Top 10 Best College Fitness Centers – UniversitiesRankings.com

Today the state-of-the-art student recreation centers are making the college gyms of classical look nearly undefined. The top rated university fitness centers compete on a level among the excellent private clubs in the countryside. Furthermore, dedicated significant space to weight machines, aerobic equipment, and free weights, the well-improved university gyms also include components such as bouldering, rock climbing, sand volleyball, whirlpools, indoor tracks, Pilates saunas, golf simulators, and martial arts studios, etc.

From artistic and environmental viewpoints, they also shine. Several of the recreational centers we assessed are champions of various notable design citations. A great amount of them were also produced with environmental and performance criteria in mind and finally got LEED ratings from the USGBC.

Advanced student entertainment centers combine worth to an education on dissimilar levels. Students are given access to extra distinct openings for recreation and physical fitness. Aesthetically, such facilities improve the look and charm of the college campus. These support to improve student’s well-being, health and the condition of overall college life.

Since the significant position these facilities participate in university life, our editors sought to follow the trend more strongly and spent numerous weeks studying the latest freshman entertainment and school fitness centers. During the survey, they visited the University official websites, regional and local news sources, and portfolios of project management, architecture, and construction firms specialty vendors.

They seemed for the facilities that allowed both exceptional events for physical fun and also attention to form aspect and aesthetics. They were mainly involved in plans that feature working effectiveness and sustainability.

Best College Gyms and Recreational Centers

Subsequent reviewing these colleges and handfuls further extraordinary applicants, we concluded that the TEN outlined institutes in our ranking list are the best of the best College Fitness centers. These claim to have the high standards through which different student recreation events will be assessed for years to come. We have listed them here by the given points in our point system (upward to downward ). In the case of a tie, we placed the facilities alphabetically by the Institute name.

1. Campus Recreation Center, University of Arizona

The campus recreational center of the University of Arizona claims to be the best and top rated college fitness center in our ranking. It is a well known and most enhanced student recreational center in the countryside. Furthermore the standard fitness facilities are equipment for bouldering sand volleyball. It got a LEED Platinum rating that is known as the leading rating possible. It boasts standing alone as the sole LEED Platinum facility in our ranking list. It won 13 points in our rankings, and its points detail is as follows:

Major design award: 4
Regional design award: 4
LEED Platinum: 3
“Wow” factor: 1 (bouldering)
Sports particular award: 1
Total Points : 13

It won many awards making it stand one the first spot in ur ranking list, Its awards are:

Awards:

Best of 2010 – Best Sports/Recreation Project in Arizona-Southwest Contractor magazine.
Merit Award – Orange County Chapter-American Institute of Architects.
Common Ground Award Finalist – Architecture, Planning & Design-Metropolitan Pima Alliance (2010).
IDEAS Award, National Certificate of Recognition-American Institute of Steel Construction.
ASUI Facility Design Award-Association of College Unions International (ACUI).
Outstanding Sports Facilities Award-National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA).
Excellence in Structural Engineering Award, State of Arizona-Structural Engineering Association.

Further Details about the Center :

Architect: Sasaki
Completed in: 2010
Total Cost: $22.7 million
Square Feet: 54,000 (expansion only); 108,000 total (2.7 sq. ft. per student)
Enrollment: 40,233
LEED Certification: Platinum

List of Top 10 Best College Fitness Centers in 2016 Rankings

Rank	Centers	Points
1.	University of Arizona Campus Recreation Center	13
2.	Virginia Commonwealth University Cary Street Gym	12
3.	Colorado State University Student Recreation Center	10
4.	California State University, North-ridge Student Recreation Center	9
5.	Ohio State University Recreation & Physical Activity Center (RPAC)	8
6.	Illinois State University Student Fitness Center	8
7.	University of Iowa Campus Recreation and Wellness Center	7
8.	California State University, Long Beach Recreation and Wellness Center	7
9.	University of Maine New Balance Student Recreation Center	6
10.	Morehead State University Recreation and Wellness Center	6

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