{"id":12694,"date":"2018-12-25T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T07:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/?page_id=12694"},"modified":"2018-12-25T09:33:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T07:33:09","slug":"the-competitive-sports-unit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/competitive-sports\/the-competitive-sports-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Competitive Sports Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Competitive Sports Unit forms an integral and important part of the Cosell Association\u2019s activities. The unit, which was managed from its inception by Gabi Sarig, is now being run by Ron Rosenbloom. The unit is responsible for managing all competitive sports groups and the ASA Jerusalem Association. ASA Jerusalem initiates and manages the internal student sports competitions, the decathlon team, the chess club, the student basketball team in the B League, and women\u2019s basketball teams, that focus on advancing young women athletes with a special division for girls that is among the largest in Israel as well as two adult women\u2019s teams<\/p>\n

The unit is responsible for overseeing each and every player and athlete including medical check ups, insurance, training facilities, training hours etc. In addition, the unit works directly with the Hebrew University in order to support and assist students and encourages academic and athletic excellence through the granting of scholarships to outstanding athletes<\/p>\n

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Competitive sports activities began at the Hebrew University in 1952 when the Student Federation set up a special committee for sports.\u00a0 A year later the Academic Sport Association (ASA) was founded by the federation with the leadership of Adin Talber and Ami Riklis and with the participation of other student athletes from the Hebrew University and the Technion in Haifa.\u00a0 Over the years ASA has expanded to include other universities and colleges. Today ASA Jerusalem has a wide range of activities<\/p>\n

WOMEN\u2019S BASKETBALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

ASA Jerusalem manages numerous women\u2019s basketball teams that train at the new sports facility at Givat Ram<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s team in the premier women\u2019s league is managed by the association for promotion of women\u2019s basketball of ASA Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a separate association that manages the team which plays in the premier league.\u00a0 Last season the team won the championships and the trophy of the National League and returned to play in the premier league after a four year absence. The team\u2019s coach for the past twenty years is Boaz Tayeb who is also the professional manager of the ASA Jerusalem club<\/p>\n

The team is comprised of foreign players who have come to Israel from the U.S., Israeli players who have played and grown up so to speak with the team and a sixth year medical student at the Hebrew University. The home court is the new sports center at Givat Ram with games played on Mondays at 7 P.M. In addition to this team the Cosell Association and the Competitive Sport Unit run one of the largest and leading youth departments in Israel<\/p>\n

The National A team for girls is coached by Or Ben Porat; the Regional A team for girls by Samer Alian; National B team for girls by Rivka Ross (a player on the premier league team); Regional B team for girls by Osnat Ginati; and the \u201cEtna\u2019 team for girls in grades 4-6 which is coached jointly by Osnat Ginati and Shani Naot (who is also a player in the premier league)<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of its activities, the association over the years fostered talented young female players, some of whom became major assets in leading teams in Israel and abroad and even led the Israeli national teams. In the past few years ASA Jerusalem has cooperated with the Peace Players organization in organizing teams of Arab and Jewish girls who play together on the same team. The cooperative project is run by Samar Alian, the coach of the Regional A team for girls. <\/span><\/p>\n

STUDENT TEAMS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The association also runs two student teams.\u00a0 The first is a women\u2019s team that plays in the National Basketball League, Southern District.\u00a0 The team has been playing for several years and is made up of students and graduates of the Hebrew University along with a number of other players. The team is coached by Itzik Babai, who took over this season<\/p>\n

The second team is of adult players who play in the Southern Regional A League of the Basketball Association.\u00a0 Last year the team won the Jerusalem Region B League Championships and by doing so advanced to the Regional A League. As is the case with the women\u2019s team this team is also comprised primarily of Hebrew University students and is coached by Yoad Agmon, who has trained the team for the past few years and this season advanced with them to the Regional A League<\/p>\n

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The Competitive Sports Unit forms an integral and important part of the Cosell Association\u2019s activities. The unit, which was managed from its inception by Gabi Sarig, is now being run by Ron Rosenbloom. The unit is responsible for managing all competitive sports groups and the ASA Jerusalem Association. ASA Jerusalem initiates and manages the internal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":12604,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12694","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12694\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cosell.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}