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Sports and Recreation Activities:
   KFUPM has both intercollegiate atheletic teams and intramural teams. University teams have traveled across Saudi Arabia to Riyadh and Jeddah and outside the Kingdom for Atheletic Competitions. The intercollegiate sports in which University teams participate include basketball, football, volleyball, handball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, track and field, judo, karate, squash badminton and taekwondo.
At the intramural level, the teams from student housing area compete against each other in basketball, swimming, football, volleyball, track and field, cross country and tennis.

   The Sports Hall area located on the Jebel contains the latest in modern indoor physical education facilities. Included are areas for basketball, volleyball, gymnastics handball, squash, table tennis, judo taekwondo, karate, weight training and many other sports activities. Shower and changing rooms plus seating areas for spectators are also provided. Adjacent to the gymnasium is an Olympic swimming and diving pool with its own shower and changing rooms.
The third main area of sports facilities is a floodlit soccer and atheletics stadium with seating for 10,000 people, an excellent field house and spectator facilities. The playing area is a "super turf" artificial grass field. A weight training room (extended this year) and physical therapy unit are also available in the stadium.

     Sports and Recreation Facilities are in three large areas ideally situated on the main campus.
The mid campus area has a 25-meter swimming pool, indoor student shower and changing facilities, two soccer pitches (one with an artificial grass "super turf" surface), a handball/six-a-side court, nine tennis courts, athletic track, basketball, volleyball courts, four squash courts, a weight training room, and two rooms equipped with television and video facilities to aid the teaching and coaching of all sports. There is also an environmental chamber for use in Physical Education research plus administrative offices for the department.

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