About a year ago, students were very excited about all of the changes on campus especially in the new gymnasium. Thanks to former SGA president Hendrick Maison, James Tomkins, Raymond Burgess, and new department head of Health and Human Performance Dr. Marsha Wilson, there will be even more changes made in the new gymnasium to further accomodate the students.
The pool area of the new gym is now open and is used regularly for classes. In the summer, the pool will be open for all students to utilize.
Racketball court seven will eventually, it will be changed to a cardiovascular room with a television, DVD and VHS player available to students.
The gymnasium will operate seven days a week instead of the current five. Facility coordinator James Tompkins said “this incentive is to give students something else to do on Sundays.”
The Health and Human Performance team has been busy at work trying to renovate the new gym and the Baby Dome to give back to the students.
SGA helped produce the funds to allow this project to take place.
Soon the additon of a computer lab and a physiology lab will be completed.”
To get all of the things open for student use, we will need continuous support from SGA and the students here on campus,” says Tompkins.
To keep students safe and to monitor all of the traffic in and out of the new gym, a card swipe machine will be put into effect.
Not only will there be changes in the new gym, renovations are coming soon for the Baby Dome. There are plans to take down the wall in room 117 and make it a new weight room. Tompkins says that he plans to get “Cadillac weights” which are pretty expensive weights so that our students can have the very best.
“At first, no one wanted to take the responsibility for the project, but to me, working for the students is my job,” says James Tompkins.