Physical Education School of Nanyang Normal University once was the teaching and research group in sports, music & Arts of Nanyang Teacher Training School(the predecessor of Nanyang Normal University).The Department of Physical Education was found in 1989 and the first batch of three-year students in physical education were enrolled in the same year. It began the undergraduate education in physical education in 2001 after Nanyang Teacher Training School was upgraded and renamed Nanyang Normal University in 2000. The Department of Physical Education was renamed Physical Education School of Nanyang Normal University in April, 2006. Physical Education, Athletic Training and Dancology (in Sports Dancing) are three full-time undergraduate majors that are set up in the Physical Education School, with more than 600 students.

     Physical Education School has a large-scale stadium with a capacity of over 2000 persons and contains the basketball hall, badminton hall and the gymnastic hall and it had successfully accomplished the table tennis competition of the 7th National Peasant Games. It also has 3 standard plastic track-and-field grounds, 30 outdoor basketball courts, 4 outdoor tennis courts and 9 outdoor volleyball courts, and sports anatomy laboratory, sports physiology laboratory, sports health care and rehabilitation laboratory and student physical testing center, all of which are equipped with advanced equipment.

    There has been an increasing improvement in the teaching staff’s overall quality, the academic title, educational background, the education related structure and age being reasonable. Among all the 64 staff members, 5 teachers have got the title of professor, 16 have got the title of associate professor, and 4 teachers have got the doctor’s degree. During the recent five years, Physical Education School has undertaken 2 national-level projects, 28 provincial projects and published 41 core papers, and many of them win the prefecture award.

    Recent years, to work with the college’s new thought of transformation development and connotation development, Physical Education School values students’ capacity building and adopts a series of effective measures to cultivate and improve the students’ overall quality by adhering to the concept of “harmony、struggle and innovation” and “higher、faster and stronger”. During the recent five years, Physical Education School has organized the students to take part in many national and provincial athletic contests in college students’ athletic events, basketball, tennis, badminton, martial arts and gymnastics etc many times and won the championship of the national Cuqiu (an ancient style of football) invitational tournament and the first place of the national gymnastic Qigong invitational tournament. Physical Education School has found many sports associations to make the student’s extracurricular sports life and campus culture more colorful.

    At present, under the guidance of the new leadership lineup and by the strong support of the college’s functional departments and the staff members’ joint efforts, everything goes orderly and will lay a good foundation for the future development. Physical Education School is striding towards a new journey.

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