- Bryan Lenz, Director of Recreational Programs
- blenz@wustl.edu
- Office of Recreation Programs and Services
- Club sports
- Fitness
- Informal rec
- Intramural sports
- Aquatics
- Gary Sumers Recreation Center, Fall 2016
- Reimagining REC/Wellness Services
- Get students off-campus and take advantage of natural resources
- Integrate wellness services
- Not just a space to break a sweat
- 8 dimensional model
- Partnering Habif
- Outfitting a wing like a genius bar for wellness services
- Can come in and talk about a range of issues and pick up information about things like healthy eating, relationships and so on
- De-stigmatize some thoughts about psychological health services
- g offer a heated Vinyasa yoga
- Draw in students that aren’t traditional yoga students
- Outfitting some rooms with massage chairs
- Quiet space for students to go and unplug
- Cycle studio
- Group exercise studio (one of three)
- Chic space, get students to paint it
- Incorporate technology and appeal to the student population
- Three-court gym dedicated to the student population, will not be kicked out by practice
- Suspended track around the basketball court
- Fitness area
- WashU Rec goals
- Be the best part of your day
- Maximum participation
- Create a vibrant 3rd place for students to socialize and be active
- ‘soft-spaces’ where students can chat and chill
- Create an all-inclusive membership experience for students
- De-stigmatize the Sumers Recreational Centre
- Working on getting funding for the resources/classes (so that membership is free for students)
- Incorporate student input in our operations/programming
- Create different committees or tasks force with different stakeholders to provide input
- Questions
- Talk to dining services to have a little protein shake/café?
- Got cut out of early stages for financial reasons, not as successful as we think it would be (done market research)
- Staff were typically the ones coming in to purchase food and drinks
- There’s a vending area, can be more creative with that. Is there a vending machine that can make a smoothie?
- Are there any nutritional classes or programs to educate students about fitness and health?
- Incorporate as many wellness program as possible
- Integration of wellness carves out a space for a wide array of cross-programming
- Success at his previous institution: Wellness Wednesday
- Most popular was the dietician coming in with recipes
- Talk to dining services to have a little protein shake/café?
- What are fees for the new recreational center? (use of anyone)
- Free for full-time students
- Still doing market study to see how much it will be for staff and faculty
- Staff wellness a big focus for HR, meeting with them soon
- Competitive with what we charge, have a great product/facility to sell but it is an expensive facility to operate. Need to unlock some revenue streams
- $250-$300 a year for staff, tiered membership (alumni and affiliate, spouse and partner rate)
- Have there been any students that have approached you that they want something to be an IM or club sport?
- Working on swim
- Limiting factor is pool space, only time it is not in use is M-F 9:30am – 11:30am
- Trying to uncover some pool time with diving and water polo teams
- South campus fields good for sports clubs
- Sumers going to provide the opportunity to offer some more creative sports
- Come up with new and cool programs that aren’t IM sports. Across the country we see a decline in IM sports and an increase in group exercise classes
- Think differently and uncover other events that aren’t the traditional flag football to appeal to a wider audience
- g rock paper scissors in Vegas
- Is there more space for group fitness? Is there more staffing for group fitness?
- Currently we have 1 group exercise dance studio and the converted racket ball court in the AC
- Sumers: cycle and two other flexible group exercise spaces
- Have 40-45 group exercise classes a week, currently at 20-25
- Contract that out, go to the community and recruit instructors
- What are some opportunities to go outdoors in Eastern University?
- Kayaking in Creve Couer Lake
- Shawnee National Park
- Need to do more investigation, consider more of these options to get students off campus and talk about wellness from a different side
- Sign up/technology system for the new centre?
- Working with a new management system that will allow them to track everything easily
- Discussion
- Didn’t touch on education for using the equipment correctly
- Significant number of people working in the facility: student trainers and other staff to make sure correct usage of equipment and to wipe it down after
- Promotion
- Tour of the AC
- Health and wellness event (reach 1,000,000 steps by a date)
- Committee and task force for first 6 months
- SU retreat to the Ozarks
- Didn’t touch on education for using the equipment correctly
- Tuition Forum, November 16th 8pm
- Meeting with Barb Feiner to talk about how to structure the presentation tomorrow, talk to Nicole if you have a socioeconomic issue you want to add to the list
- Hand out a sheet to everyone with general statistics?
- How much artsci spends a year?
- What are the other sources of money?
- WUFUSED: have all of the slides available for people to look at before and after
- Presentation on Solar Panels by Amelia and Stella
- Updates
- Exec
- Appeal from SPB approved
- Treasury
- Hearing appeals
- Advisor
- Nominations for Emerging Leaders program
- Judicial
- Exec
- Open forum
- WILD happy hour on Thursday, sponsors will be there
- WILD on Friday