UWI Blackbirds
The UWI Blackbirds (full name: University of West Indies Blackbirds ) are the university's own sports department on the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados .
overview
The sports offered in university sports are aerobics , basketball (men and women), chess , cricket (men and women), football (men and women), hockey , lawn tennis , netball , swimming , table tennis , taekwondo , athletics and volleyball (men and women ). While most of the sports can be practiced from the first semester, table tennis and swimming can only be played from the second semester.
Sports facilities
The university has various venues, some of which are adapted to the respective sports. In the so-called 3Ws Oval , which is dedicated to the three Barbadian and West Indian cricketers Frank Worrell , Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes and has a seating capacity of around 700 people, mainly cricket is played. During the Cricket World Cup 2007 the station sometimes served as a training facility for the participating nations.
Since 2011, hockey has been played on the newly built Hockey Turf Hockey, which has 300 seats. Before that, the hockey players shared an uneven lawn with the soccer players. On February 15, 2011 the new space ( AstroTurf ) was officially opened. In addition to dugouts for players and officials, the small complex also has changing rooms for the players and washrooms. The course is an artificial grass pitch based on sand.
In 2015, the Usain Bolt Sports Complex with more than 550 seats and around 400 standing space was opened on campus. The complex, located near the sea, has a FIFA -certified artificial turf field (class 2) as well as a floodlight system that corresponds to class 3 (for national and non-televised games) according to FIFA guidelines. There is also an IAAF- certified athletics facility, biomechanical laboratories, training rooms and two fitness centers. In addition to games by UWI Blackbirds FC , the men's soccer team of the university's sports department, which made the leap from second-rate Division 1 to the Barbados Premier League in 2014 and won the championship in 2016 , games by the Barbados national soccer team are also played here .
There is also a separate (open-air) basketball court, a court used for tennis, netball and volleyball, as well as the so-called Malcolm Marshall Nets with two lanes, on which mainly cricket is trained. The Sir Garfield Sobers Coaching Center (formerly Indoor Cricket School ) with four lanes in a hall serves as a supplement to the 3Ws oval and is over ten meters high. It is also mainly used for cricket training. For batsmen have their own bowling machine of British manufacturers BOLA ( BOLA Mechanical Bowling Machines ). In addition to regional and national cricket players, the ultra-modern training facility also often houses international athletes. Nevertheless, it serves primarily as a high-performance training facility for the West Indies Academy in Barbados.
There is no training facility available for swimming, which means that the participating students are responsible for their own training, as there are no fixed training times.
Web links
- UWI Blackbirds on the official website of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
Individual evidence
- ↑ UWI opens AstroTurf (English), accessed on March 11, 2019
- ↑ FIFA Stadium Book - Lighting and power supply (English), accessed January 6, 2018
- ↑ Training plan 2018/19 (English), accessed on March 11, 2019