OLL board members 2012 from left to right: Lotte Uutinen, Janne Pakarinen, Saila Huhtiranta, Silva Loikkanen
VIERUMÄKI – “OLL”, the Finnish Student Sports Federation, held its general assembly at the Vierumäki Sports Institute in early November. On the agenda was, among other issues, the election of the board members for the year 2012. The federation will be led next year by Lotte Uutinen, a twenty-four years old nursery student from Arcada University of Applied Sciences. Currently Uutinen is a member of the executive committee in the Union of Students in Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences.
The new vice presidents are Saila Huhtiranta from Tampere University of Technology and Silva Loikkanen from theUniversityofHelsinki. Janne Pakarinen from Unisport Helsinki will continue in the board as a representative of University Sport Services.
The opening speech of the general assembly was given by Risto Nieminen, chief executive of the national lottery association Veikkaus Ltd. and honorary member ofFISU. Nieminen emphasized the importance of participation and enthusiasm in sport and stated that more resources should be directed to practice in fields and arenas instead of paperwork and bureaucracy.
(Source: Jukka Tirri, OLL Sports Director)
Lotte Uutinen