Guillermo Palao, Vice-principal for Internationalization and Cooperation; Armando Nieto, president of Divina Pastora; and José Campos, director of the Chair of Divina Pastora of Adapted Sport of UV, delivered last Wednesday the diplomas for the best Thesis and PhD thesis, of the year 2012/2013, which dealt with issues related to physical activity and adapted sport.
The presentation ceremony was conducted by Guillermo Palao, vice-principal of Internationalization and Cooperation. During the ceremony, Armando Nieto, president of Divina Pastora, thanked to those who had made possible the creation of the Department and expressed his satisfaction for the achievement of the objectives thereof.
After that, José Campos, director of the Divina Pastora Chair of Adapted Sports of the UV presented the activities and objectives of the Chair,and then gave the floor to Nuria Mendoza and his speech "El deporte adaptado en España: evolución y perspectivas" (Sport adapted in Spain: evolution and perspectives). In it, Mendoza stressed the importance of improving the protection and promotion of physical activity in children between 5 and 10 years and the necessity of working in teams, multidisciplinary, for achieving objectives in all areas. Moreover, during the presentation, she defended the leading figure of the graduate in physical education as an intervener at the end of the process of rehabilitation of the athlete, as already happens in countries of the European environment, and she also meet objectives of the recently created Spanish Association of Adapted Sport and Physical Activity and invited the people present at the event to participate actively in it.
Once the lecture finished, the ceremony of awards and certificates took place, for which the rector, Guillermo Palao, requested the presence of the winners’ tutors, Gabriel Brizuela and Victor Perez, who were given a certificate. Then the protagonists of the event took to the stage, the winners of the awards for the best thesis in Master's Degree and PhD of the academic year 2012/2013. They were Elena López Cañada, for his work ‘Physical activity and quality of life in women with disabilities: a qualitative study ', which won the first prize and José Luis Romero Ávila with' immediate effect of exercise on heart rate variability in people with tetraplegia ', who was second.
The event took place at the Salon de Grados of the Faculty of Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport of the UV, and it was attended by Vicente Añó, the Dean of the Faculty, and several personalities from the world of sport, family and friends of the winners.
Last update: 6 de june de 2014 11:13.
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