Honours students from the University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of Human Movement Sciences were awarded two gold and four silver medals at the student forum of SASReCon, the bi-annual sport and recreation research conference recently presented at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. The theme of the conference was: "Mass participation and a winning nation". Here are, from the left: Janka Fouché, silver medal winner in Children's Kinetics, Murry Capon, silver medal winner in Bio-Kinetics, prof. Johan Bloemhoff, Programme Director at the department, Morné Castelyn, silver medal winner in Sport Science, Coleen Jobes, silver medal winner in Sport Science, and Justin Oelofsen, gold medal winner in Bio-Kinetics. Jessica Bonstein, gold medal winner in Bio-Kinetics, was absent when the photo was taken. Prof. Bloemhoff delivered a presentation at the main conference entitled: "Sport and Recreation Participation: The Transition from Grade 12 to Third Year at University".
Photo: Stephen Collett