The Student Recreation Center is available to all students, and many community members.
Located across from Kreischer, the Rec Center provides basketball, racquetball and volleyball courts, pools, a track, weight rooms and a climbing wall.
Thad Long, associate director of Recreational Sports, said the Rec Center also offers programs, including classes to teach people badminton or how to swim.
‘Students can come in at 6 in the morning and work out in the pool or run on the track,’ Long said.
According to the Rec Center’s Web site, the fee for using the rooms, courts and equipment is included in tuition and fees for full-time undergraduates and graduates, so students only need to scan their BG1 card upon entering.
Long said they are continually looking for ways to enhance the Rec Center’s facilities and provide new ways for students to keep healthy.
Last January, the Wellness Connection became a part of the Rec Center.
‘It was something our director wanted to do for some time,’ Long said.
He said this way, the Rec Center can focus on the physical component of staying healthy while having access to health education.
Faith Yingling, director of Wellness, said some of the services the Wellness Connection provided included peer education and free and confidential HIV testing.
‘We are kind of the education and programming arm of recreation and wellness,’ Yingling said.
The Wellness Connection’s offices are located next to the basketball courts in the Rec Center.
Students can also get more information off their Web site, at www.bgsu.edu/recwell.
‘I think it’s important for students to have access to the information,’ Yingling said, ‘Whether it’s information on exercise or stress or sexual assault or drugs or alcohol.’
Rec Center Information
Fall 2009 Hours: Monday – Thursday 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday Noon to 9 p.m. Sunday Noon to 11 p.m
Fall Pool Hours: Monday- Friday Cooper: 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Andrews: Noon to 8 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday Cooper: Noon to 8 p.m. Andrews: Noon to 8 p.m.
