PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS CENTER
Hayri Özkan, Ed.D., Director
The sports programs, activities and facilities of the University are
expanding constantly to keep pace with the growing needs of the
large student body. The facilities include three gymnasiums, three
outdoor tennis courts, one indoor tennis court, several outdoor
volleyball and basketball courts, three mini football fields, several
aerobic/step studios, fitness/conditioning room and multi-purpose
rooms, a regulation size grass football field on Main
Campus and a 60 m x 40 m multi-purpose grass football field on East
Campus. In addition, a new seven thousand square meter multi-purpose
sports complex (with a large state of the art fitness center,
basketball, volleyball, team handball courts, three squash courts, aerobic/step
and program studios and an indoor running-walking track) on Main
Campus added to the current facilities in the Fall of 2001.
On-campus activities like courses, training sessions, tournaments and
competitions are available in the following sports:
tennis, table tennis, squash, American football, football (soccer),
badminton,
basketball, volleyball, aerobic/step,
fitness/conditioning, fencing,
taekwondo, aikido, capoeira, yoga, kung fu (wing chun), Turkish folk
dancing, ballroom dancing and others.
The students can also take many of the sports courses mentioned
above as elective-credit courses every semester (see for details).
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