Ashtin Hyde
Staff Writer
ashtin.hyde@hawks.shorter.edu
The wellness center is now open for all students, faculty and staff to enjoy. With a variety of exercise equipment available, the new facility provides students with a convenient and free place to work out.
“Student wellness is a big thing,” said Vice President of Student Affairs Corey Hum- phries. “This new facility will increase and enhance opportunities for student and faculty wellness.”
The facility includes a mul- titude of brand new exercise equipment along with televi- sions across the walls for users to enjoy while working out. Treadmills, bikes, ellipticals, exercise machines, kettlebells, and a punching bag are a few of the many types of exercise equipment that have been purchased.
Student Life Graduate Assis- tant Miles Mendiola is manag- ing the wellness center and is excited for everything that it has to offer to users.
“It is a great and free place to work out,” said Mendiola. “We are already looking to the possibility of doing workout classes and having students act as personal trainers.”
Mendiola is not the only one excited for this new facility. Within the first week of it being open, over 400 people utilized the workout area.
Sophomore sports management major Luke Jarrett said, “The fact that I do not have to drive down the street, I can just walk from my dorm is awesome.”
The wellness center has also created new work study jobs for students. Senior nursing major Abby Patrick is one of the 18 students hired to work in the facility.
“I get to watch students enjoy the area and I get to see new faces that I have never seen before,” said Patrick.
The hours of the facility are Monday-Thursday (7 a.m.-11 p.m.), Friday (7 a.m.-7 p.m.), Saturday (9 a.m.-2 p.m.) and Sunday (5 p.m.-10 p.m.).
In a message to the students Humphries said, “It is yours, so it is your responsibility to take care of it. We love each of you and wanted to make this happen for you.”
As classes have begun and the school year is getting in motion, students, faculty and staff are encouraged to go and try out the new wellness center.
“If you have not seen it yet, go and check it out,” said Mendiola.
“Make a schedule, stick to it, and enjoy it because that is what it is there for.”
