Campus Recreation’s Outdoor Adventures program offers a wide variety of opportunities for participants to engage in exciting and educational outdoor activities. Designed to be enjoyable, challenging, and meaningful, our trips encourage personal growth, build outdoor skills, and foster a deeper appreciation for the environment.
Intramural sports are structured individual, dual, and team-based competitive activities available to Rec Members with a valid UIS i-card. Campus Recreation uses IMLeagues, a third-party interactive website, to manage the Intramural Sports program.
All participants can register using their UIS NetID and password. If someone prefers not to use IMLeagues, they may contact the Assistant Director for Competitive Sports, Jay Swenson, for assistance at jswen2@uis.edu.
A program provided to UIS Students assessed the General Fee and Faculty and Staff who have a valid Rec Membership to promote health and wellness on campus.&
UIS launched its wellness initiative fall 2016 for all current UIS students, faculty, and staff. UIS Wellness is a campus wide effort to educate and promote wellness in all aspects of life. Campus Recreation and many other departments have come up with nine dimensions; occupational, physical, financial, emotional, spiritual, environmental, nutritional, social, and intellectual.
Campus Recreation provides recreation and wellness opportunities to students and the university community.
Current full-time UIS students are automatically granted membership provided they have been assessed the General Fee.
A Rec Member refers to all UIS students being assessed the Recreation Center Fee portion of the General Fee for the current term, as well as anyone who has purchased a membership for the current term.
The state-of-the-art Recreation and Athletic Center (TRAC) opened in Fall 2007. The Department of Campus Recreation manages this 72,000 gross-square-foot facility and houses the offices of UIS Intercollegiate Athletics. TRAC boasts a 23,000-square-foot arena available for multiple indoor sports, two fitness areas, a Multi-Purpose Room, a racquetball/squash court, and a golf simulator. TRAC also serves as the home of UIS Men’s & Women’s Basketball and UIS Women’s Volleyball.
The low team challenge course consists of events that may occur on the ground as well as utilizing the initiatives which consists of poles, wires, platforms and ropes a few inches to a couple feet off the ground. These exciting challenges help groups explore leadership and organizational behavior while moving towards their goals which may consist of: teamwork, communication, problem solving, cooperation, trust and respect.
