that they are this year's well-deserved award winners. In the keynote speech, Prof. Dr. Martin Lames (Technical University of Munich) presented interesting and exciting findings from his studies on the topic of "Current research approaches in sports game research". interesting and exciting findings from his studies.