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Student Rec Center set to open Aug. 2
□ The $36.4 million
complex will provide
jobs and recreation for
A&M students.
Staff and Wire Reports
On Aug. 26, Texas A&M stu
dents will finally get to see
what all the hype — and the ex
tra $50 on their fee statements
— is all about.
On the Saturday before fall
classes begin, the Student Recre
ation Center will open its doors
for the first time.
“What we’ve planned to do is
give the keys to the building to
the student body president (Toby
Boeing), who will then dedicate
the building to the students,”
Assistant Director of Recreation
al Sports Judy Reising said.
“This will start at 6 p.m., and
the students will pretty much
have the run of the place until
about 2 a.m.”
Construction began on the
center in 1994, but the opening
has been delayed several times
because of various problems.
The $36.4 million building
takes up 286,000 square feet on
A&M’s West Campus and is ad
jacent to Olsen Field.
The $50-per-semester fee en
titles A&M students the use of
nearly everything in the complex
from 6 a.m. to midnight on
weekdays and from 10 a.m. to
midnight on weekends.
“Use of lockers, along with
the exercise classes
will cost additional,”
Reising said. “However
on Monday through
Saturday, we will offer
one free exercise class
for students who don’t
have the time or
money to make the
other classes.”
One of the most
prominent features of
the center is the natato-
rium, which will be the
new home for the Texas
A&M Men’s and Wom
en’s Swimming and
Diving Teams.
The natatorium is
comprised of a 50-me
ter, eight-lane competi
tion pool, a 17-foot deep
diving pool with 1-, 3-,
5-, 7 and 1/2- and IO
meter platforms. The
natatorium has 1,300
seats and room for up to
1,200 additional tempo
rary seats.
The Student Recre- The nearly-completed natatorium at the Student
ational Center will A&M Swimming and Diving Teams and host the
host the 1996 Big
12 Swimming and Diving
Championships. Reising said
the athletic department is in
the process of courting several
other tournaments for the
natatorium.
The center will offer some
thing for everyone, regardless of
what sport they enjoy.
On the third floor of the fa
cility is a 1/4-mile, four-lane
track for walking and jogging.
At the front of the facility, the
track passes next to an obser
vational window that overlooks
Olsen Field.
A&M’s first permanent rock-
climbing wall is located inside
the center and allows students
to climb four stories with the
help of handholds and
A 42-foot tall rock climbing wall is part of the new Student Recreational Center.
footholds. Students must pass
a skills test before attempting
to climb.
For more conventional
sporting areas, there are eight
multipurpose gyms for basket
ball, volleyball, soccer and bad
minton, along with 12 racquet-
ball courts.
In the outside activity area,
there are four sand volleyball
courts and several basketball
courts, all with fiberglass back-
boards.
Currently, all intramural
games are held in the Read
Building and G. Rollie White
Coliseum. Reising said the
plan is to move ‘A’ and ‘B’
intramural leagues to the new
facility while ‘C’ and ‘D’ will
remain at Read and G.
Rollie White.
“We feel this will encourage
more people to join intramu
rals to have a chance to play in
the new building and encour
age people to play in a higher
bracket,” Reising said.
The center also houses one
50-seat and one 150-seat
classroom on the second
floor. It has four 2,000-
square-foot activity rooms
| and a large special events
room with a seating ca
pacity for a 430-person
banquet.
Fully-equipped
locker rooms are
available on the first
floor, along with
staff offices for
coaches, lifeguards
and pool personnel.
For those into
lighter activity,
the first floor
houses several
areas
video
games
with
Photos courtesyok,
Recreational Center willb
Big 12 Championships in
games, board games a.' ,
tennis. A snack area:
cepts Aggie Bucks will:
as well as a retail sar
for clothing and sport •
ment.
Perhaps the most:,
sive part of the new
the 14,000-square-foo'i;
and fitness room. The
fers machine weigh:*
weights and cardiovd
equipment.
A very special feato -
locker rooms is what is *
as the family changing:
“This is helpful es;‘.
for graduate student'
families,” Reising said '
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stead of having to take:.
the men’s locker room
can be used by caretai
people with disabilities
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ter provide students cj'
ty of opportunities fr:
ational activity, butital*
vides them with another
for working on campus.
The Recreational' 1
Department currentlyis'
applications for mors
200 jobs at the center
ing workers for the:*
ics department, eqiii:
room attendants an '
leaders.
Trip leaders work'
junction with the TAM
doors program whichf-
variety of clinics, won
and trips that vary it
and destination.
Information on ap
for jobs can be obtained
ing the Rec Sports of
845-7826.
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