Sports
Student Union
The student union JAMKO arranges a wide variety of sports activities, for example, sports days, courses, and e.g. floorball, volleyball and futsal sessions. The members of the student union are entitled to discounts on certain sports services, such as the morning swim at AaltoAlvari. Members of JAMKO can also join the Jyväskylä students' sports club KOOLS ry.
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Jyväskylä
The City of Jyväskylä offers a variety of sports facilities. In the swimming and recreation centre AaltoAlvari, in addition to water sports, you can do aerobics or use the gym. Kuokkalan Graniitti provides opportunities for ball games, aerobics, athletics, and shooting. You can also practise athletics in Hipposhalli and play ice hockey in the ice stadium beside it. Monitoimitalo offers versatile opportunities for e.g. ball games. As well as indoor sports facilities, Jyväskylä has many sports parks and outdoor recreation areas, where you can play football and basketball, skate, ski, and play bandy.
There are hundreds of kilometres of paths for hiking and jogging in the Jyväskylä Region, some of which are lit. You can see the outdoor recreation routes on the map of Jyväskylä. The parks of the city and ’rantaraitti’ (the bicycle and pedestrian route surrounding Lake Jyväsjärvi) are excellent places to enjoy outdoor life. In addition, the region offers ideal opportunities for golf, downhill skiing, bowling, go-kart racing, and riding. As Jyväskylä is situated by Lake Päijänne, it has good waterborne connections and opportunities to practise water sports, such as ice-hole swimming, fishing, and paddling.
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Saarijärvi
Saarijärvi provides opportunities for downhill and cross-country skiing, athletics, swimming, gymnastics, among other things. The surrounding areas provide further opportunities for outdoor activities.
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Central Finland
In addition to its immense forests and numerous lakes, Central Finland offers a wide variety of sports facilities and services for sports-enthusiasts of all levels.
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Combining Sports and Education
It is easy to combine top-level sports and study at JAMK. We cooperate with the Central Finland Sports Academy and jointly develop flexible ways for this purpose.