Enter for a Chance to Win Free UREC Semester Membership
University Recreation invites all current U of A faculty and staff to enter to win a free UREC semester membership! To be entered into the drawing, please complete this form. Winners will be randomly selected and notified after Friday, Sept. 22.
If you have any questions, please call the UREC Main Office during office hours at 479-575-4646 or email us at urec@uark.edu. A UREC membership grants members access to all UREC locations listed below.
The main facility for the Department of University Recreation is the Health, Physical Education and Recreation (HPER) building, located at 155 N. Stadium Dr. Highlights include the Donna Axum Fitness Center, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, four basketball courts, an indoor track, a group fitness studio, 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 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 [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 Tr. off of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Fayetteville. The UREC Tennis Center features 12 tennis courts (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 www.urec.uark.edu.
Contacts
Kelsey Harelson , assistant director
University Recreation
479-575-2842,
kgharels@uark.edu
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