The meeting was held between the representatives from Finland – Lotte Uutinen (President of Finnish Student Sport federation); from Estonia – Ants Veetousme (President of Estonian Academic Sports Federation), Tarmo Jaakson (Secretary General), Vahur Teppan (SELL Games 2014 president); from Lithuania Česlovas Garbaliauskas (President of Lithuanian Students Sports Association) and from Latvia Agita Abele (President of Latvian University Sports Federation), Liga Eihvalde (Secretary General) and Ilvis Abelkalns (Board member). It was a very productive and useful meeting were all representatives illustrate their perspectives and thoughts about the future of the SELL Student Games.

 

This was the also the first meeting for Latvian University Sport Federation's new President Mrs Agita Abele. Mrs Abele is full of inspiration and ready to keep going active for the development of student sport in Latvia. 

 

 

With the new president and new events Latvia starts XXIII Universiade. The 23rd Latvian Universiade Opening ceremony was held in Riga at the end of October where over 500 Athletes from Latvian Universities got together and tried to find the most successful University in Latvia in six different kinds of sports - boxing, kickboxing, chess, cheerleading competitions, power lifting and freestyle wrestling. This was the first step in Latvian Universiade, having monthly competitions until May 2013.