1.The basic situation

①Historical Origins

In 2001,the Department of PE & Sports of Wuxi Light Industry University,the Department of PE & Sports of Jiangnan College,and the Department of Physical Education of Wuxi Institute of Education established the merger of three schools and established the Department of Physical Education,Jiangnan University.

In 2006,it was renamed Sports Institute

In 2012,it was renamed the Sports Department and there are 63 existing faculty members

②main functions

Responsible for the organization and implementation of the whole campus physical education and sports activities, undertake the tasks of the school's public PE curriculum teaching, sports games and competitions, sports training, high-level team building, sports research and teacher-student physique monitoring.

The Ministry of Sports closely follows the strategic direction of the national sports industry, closely revolves around the task of the school's talent training center, adheres to the guidance of "sports promote health, sports shape personality", explores the path of "five educations simultaneously, and sports people", fully plays the role of the main channel of public sports teaching, vigorously expands the second classroom platform carrier of mass sports activities, strives to promote the spirit of healthy competitive sports, and continuously explores the brand building of "Healthy Jiangnan".

③Institution settings

④Faculty

The Sports Department has 63 in-service teachers, including 52 full-time teachers. Among full-time teachers, there are 21 teachers with associate high or above qualifications, accounting for 40.4%. The average age of full-time teachers is 44 years old. We have basically built a team of teachers with excellent work style, capable business, and full of vitality.

2. Infrastructure

The school attaches great importance to the construction of sports facilities .In the overall construction of the new campus in Lihu lake, the construction of high starting and high standard sports facilities has been completed, Including a gymnasium that can accommodate 4,500 people and has an area of 12,700 square meters, a central sports field of 13000 seats, and the modernization of the outdoor swimming pool and a large number of basketball and volleyball, the tennis courts and rock climbing, orienteering and other sports facilities in the modern emerging psychological development training base. In 2013, the school invested 500 thousand yuan to build an extracurricular exercise intelligent management system, and invested 2 million 600 thousand yuan to build 26 plastic basketball courts and 8 volleyball plastic fields and re-laying western track field.The modern sports training center (wind and rain playground) was completed and put into use in December 2022.

3. Our Missions

①The teaching of Public Physical Education

Each year, it undertakes the teaching of undergraduate public sports courses of approximately 350 classes and 10,000 students in the school.It undertakes the national physical fitness test for 20,000 full-time undergraduate students in the school.The sports department has 65 teachers every year to participate in teaching, and annually completed about 25,000 teaching hours. In 2013, the implementation of public sports reform, combine sports teaching with the cultivation of sports spirit, adjust the curriculum design, change the first academic year into the basic physical education course, and third to fourth term as a sports special course. The evaluation of physical education restores the percentage system.

②The cultivation of sportsmanship

To play the educational function of university sports spirit, let the sports spirit infiltration in university campus, let the sports spirit service personnel training, our school has been scientifically planning and elaborately designing, focusing on talent training, vigorously implementing the "sports spirit cultivation practice project".Sports spirit cultivation is the core content of university spirit molding and perfection,and it is a long-term measure for students' healthy body,strong will and perfect personality.

The Ministry of Sports, as the vanguard of the implementation of the sports spiritual education project of our university,plays a particularly crucial role in the entire cultivation process,especially in the school-wide event organization, venue coordination,referee training,and the construction of the team of Sports Instructors.In order to cooperate with the school to carry out this work,we have done a lot of work,from system construction to mechanism innovation, from team management to infrastructure construction. For example, Start public sports reform, reform the competition, establish the college guidance, student referee training system, strengthen the infrastructure, and so on.

③Sports team construction and management

There are currently two high-level sports teams for women's football and table tennis; We have established 10 perennial training sports teams, covering athletics, swimming, basketball, volleyball, tennis, martial arts, aerobics, darts and other events; Build 9 sports teams with traditional ethnic characteristics, including cuqiu, shuttlecock, pearl ball, dragon and lion, and ethnic fitness exercises. In recent years, he has achieved excellent results in competitions organized by the General Association of the Ministry of Education. He has won 30 national third prizes or above and 40 provincial and ministerial third prizes or above in student competitions, including 6 national top three and 45 provincial top three. The ethnic fitness exercise team represented Jiangsu Province and won the third prize at the 11th National Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games, achieving a historic breakthrough in the competition of the Jiangsu delegation.