Mens Basketball Team

Hello friends, I’m Gökberk Koçer Başkent University Dentistry Department – 1st grade student. I’M here to introduce to you the Başkent University Basketball team.Başkent University Basketball Team was founded in 1997 for students who are engaged in sports, who play baasketball, and wish to take basketball further. Since ’97, we have accomplished a lot. This is my second year at Başkent University. As far as I have seen in two years, both our mens and womens teams are working to take Başkent University further. I play in the 1st league and our womens team also is in the 1st league.last year, we became 2nd and continued to stay in the league.our aim this year is to become 1st and get promoted and take our team further.there is a court we use in the campus. Generally we train at the Başkent University Gym. Our training times and days change. Because our friends are busy, of course university study and sports get tough. But generally we train 2 days, or if our friends are available, 3 days a week. We have competitions, from the special cups, we generally enter a tournament called ‘Ayva Kupası’ once a year.ı believe we will represent our team in the best way in the 1st league helld between Universities each year. Personally, I’ve been playing basketball since I was 6 years old and in Ankara, I have Ankara 1st 2nd and 3rd places in club teams and prior to that also in high school and middle school teams. At the same time, my biggest achievement was to become 3rd place in Turkey. In the school team last year, i.e. the time I played, our biggest achievement was 2nd place. In our teams, we have elections once a year. These elections are for our friends who want to enter our team. Of course there are some things our coach pays attention to during these elections. Whether the player has played before, their achievements, condition, and hpw much they want to play. In general, we and our coach treat these friends in a friiendly manner, and we would like to take them on, as long as they are willing to work. But besides this, of ccourse there are certain criteria. These criteria firstly of course their desire to play is an advantage but this is not enough for everything. There needds to be some conditions. For example in our team there are full positions and oopen positions. For example I play number 1, this is called pivot. In pivot selection, if we have 3 or 4 good players, of course our coach doesn’t choose tese players. We’d like to select players to fill the open positions besides that one. Basketball is a team sport and I believe it has seriously positively effected me because of this. I believe it has effected me firstly in terms of confidence, communication with people and approaching people. Besides this, I’ve always been an ambitious person, and I can see how basketball has increased this because I realise when I win something how happy I can be and when I lose how sad I can be. And this effects me in a good way.