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On Friday, February 23, a session of the general coordinator of the Catalan Rowing Federation Dani Rodríguez Verdú took place at Club Natació Banyoles. He gave the keys of the Catalan high performance sports. Many athletes and their families attended the session, in which Dani Rodríguez detailed the different stages and also resolved doubts about access to the university, since the centers have a reserve of 3% of places for athletes high level. More information here.

On Friday, February 23, the General Coordinator of the Catalan Federation of Row Dani Rodríguez Verdú will give us the keys of regulations of high performance sports. The event will take place at 8:00 PM at Club Natació Banyoles and is open to everyone, mainly to dual carreers sportists and their families.

On Friday, November 17, the Dual Careers Seminar organized by the ICDC project and co-organized with the Càtedra d'Esports i Educació Física de la UdG took place. It was on the subject: Is it possible to combine high level sport and high level studies?. During the event, in which a hundred people participated, we listened to the experiences of athletes and different points of view, such as Dr. Alexander T. Latinjak, sports psychologist at the University of Suffolk (England) ).

Next Friday, November 17, in the Sala de Socis of Club Natació Banyoles, the seminar The Dual Careers will take place: is it possible to study and practice high-level sport at the same time?, co-organized between the ICDC project and the Càtedra d'Esports i Educació Física of the UdG. The activity, which will take place from 7 pm, is aimed at teachers and secondary school teachers, families, technicians and coaches in order to deepen the need to understand the psychological processes of the young athlete during the academic stage.

Day-to-day feeding is the key, in addition to training, to get results in athletes that are also studying and in the growth stage. This is one of the conclusions of the practical workshop given by nutritionist Elena Piñeiro at Club Natació Banyoles this Thursday, September 28. Athletes from the ICDC program and their families have learned to manage their nutrition. According to Piñeiro, there is a lot of professional intrusion and it's necessary to have more information.

The Club Natació Banyoles and the Universitat de Girona have signed an agreement to facilitate the access of the athletes included in the ICDC project in the Academic Support Program to the high-level university athletes of the UdG. This collaboration will include 8 students in each course, who will receive support with the aim of facilitating the dual career and that the young people have both academic and sports careers.

On Thursday, September 28, the Sala de Socis of the Club Natació Banyoles will host the session 'Daily food of a performance athlete', by Elena Piñeiro. Aimed at athletes aged 14 to 18 and their families, this session will provide the keys to have good habits and a proper diet. The talk will take place from 20:45 to 22:00 and is open to anyone interested.

This Monday, April 24 will be a working session around the 'invisible' training and its importance by Pau Vela, physiotherapist and international sportist (Olympic Games in Rio). It will be at 19:30 in the Sala de Socis of the Club Natació Banyoles. This activity is exclusively for the athletes who are part of the project.

The ICDC project, that started in 2016 and plans to end in 2018, is reaching the equator. And to celebrate it presents a new promotional video, in which they explain the main objectives of the project and where there are some of the project participants -from different sports-. You can watch it here.

During March there have been different sessions of the ICDC project led by Club Natació Banyoles. The families of athletes between 13 and 21 years old who are part of the project or could be part have been summoned with the purpose of explaining in detail what it consists of, what the objectives are and how it will become concrete in the coming months.