This research is to investigate the social demand for “Sports-Oriented Universities". And this is one of many researches, whose basic aim is to clarify the possibility of establishing networks for contributing to extensive sports activities and athletes training activities.

    The aim of this research is to explain how the participants accepted the Athlete Support Program in the sport course for strengthening elite players, which had been held by “A" prefecture High School Athletic Federation twice a year in 2001 and 2002.

The research shows as follows;

1. The contents of the program are absorbed by the participants and lead to the positive recognition in their later sports lives.

2. The program was accepted positively by the participants and they recognized the main theme of the program, which is the importance of the intellectual part of sports. And finally, the program roused their desire to apply the intellectual part of sports effectively to their later sports lives.