Elon University
Elon, NC
MISSION
Elon University Campus Recreation provides quality fitness and recreational experiences designed to positively impact the development of Elon students and contribute to the holistic well-being of the campus community.
FACILITIES
The 58,000 square foot Koury Center is the primary indoor facility, which includes a gymnasium, six-lane pool, two-level fitness center, two group fitness studios, and five racquetball courts. Other recreational facilities include three satellite gymnasiums; two satellite fitness centers; eight recreational fields; a clubhouse adjacent to the recreational fields that includes an athletic training room; a driving range with two putting greens; and a challenge course with 16 low elements, two high elements, and a high ropes circuit that ends with a zip line.
PROGRAMS
The nearly 6,000 Elon University students engage in a variety of recreational activities including 24 club sports, 20 intramural sports offerings a year, more than 25 group fitness classes a week, personal training, outdoors trips, special events, and more. Last year Campus Recreation had more than 2,000 intramural sports unique participants, 1,000 club sports participants, and 1,000 group fitness passholders.
FUN FACTS
- Over 218,000 students, faculty and staff utilized indoor recreational facilities in 2015-2016.
- SportsFest is one of the longest running traditions in Campus Recreation. Held on the first Friday of the fall semester classes, the event is a team field day format that draws more than 700 students, 500 of which are first-year students, for an afternoon of fun and games.
- Athletic training services are available for all club sports participants and the general student body through a full-time athletic trainer who works out of a full-service training facility in Harden Club House.
- In Spring 2016, Elon Campus Recreation started Love Your Body Week, a five day series of events in collaboration with Dining Services, Health Promotion and several student organizations to put a positive spin on National Eating Disorders Week. Activities included students writing on cards about why they love their body that were displayed in the rec facility, chair massages, a smoothie bar, and a healthy cooking class. There was also a women’s lifting clinic and the week culminated with a Zumba class in our main gymnasium with more than 230 participants.
- Adventures in Leadership is a first-year summer wilderness experience that takes place in New River Gorge in West Virginia. The program has been introducing new Elon students to the University and college life in general since the early 1990’s, making it one of the first programs of its kind.
