NSK: University Competition
Each university sends a team with their city's best runners. This makes the University Competition (UC) also a challenge for the most avid runners.
For several years now, the Topicus University Competition of the Batavierenrace has received the status of a Dutch Student Championship. This ensures high prestige in Dutch student sports.
Every year several NSKs are organized in over 50 sports. This is done under the auspices of Student Sport Netherlands (SSN). The SSN is a national organization that serves as an umbrella for local sports councils. Click here for more information about the SSN.
As with any serious competition, there are strict rules governing participation in the Topicus University Competition. The rules are based on the following objective of the Topicus University Competition: to create a healthy rivalry among universities to promote the honor and prestige of winning the Topicus University Competition. The rules are outlined in the registration regulations and the competition regulations.
Team captain for the University Competition
The team captain of a University Competition team (UC team) takes care of the registration of the team and is also responsible for a number of other matters. For example, the UC team captain arranges transport, food and, if necessary, sleeping. The team captain can order vouchers for the entire team; more information about this will follow later. In addition, a UC team captain makes sure that the proofs of enrolment of all runners are delivered to the Organisation Committee on time.
Registering a team is possible from 9 November 2026, 00:00. More information about registration can be found here.
Important documents
The team captain script gives a good overview of the tasks a team captain has to carry out: it outlines what the team captain has to do and arrange in the coming months. The script is written for the team captains of the General Competition (GC), so for a UC team captain the information about registration and proofs of enrolment differs. The rest of the information applies to both GC and UC team captains.
What is different for a UC team captain is that no 3 proofs of enrolment have to be submitted at registration. Instead, later in the year at least 20 consent forms will be requested, one from every runner.
For questions about the University Competition of the 55th Batavierenrace, please contact the Organisation Committee.
