Sports Unit

WELCOME TO THE FOUNTAIN UNIVERSITY'S SPORT UNIT

MEET THE CHIEF COACH

Adedokun Ganiyu Adekunle

 

Introduction

Sports Units were established to prevent crime among the students and the participants at all levels and to provide mentors and heroes for youth to follow and aspire to. Sports provide avenues for socialization, sharing ideas, beliefs, values, and competition. It gives an opportunity to experience the good, the bad, and the ugly, build relationships, learn to accommodate, dialogue, teamwork, unity, use power, respect and be respected, accountable, escalate, de-escalate, and keep peace among the students, and the community at large.

However, it was observed that students’ participation in sports is a matter of convenience and the extent it can be accommodated by academic programs at the University. Within the last five years of its existence, Fountain University has been part of its effort to achieve its mission of providing total University Education. In which Sports is an integral part has successfully organized and participated in various sporting events and competitions..

Mission

The mission is to produce competent and resourceful graduates with high moral standards. Our philosophy is the total development of men and women in an enabling environment through appropriate teaching, research, sports, and service to humanity irrespective of nationality, race, or religion influenced by Islamic ethics and culture.

Achievement:

TThe sports unit has recorded numerous successes in sports participation within and outside the university campus between 2012 and date by not letting the factors above weigh the unit down. Some of these include;

  1. Successful hosted and organized various completions such as Prof., Oloyede’s inter-departmental soccer competition, Vice-Chancellors inter-collegiate sports competition, Olawoore staff competition, Accenture Intercollegiate sports competition, staff management sports competition, Fountain Premier League to  mention but few.
  2. The University football team had participated in various friendly football matches with neighboring Universities both public and private in which we had recorded a series of victories, this also extended to the table tennis, volleyball, and basketball teams.
  3. Fountain University affiliated with the Nigeria Private University Games Association (NPUGA) in 2012.
  4. The University in her maiden participation in the Nigeria Private University Games (NPUGA) held at Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Ikeji-Arakeji in 2013, the university was placed ninth (9th) position out of twenty-three (23) participated Universities with 3gold, 5siver and 6bronze medals. However, Team Fountain won the best-behaved team in this competition.
  5. Fountain University in collaboration with NASFAT Youth Wings organized, hosted, and won the maiden edition of NASFAT Games in 2016.
  6. The University was unable to take part in the 2015 edition held at Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti due to the student unrest before the game. However, Team Fountain joined the other twenty-seven private universities across the Nation to participate in the 7th edition of the Bia-annual games at Nile University, Abuja in December 2017. The team came back with 3 gold, 3 silver, and 7 bronze medals placing her in 12th position.
  7. Awareness Trek: Awareness trek Is an annual keep- fit activity organized by the sports unit and bankrolled by the University Management to let the entire Community aware of the existent of the University, and to let the Management, staff and the Students always be physically-fit. This has been successfully organized and fully participated by the Management, Staff, Students and the entire Community for the past years.

The lined-up sporting programme for students & staffs

The following are the Sporting programme lined up for the Students and Staff of the University;

  1. Vice-Chancellor Inter-Collegiate Sports Competition: This is a sporting competition that involves seven different games participated at all levels among the students.
  2. Staff Sports Competition: The sporting competition for the Staff involves participation in six games namely: Athletics, Ayo-Olopon, Badminton, Chess, Draft, Scrabble, Soccer, and Table tennis.
  3. NASGA: This is a sporting competition usually organized by the Youth wing of the NASFAT in collaboration with Fountain University. The games will come up by September, at Fountain University.
  4. Fountain Premier League: This is a football competition among the students.
  5. Friendly matches: A series of friendly matches is proposed to be played in and outside the campus among the neighboring Universities. The matches will involve both the Staff and the student teams in different games.
  6. Nigeria Private University Games (NPUGA): NPUGA games could not be able to hold in the last 2 years due to the pandemic, Hopefully to held this year.
  7. Osun State Tertiary Institution Games (OSTIGA): The university is ready for the forthcoming Speaker’s Cup. A football competition among the tertiary institutions in the State of Osun.

Contact Us

If you have any inquiries or require more information, please do not hesitate to reach out to us.

  • Phone: +2348033567317
  • Email: sport.unit@fuo.edu.ng
  • Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

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