University Recreation would like to inform all students who are graduating this spring semester of the opportunity to purchase a Recent Graduate Membership. The Recent Graduate Membership is good for the entire semester immediately following graduation and includes access to all facilities listed below. The price is $45/person. Family members are not eligible or included in the price. Memberships can be purchased at the UREC Main Office [HPER 225] during operating hours with proof of graduation. 

The main facility for the department of University Recreation is the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building at 155 N. Stadium Dr. Highlights include the Donna Axum Fitness Center, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, four basketball courts, an indoor track, group fitness studios, functional training areas, cycle studio, racquetball courts, bouldering and climbing walls, UREC Outdoors and locker and shower facilities.

The UREC Fitness Center, conveniently located in the middle of the U of A campus on the second floor of the Arkansas Union, features almost 6,000 square feet of gym floor space and fully equipped men's and women's locker and shower facilities.

The UREC Sports Complex, located at 1486 Mitchell St., offers one competition and practice club sports surface, four intramural playing surfaces and two sand volleyball courts. It is recommended that participants bring their own equipment with them, but equipment items such as footballs, soccer balls, sand volleyballs, Frisbees, etc. are available for checkout from the service center inside the complex.

The UREC Tennis Center is located at 1357 W. Indian Trail, east of Razorback Road and behind the Chick-Fil-A on Martin Luther King Boulevard. The UREC Tennis Center features 12 tennis courts, including four courts with backboards to allow for individual play, and a service facility that includes an equipment checkout center and restrooms. It is recommended that participants bring their own equipment with them to play. Equipment such as tennis racquets, tennis balls and pickleball racquets are available to check out, but on a limited basis.

The department of University Recreation is a major campuswide service unit in the Division of Student Affairs. The mission of University Recreation is to empower students for success through recreation and wellness.  

For additional information about University Recreation, please visit urec.uark.edu. If you have any questions, please call 479-575-4646 or email urec@uark.edu.

Congratulations to all spring 2023 graduates. Go Hogs!