Sports aptitude test 2011

This year's sports aptitude test of the Institute of Sport and Sports Science took place on 17.06.2011. 144 applicants turned up in good weather in the Aueparkhalle, where Prof. Dr. Norbert Hagemann welcomed the potential first-year students and explained the day's schedule. A long and strenuous day awaited the applicants: after all, they had to prove themselves in the ten disciplines and thus demonstrate their suitability for a sports degree course.

The participants were tested in the areas of endurance (Cooper test), speed, strength, gymnastics and various team sports, as well as in coordination skills, where the focus was on coordination under time pressure and coordination under rhythmic requirements. As in previous years, the swimming discipline was considered to have been passed if you had the DLRG bronze lifeguard badge.

Of the 144 applicants, the Institute of Sport and Sports Science congratulates 61 future sports students on passing the aptitude test without any deficiencies. A further 70 will be given a second chance to prove their suitability for sport in the re-examination.

The IfSS wishes the applicants who have to take the re-examination good luck and success for their second attempt and looks forward to welcoming the first-year students to Kassel in the winter semester 2011/2012.

A big thank you goes to the many hard-working helpers who, under the direction of Fabian Goldbeck, once again organized and carried out the aptitude test magnificently. See the background article 'Many hands, quick finish'.