James Ashrafi-Tari is a third year History student who is an American Football enthusiast. His passion for sport extends as far as writing his dissertation on it!
He thinks it is important to represent the needs of the students in the University, in particular regarding sport at York. He hopes to continue with the success York has been seeing recently as well as improving on a few fundamental issues that sport has raised.
His main goal is to increase participation in sport: greater success will come with greater participation. He will take part in a bigger push for involvement in college sport as well as developing disability sports. He wants to encourage more post-grad students and international students to involve themselves. His second main aim is to increase funding. He believes sport is underfunded compared to many of the universities that York competes against, and he hopes to improve that either by pushing for funding or attaining more sponsorship. He also wants to extend the strength and conditioning program, he knows the team with access to it have benefitted from it and he would like to make it available to other clubs who have shown interest too. He’d also look into the possibility of linked programs, such as physiotherapy.
He juggles and likes magic, but thinks his hands are too big and clumsy to be any good at it himself!