Find your Balance! College Health and Sports week: March 21-25
Posted on: 16 March 2022
This year’s Health and Sports Week is all about encouraging everyone in the Trinity community to find their balance now that life is becoming more normal.
Events begin at 1 pm on Monday March 21 on Front Square as we celebrate Trinity’s ten years as a Smarter Travel Campus. Hear the Trinity Belles sing ‘I want to ride my bicycle’, win a bike or travel trip and get free bike lights.
Speakers will include Provost Linda Doyle, CEO of the National Transport Authority Anne Graham and the SU Welfare Officer Sierra Mueller-Owens.
The first 50 students there will get a free sandwich and water. Both students and staff can enter our prize draw.
More details here: https://www.tcd.ie/collegehealthweek/launch/
“We want to encourage everyone to find their balance now that life is starting to become more normal again,” said Trinity Health Promotion Officer Martina Mullin.
“We’re looking forward to more than 30 fun events and hope everyone can take part.”
Other key events will include:
- Professor Rose Anne Kenny will speak on Tuesday about how to live a long, healthy life, with ideas from her new book, Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life which is a number 1 international bestseller. Dr. David McGrath, director of the College health service, will host a questions and answers session with Rose Anne. Email your questions in advance to health.promotion@tcd.ie
- Healthy Library initiative is bringing activities like pilates, frisbee and tennis either into the library or around it
- Come and Try sessions for climbing, badminton or a mystery activity (you don’t find out until you arrive what it is).
- For staff, there will be a talk on gut health with Dr. Sinead Corr, a social craft and knitting session and talk on using your creativity to manage stress.
- For students, the Global Office and DU Food and Drink will host a healthy lunch.
- In the Buttery, where a healthy menu on offer, a wonderful new mural by student Irina Georgantzis Garcia will be revealed.
- We will also announce what’s next for Trinity student Heather McClean’s Plant Based Coffees initiative with Trinity Catering.