Varsity team

College sports called sporting activities, which are offered by universities for their student and employee shaft and normally organized in the university's sports center. The aim is to maintain health and recreation of members of the university and is thus settled mainly in the area of grassroots sport. Parallel find with the University Championships ( for example, the ADH ) competitions are held regularly, which also cover the area of ​​competitive sports. International high school sports is organized by the FISU hosting the Universiade regularly.

In university rankings of college sports is often a criterion for evaluating the infrastructure.

The high school sports is to be distinguished from the sport science, the academic research and teaching is dedicated to the sport sector.

Insurance

In the context of sporting activities at universities participating in the general high school sports is protected as a company sports. Such an operation is covered by Social Security if it is used to compensate for the work and is not only in the personal interest. In high school sports, but only events are included in it that are listed in the course catalog. Recently, the Social Court of Detmold ( Ref.: S 14 U 152/ 08) but decided that organizing a yearly football tradition tournament, which is carried out at a technical college and organized, is not an event in the context of the general high school sports. Partly competitions against teams from other company sports teams are the opinion of the Court essentially to their own interests of the participants. If one of the participants violated, the Accident Fund, therefore can for benefits - such as the granting of injury benefit - not be availed

Internationally

In the United States, high school sports plays an important role in the recruitment in professional sports. Almost all universities have their own sports facilities and teams. Many of them are united in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and carry out regular competitions against each other. In addition, universities have the stadiums, some of which have the size of European soccer stadiums. The way in professional sports performs mostly on the high school sports.

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