UO Student Recreation Center Review

Great amenities, friendly staff, fantastic hours. There are things to do for every skill level. The changing rooms are clean.

Really disappointed in the decision to cut the Fitness Block hours short to a 10pm close. Can't stress enough how much it meant to me to have a place to workout where I didn't have to wait too long for equipment.

The gym is already very congested as it is and the fitness block was a haven to us late-night regulars. Had to end my workout early last night when I was forced to transfer to the other weights room and couldn't find open equipment for my routine.

I sincerely hope UO Rec reconsiders this change. It doesn't seem like a very costly adjustment to open one room for 2 more hours every night and provides a lot of value to students with busy schedules who just want to workout.

Thanks!

This is a big step up from when I was a student. Airy, bright and clean. The architecture inside and out is very cool too. It is a great addition to the University of Oregon campus. Can't wait to see how it looks next to the new Hayward field.

As a place offering a multitude of sports and games options, it is pretty cool. However, if you only come here to workout and exercise then it just looks pretty and lacks a lot of functional equipment. It doesn't make sense but they have like 30 gyms and lack a lot of functional machines. You can tell where they tried to save money with a lot of the multi-purpose machines but slow these machines don't adapt to the human body will it actually wind up hurting you, they're just not good machines. Also to add on to other reviews, this place is pretty bad about inconsistently enforcing rules and not others. I did see a guy set his cell phone on top of his water bottle out in the open and nobody said anything. On the wall it says to put all of your stuff away but nobody seems to care about anything other than bags for some weird reason. I'm not talking about giant duffle bags, I'm talking about a normal drawstring bag that any serious lifter might have, they always make sure to come over and say something about it. I'm pretty sure that a cell phone breaking into multiple pieces across the floor is more dangerous than a small bag that everybody can noticeably see. When I confronted a staff member about this, he said that their management actually told them to lay off people about the cell phones but they want them to enforce the bags, and that doesn't make sense to me. Another noticeable thing that they have done is that they have taken away the comment cards, probably because other people were complaining about the same issues and they didn't want to deal with it. Otherwise this place could really use an increase in hours, because tuition is actually pretty expensive and if we have this much taken out intuition to use the facility and it should be open longer than it is preferably 24 hours

Place is legit. Lots of basketball courts good competition from students and the college athletes that show up. Basketball games usually played Monday/Wednesday/Friday 11am-3pm cost about 10 for non students and 6 for people who get sponsored by a student

I found a cockroach in the tallest racquetball court.
Which is an amazing court, don't get me wrong.
That roach had clearly been lifting though.
Taking advantage of the facility amenities at night while no one was there probably.
Great facility though.
I bet a free year membership would clear my memory of that beast of a roach.

Lots of cool stuff, but a serious lack of free weights /machines becomes apparent whenever it gets busy, which is pretty much always during the term from 8 to 8.

The SRC is fabulous facility with so much to offer. Top notch!

It's only open to students, but I think you might be able to buy a membership. It's really comprehensive in all the different activities that can be done from rock climbing to swimming, to an indoor track to every kind of equipment you can think of. I don't go enough when I'm a student, and I miss it too much when I'm off for the summer.