The National University Championships ended yesterday, a true mini-Olympics of the sports sectors, or Cus, of the Italian universities, which took place from 17 May in Isernia, Campobasso and Termoli: after the opening ceremony ten days ago, and the dinner of last Wednesday’s Gala, the event ended without a real closing ceremony, but already setting the date for 2025 in Ancona, even if the period in which the races will be held has not yet been defined. In the traditional university event, the bold group of Unimore, University of Modena and Reggio, as always played a leading role, despite the presence of very important, and very strong, universities from all over Italy. The spoils brought home by the Unimore group are important, and now we await with interest the final points classification which will be drawn up in the next few days, considering all the various results of all the races, a classification in which Unimore expects to be able to occupy an excellent position , even if the reconfirmation of the men’s university volleyball championship was not successful, there was no shortage of gold medals, especially in the Athletics sector, where UniMoRe could count on the contribution of numerous ‘valuable pieces’ of La Fratellanza. Thus the medals arrived for Boni, and Pasquinucci, the latter even twice, and Valentini, but there were many first place finishes in the various races, which brought Cus Unimore many points from which a positioning is expected at the top of the club rankings, a situation for which the management of the Modena-Reggio Emilia team has worked hard.
Team sports have been the traditional source of success for Unimore, such as volleyball, basketball, the protagonist despite a decidedly limited squad, seven-a-side rugby, capable of one of the most daring feats of the entire event, but also a-side football five, which was present at the Italians for the first time, and came close to progressing to the next round, or the very popular eleven-a-side football, where the lottery of penalties penalized the result in the qualifying round, some Unimore sports also deserve mention which they appeared on the national stage without hoping for a result, but in the more traditional sporting spirit of university games, to participate, and be together to play sports and socialize. This is the case of tennis, where the scoreboard, both in singles and in doubles with Riccardo Fava and Umberto Montruccoli, presented a very high level, with second category tennis players, while in Judo, and especially in Taekwondo, UniMoRe athletes are not managed to respect the forecast that wanted them to be protagonists, and to bring home a medal, even if some, like Greta Guaita of Taekwondo, will certainly make up for it at EUSA 2024, the European University Games, which will be held in July in Hungary.
