Homewood Campus Tour

The 63,000-square-foot Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center opened in January 2002. The three-story, $14.3 million facility is used by Homewood campus students, faculty, and staff. Adjacent to the Newton H. White Athletic Center, the state-of-the-art recreation center features 18,000-square-foot Robert H. Scott Gymnasium with a three-lane jogging track above its perimeter. Outfitted with two scoreboards, the gym can be transformed into three basketball courts, five volleyball courts or three badminton courts. The center also has four racquetball/squash courts, a 3,000-square-foot weight room, and a 30-foot climbing wall. A 2,500-square-foot fitness facility, a gift from the PepsiCo Foundation, contains treadmills, cross-trainers, stationary bikes, stair machines and rowing machines. The building also has a third-floor multipurpose room, named in honor of Robert M. and Anne B. Evans of Baltimore.

The center was designed by Sasaki Associates of Watertown, Mass. Lead architect Steve Schetler said that what makes the building special is its intermingling of spaces. "For instance, from the jogging track you can look into either the climbing wall area or the fitness room," he said. "You can enjoy adjacent spaces from almost everywhere you are."

The Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center, designed by
Sasaki Associates, abuts the Athletic Center.

For more information about the opening of the Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center, see the December 10, 2001 Gazette. For information about the Center's dedication, see the April 8, 2002 Gazette.

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