2025 Grand Opening: 4th Floor Fitness Space
As of January 3, 2025, Sports & Recreation has opened a brand new 4th Floor Fitness Area in the Western Student Recreation Centre. This new weight room fitness space is managed by Western Campus Recreation, and is housed in the newly retrofitted Blue Gym on the 4th floor of the Western Student Recreation Centre (WSRC).
With the continued growth of our university, Sports & Recreation is seeing increased demand for additional indoor sport and recreation spaces on campus, and we are consistently working to find facility-use alternatives that will have minimal impact to offering our existing popular programming.
This new space is an added alternative to Campus Recreation’s original fitness space on the main level of the WSRC, and will help Sports & Recreation adapt to an evolving and growing student body.
250-300 students accessed the Western Campus Recreation existing weight room every hour last term. Converting the Blue gym (one of six in the WSRC, which is approximately 6000 sq feet in size) to a fitness centre will allow for an additional capacity of 125 students per hour for this popular workout space on campus.
Sports & Recreation underwent a robust consultative process with Western students and student leaders to understand what they wanted in this new workout space. The re-imagining of this fitness space also supports the S&R strategic vision of creating communities of belonging where all Western Mustangs thrive.
