Abstract
The present research aims to analyse the role of sport and health laboratories in developing
the insights of Sports Science and Technology towards Faculty of Sport Science students in
Universitas Negeri Semarang (FSS Unnes). The research conducted by using qualitative
approach and ethnography design with critical ethnography type. Data sources collected from
research informants by using Purposive Sampling and Snowball. Data collection technique
used observation, interview, and documentation study. Data analysis used inductively by
using Miles and Huberman interactive cycle. The results show that The Role of Sport and
Health Laboratories of FSS Unnes in developing Sports Science and Technology towards
sport science students indicated quite maximal contribution, with the sport and health
laboratories provided in FSS Unnes, students could directly apply the materials they learned
during lectures, they also could have skills to evaluate athletes’ training programs, regulate
the pattern of good nutritional intake for athletes and apply technology in physical education
and other sport sciences.