Sports Activities

Sports Activities and BU Teams

• The available facilities at BU:
  • Fitness Room

  Where male and female students can use it for free at times that is appropriate to their programs and the GYM schedule, under the supervision of Coach George Manoli for male students and Coach Ghada Rumman for female students.

   

  • Basketball

  At the entrance to the Athletics department, there is a basketball court, and the department provides balls, cones, and uniforms for players.

  There are males and females basketball teams under the supervision of coach Raed Abu Rumman, who works to train the teams on a daily basis and prepare them for any internal or external participation or championships.

   

  • Volleyball

  The indoor volleyball court is available on the multipurpose Auditorium of BU. The department provides balls, cones, and uniforms for players.

  There are males and females volleyball teams under the supervision of coach Raed Ayyad, who works to train the teams on a daily basis and prepare them for any internal or external participation or championships.

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  • Badminton

  The Badminton trainings take place on the multipurpose Auditorium,

  The department provides the necessary tools and sport uniform for the players under the supervision of coach Raed Ayyad.

  

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  • Table tennis

  The department provides the necessary tools for this game. The training times for players is scheduled to fit the players’ programs. There is an interior championship that is organized each semester for the university students. The training is conducted under the supervision of Coach George Manoli. There are two teams one for female students and the other for male students.
  

  • Football

  The Department schedules the training times according the students free time to train and prepare them for internal and external participation under the supervision of Coach Raed Al-Harimi. There are male and female football teams.

  The department also organizes internal leagues and championships in cooperation with the Students’ senate throughout the Academic year.

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  • Tennis

  There are two tennis courts at the university, and the department provides the necessary tools for this game, and continuous tournaments are organized at the university level among its students, and at a local level among the game fans.

  Also, tennis is given at the university under the supervision of Mrs. Samar Araj Mousa and Coach Issa Rishmawi.

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  • Karate

  (Kumite) is one of the karate types, in which the Bethlehem University competes with the rest of the Palestinian universities, and it is one of the fighting and self-defense games.

  

  • Swimming

  It is one of the games in which our University competes in it, and encourages the talented students to train at their clubs as there is no swimming pool at BU.

  Mary Al Atrash is one of our female students who participated in Rio De Janerio Olympics in 2016.

  • Arm wrestling:

  The department organizes yearly arm wrestling championships for male and female university students, supervised by Coach George Manoli.