SPORT PARTICIPATION AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNDERGRADUATES

Introduction

Sports is a some kind of physical activity which move individual or group for the having entertainment sport is all forms of usual competitive physical activities, which through casual or organize participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and stills will skills or entertainment to participants. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport) Sports is a concept that having variety of physical activities which are doing for several purposes. And sporting ability of an individual shows the personality level. Sport is depends on the rules which are help to have fair competition among the participants to treat each and every one as same. Also sports can be seen as physical and Non physical way. Every human doing verity of sporting activity throughout their life time.

Academic performance can be defined as great outcome of the education. Which mean what kind of knowledge attitude and skills are gain through the education. Academic achievement is commonly measured by examination or continuous assessment but there is no general agreement on how it is best tested or which aspects are most important. Individual differences in academic performance have been link to different intelligence and personality. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_achievement)

University systems of Sri Lanka providing wider range of sporting Facilities such as grounds and other equipments to the undergraduates. Although the government annually allocates submission amount of financial resources to facilitate those requirements through budget they were not distribute equal manner. And some university does not have basic sport equipments as well.