Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer
NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS - DURHAM / GOUNIS.COM

Return to Recreation

April 7, 2021

Hello!  Welcome back to campus for Cohort D for the spring semester at NCSSM and to our Physical Activity and Wellness (PAW) Programs.  We are happy to have you back and will have similar opportunities in the spring that we did in the fall semester.  Please be sure to check out our virtual fitness opportunities as we plan a safe return to campus and recreation. We also plan to have some low density intramural programs to allow us to keep active. We will continue to have limited open access to our physical activity spaces as we will have time slots to use equipment and also be open for PAW classes.  

Below are some of the new rules and steps as we come back to campus:

PEC Entering Guidelines:

  • Limited Capacity - reserve a 45 minute time slot via Sign Up Genius (Students and Employees).

  • Open Hours By Appointment Beginning April 12: 3-8pm Monday-Friday and 2-5pm Saturday/Sunday. Class Use Only from 10am-3pm

  • Everyone must on time, be COVID symptom free, check in at the front entrance, complete a temperature check, check in with a reserved time slot and sanitize hands.

  • Entrance of the PEC confirms compliance of facility rules and regulations.

PEC Rules:

  • A face covering is required in the entire PEC and while exercising.

  • One way traffic patterns while maintaining social distancing.

  • Equipment must wiped down before and after use.

Status of Facilities Availability (April 12, 2021):

  • AVAILABLE: NCSSM Virtual Fitness Opportunities

  • REDUCED CAPACITY (4 persons): Weight Room

  • REDUCED CAPACITY (5 persons): Cardio Room - Treadmills

  • REDUCED CAPACITY (7 persons): Dance Studio - Ellipticals and Recumbent Bikes

  • REDUCED CAPACITY: Student/Employee Locker Rooms

  • UNAVAILABLE: Courts for open recreation basketball, badminton and volleyball

  • UNAVAILABLE: Equipment Checkout (Mats, foam rollers, balls, etc.)

  • UNAVAILABLE: Racquetball Courts

  • UNAVAILABLE: Water Fountains (Bottle Fillers remain on)

  • LIMITED: Training Room (triage done by virtual appointment only)

  • Relocated Equipment to Increase Social Distancing Once Reopened:

    • Recumbent bikes and elliptical machines moved to Dance Studio

    • Treadmills spaced out in existing cardio room

Intramurals
Doubles Badminton and 3v3 Volleyball - Sign Up Here by 11:59pm Thursday April 15.

Varsity Athletics
NCSSM suspended varsity athletics for the rest of the 2020-21 academic year. NCSSM will pursue a safe return to varsity athletics in the fall of 2021.

Training Room Rules
 - No Walk Ins
- For virtual appointment, email both michell@ncssm.edu and breanna.mclane@ncssm.edu
- If it is decided you need to come in you will be given an appointment
- Training Room Staff will meet you at the door
- Waiting area queue set up in the hallway
- Maximum of two students in training room at a time
- Masks must be worn in PEC
- Rehabs will be scheduled virtual and in training room if needed

Please contact me if you have any questions.  Take care and GoUNIs!!!

Greg Jarvis, CMAA, CIC

Athletic Director/Director of Physical Activity and Wellness