Basketball Team

My name is Doğukan Sami Altınok, I was born in 1995 in Tokat, Zile and I study at Ufuk University, in the Department of International Trade. I am also the captain of the Ufuk University Basketball Team. The team was established in 2005, in Ufuk University which was founded in 1999. The aim of our basketball team is to represent our university in the “University League”; in the best possible way. This adventure started in 2005 and is currently continuing! Ufuk University has twocampuses. We carry out our training in the gymnasium of the Incek Dr. Rıdvan Ege Campus. Actually we are supposed to have 12 people on our team as this is one of the main rules of Basketball, but we participate in matches in teams of 15 people by adding 3 extra players. We continue our trainings throughout the year in the gymnasium. In addition, our matches are divided into two parts—the first and second seasons. After playing our matches in Ankara in the first season, we continue our matches in and outside Ankara in the second. We are participating in two different leagues among universities. One of them is the Local League of Ankara with the participation of all the universities in Ankara, and the second, ‘UNILIG’, which is across all of Turkey. As Ufuk University Basketball Team, our biggest success so far is winning third place in Ankara. We accept everyone to our basketball team. Primarily, we want to see semi-
professional and professional players among us. Basketball is a team sport which enables you to develop trust in others and fostersa sense of friendship. It develops things like trusting each other, your friends, your coach and improving your intelligence in and outside the game, It develops things like trusting each other, your friends, your coach and improving your intelligence in and outside the game, as well as developing your social skills. I wish every success to those friends takingthe university exam. We will be glad to see you among us.