Working while getting a double major in math and physics can be very stressful, and senior Luis Allen likes to relieve that stress by going running every day in the Field House.
The Field House is just one of the many recreation facilities that is open to U students. Other facilities include the HPER complex and the golf course.
The Field House
Located across from Rice-Eccles Stadium, the Field House is a place where students can exercise between classes.
To use the Field House, one needs to be a member of Campus Recreation, but students become members simply by paying their standard student fees, including a $12.98 recreation fee.
To get into the Field House, students just have to show their UCards at the door.
Once inside, students have access to circuit weights, cardio machines, indoor tennis courts, handball/racquetball courts, squash courts, a 200-meter jogging track and a dance studio.
“I don’t have to worry about (finding) a machine-I’m almost always able to get on what I want,” said Danell Hathaway, who works in the modern dance department.
Student Chad Holmes, a senior in business, often goes to the Field House to lift weights and do aerobics. Though he likes the cardio equipment, Holmes describes the current weights as “kind of weak.” That will change before school starts. According to Cheri Jenkins, associate director for Campus Rec., the Field House has purchased a brand new set of free weights as well as plate-loaded weights. The new weight room will be on one of the tennis courts.
HPER
Located next to the Huntsman Center, HPER is where many of the university’s fitness courses, such as basketball, aerobics, yoga and racquetball, are taught.
HPER is also home to gymnasiums for basketball and volleyball, a weight room, racquetball courts, two swimming pools and a diving well.
Currently, the diving well is closed as workers complete a five-month construction project to fix the pipes under the well that were leaking water. Around the beginning of school, the diving well will reopen, this time with a new diving board, aquatics supervisor Shawn Franklin said.
Golf
The U is home to a nine-hole golf course that students can play on for $4 per game. Cost for non-students is $7. For students who play a lot, the golf course offers a deal where students pay $35 up front and then $1 for every subsequent game they play.
