No Room At The Gym

With UREC ‘Always Full,’ JMU Prepares A $57 Million Expansion

Posted: September 8, 2012

Students crowd into the exercise rooms at the James Madison University UREC on Friday. A planned expansion would double the facility’s capacity. (Photos by Michael Reilly / DN-R)
James Madison University students jam onto the turf field behind UREC on Friday for Student Organization Night. The “lower turf” has been earmarked as the expansion site for the UREC facility.
Students pump iron on Friday in the jam-packed weight room at James Madison University’s UREC facility.
Eric Nickels, James Madison University’s director of university recreation, reacted to crowding at UREC by concluding that “we needed to do something else.”

HARRISONBURG — Freshman roommates Amanda Bresnahan and Alli Carlucci, both 18, know that as soon as registration opens for a class they want to take at James Madison University’s recreation...



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