On your marks, get set… Construction completed on new sports centre
With a symbolic basketball pass, the construction company handed over the new sports centre to the university on 1 December. The building is ready to be fitted out for use. From 9 February, all are welcome: to do sports or just explore.
Both the construction company BINX and the Manager of the Sports Centre, Annette van Lookeren Campagne, are pleased with the results. ‘I can’t wait for people to see the new sports centre with their own eyes,’ said Van Lookeren Campagne. ‘With an impressive 9,000 square metres, we’ll have so much to offer – a wide range of sports in a sustainable, gas-free building with great acoustics and plenty of daylight.’
New sports and a fantastic view
The new sports centre will boast a fitness suite of around 1,000 square metres, almost three times the size of the current gym. It will also offer two large sports halls with tiered seating, three multifunctional studios for dance or boxing, and a spacious Body & Mind space with a panoramic view of the sports fields. The options here will include Aerial Yoga – yoga in a suspended hammock. The new building will also offer facilities for new sports such as Callisthenics, Aerial Acrobatics, Aerial Hoop and Bungee Super Fly, as well as a boxing ring and virtual classes.
All facilities in one place
This new building alongside the sports fields will bring together all our indoor and outdoor sports facilities. Following the completion of the sports fields in the second half of next year, the sports café with its terrace will offer ringside seats for the games outside. In its position right next to the campus square, this promises to be a sporting hot spot.
Work together on well-being
Alongside sports, the new building will provide space for activities such as clinics and team days out in its flexible sport-themed rooms and facilities. Exams will be held in the two large sports halls.
Interested in holding your event at this location? Event coordinator for the University Sports Centre, Sebastiaan Schoenmaker, can help create a programme that will boost your team’s well-being.