UM sportsmen and women at the top!
The University of Montpellier celebrates its athletes who have won medals at the World, European and French University Championships at an annual ceremony organized by the SUAPS. Read the portraits of these champions, who lead the demanding double life of student-athlete.
16 medals and a world champion
The year 2019 was a fine harvest for UM athletes, who brought home sixteen medals, including five in athletic strength. A discipline little known in France, and one in which the University of Montpellier has just produced a world champion: STAPS student Innès Allouache. In the presence of Philippe Augé, President of the University, Jean-Yves Cassan, Director of SUAPS and Alexis Vandeventer, Student Vice-President, over sixty young athletes were honoured.
Being a student athlete: a daily challenge!
Discover a sporting discipline through the portraits of these young athletes: athletic strength, volleyball, golf, women's soccer, swimming or kick boxing... They tell the story of their lives as student athletes.
You too can practice a sport at the University of Montpellier with SUAPS!
Loïc Lalague "Don't show your weaknesses".
Tom Picard: "We have to be clever to outwit our opponents".
Romain Buttarazzi: "Be rigorous in your choices".
Carol-Ann Borel: "Unwavering dedication and commitment".
Lucie Esnault and Manon Bruno: "All out for the team!
Lucie Esnault and Manon Bruno
Innès Allouache: "My heart will always beat for Montpellier".
Tom Picard: "We have to be clever to outwit our opponents".
Léo Caniaux: "Balancing effort and ego
