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It’s time to say goodbye to Rec Sports; we have officially become University Recreation & Wellbeing! (You can call us Rec Well for short.) You may be wondering why. Well, we took “sports” out of our name for a few reasons: We are more than just sports, and we want everyone to feel like they’re …
Jerod Keene is an athletic trainer who works with Sport Clubs and UHS. As an athletic trainer, I often come across patients with lower-body injuries who would like to continue endurance training while attempting to avoid exacerbating their injury. Indeed, this can be a difficult task considering that most methods of endurance exercise involve using …
Fitness trends come and go, but one trend that has been growing in popularity is small group training. While personal training has one trainer working with one client and partner training has one trainer working with two clients, small group training allows even more people to work with one trainer. Small group training consists of …
Jerod Keene, MS, LAT has been an athletic trainer for six years and is in his fourth year working with Sport Clubs at UW–Madison. He completed his undergraduate degree in Athletic Training from UW–Madison in 2010 and his masters at Ohio University in 2013. He enjoys the wide variety of athletes he gets to work …
Erin Clark, MS, LAT became coordinator of athletic training in August 2018. Prior to Rec Sports, she was employed as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with Intercollegiate Athletics for 10 years. She completed her Masters of Science at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse while working as a graduate assistant athletic trainer …
Hi! I’m Gabrielle and I am a professional staff member for the Division of Recreational Sports. I work as a Coordinator of Operations, which means that I oversee the Natatorium and some of the students who work inside the facility (you know who you are). I love the Badgers, my dog Stella, and Kopp’s Grasshopper …
If you’ve been to any of our Group Fitness classes, you know just how empowering, energetic, and all-around awesome our instructors are. We are so lucky to have them, and we need more superstar instructors just like them. Whether you’re a Group Fitness veteran or a first-timer, there’s a good chance you have what it …
Welcome to campus, new #ActiveBadgers! We hope your semester is off to a strong start. Now that you’ve found your lecture halls, bought your textbooks, and read your syllabi, it’s time to learn about another important part of college life: being physically active. Staying active on campus is not only essential to your physical health …
Not everyone knows everything we have available at the Natatorium, and we don’t blame you. We offer a lot of equipment, services, programs and more! Lucky for you, we’ve put together all the facts you need to PLAY HARD. GET FIT. LIVE WELL. at the Nat. We have the inside scoop on the best …
The gym can represent different things for different people. For some, it’s a great place to blow off steam and get away from daily stressors. For others, it may be more of a social place, to work out with a friend or maybe meet new people. But for most, the gym is a place to …