Sports activities are regarded as one of the basic elements of forming robust societies. They are not only leisure time activities but also a life style. Positive effects of sports in forming harmonious, healthy, dynamic and creative individuals cannot be denied.
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University provides various sports facilities and organizes plenty of activities in sports and recreation at all levels of ability in order to help students and members of staff to maintain healthier bodies and minds, to gain discipline, to channel their energies towards a better lifestyle, and to have different alternatives for leisure time activities.
Football, volleyball, basketball, handball, athletics, badminton, tennis, table tennis, swimming, diving, caving, trekking, climbing, cross training, aerobics, wrestling, and taekwondo are some of the popular indoor and outdoor activities students and staff can engage in. Traditional games, races or competitions are organized every year within the University in both individual and team sports. The students' sports activities are coordinated by the Health, Culture and Sports Activities Office. Different sports teams of Mugla University participate in various regional and national sports competitions every year and return with many championships.
Sports Facilities
Sıktı Koçman Sports Halls (open on weekdays between 08:00-23:00) with a 2,500 audience-capacity games hall, table tennis rooms, aerobics-gymnastics-step rooms, a cafe, changing rooms and showers is open to all students and staff through membership or daily entrance tickets.
Half-Olympic indoor swimming pool, where practical training sessions and swimming courses are also organised, is open to all students and staff through membership or daily entrance tickets.
There are 5 open tennis courts, a table tennis hall and a fitness hall on campus that can be used by students and staff through membership or hourly/daily entrance tickets.
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Stadium, of which grass field and athletics track built with UEFA/FIFA/IAFF standards for national/international football and athletics games, have a 3,500 audience capacity stand and changing/ shower rooms.
Within the campus there are also open basketball, volleyball, handball, mini football fields open to students and staff everyday. All students and staff can use free of charge the running/trekking track situated in the pine woods behind the staff residences.
Leisure Activities
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University provides opportunities for students who would like to participate in social, cultural, artistic, and scientific activities and helps them in terms of organization, performance, and exhibition. Throughout the year, the University administration and student groups carry out miscellaneous activities, including theatre performances, film screenings, live stage performances, competitions, concerts, folk dances, animations, and other artistic pursuits, as well as panels, conferences, discussions, and sales. Sıtkı Kocman Days and the Traditional Spring Festival host outstanding and colourful activities participated by not only Mugla Sıtkı Kocman University students but also student groups or organizations from other universities.