Student Rec Center works out new changes
Story by Ashley Thomas | October 2009

 

The Student Recreation Center underwent a facelift the summer of 2009, with new equipment, new programs, and a new look.

“We had a very busy summer,” Ken Baker said, the director of campus recreation since 2000.

A new floor was put in, renovations to the workout studio were made, and new machines and lockers were added to the SRC. 

The Student Apportionment Board donated $31,000 for the new lockers and the new spin cycles. 139 new lockers, were made available for student and faculty use, twice as many as the previously available open access cubbies.

Matt Brichetto, a sophomore marketing major and SRC worker said the lockers are the number one change the students talk about most because they provide a safe place to store their belongings.

The AB also donated 15 spin cycles for the new cycling program the SRC began offering that year.

The cycling room itself was also a new improvement to the back studio Baker said.

“Only two-thirds of the room was being used during the most popular classes, so we took that third that wasn’t being used properly and turned it into the new cycling room.”

The room holds the 15 cycles and also has a sound system, a projector and a projection screen for a class that has been widely popular with students.

The spin cycle class is an instructor guided, simulated bicycling course. The cycle machine is a concise version of a normal bicycle with only one front wheel.

“It is part of a larger vision to repaint and renovate the SRC to hopefully make it a source of pride for our students, faculty, staff and administrators,” Program Director Sarah Daugherty said. “Not only for its content but also for its style.”

The new blue, gray and white color scheme in the SRC is now coordinated with the walls, furniture and the floor.

“It should promote school spirit and pride,” Baker said.