ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013
Campus Recreation
Unit Profile Statement and Introduction of Major Goals, Opportunities, and Initiatives
The Department of Campus Recreation provides students, faculty and staff with a broad range of
recreation and wellness opportunities through comprehensive programs and quality facilities. The
Department is comprised of several component areas: Informal Recreation, Intramural Sports, Fitness
and Wellness, Sport Clubs, Aquatics, Adaptive Recreation and Spirit Groups. The department also
manages the Maverick Activities Center (MAC), Campus Recreation Fields Complex, The Green at College
Park, Doug Russell Park and the P.E. Building.
Campus Recreation provides opportunities and experiences that contribute to the health, wellness,
development and education of the University community through involvement in recreational, leisure,
and social activities. Major goals and initiatives for the Department of Campus Recreation for the 20122013 academic year include: encouraging student participation in activities that promote healthy
lifestyles, being an integral part in the enhancement of students’ lives at UT Arlington, encouraging
student participation in programs and services that promote healthy lifestyles, providing opportunities
for student development, engagement and leadership experiences, hosting university and community
events, providing an academic success program for student employees, providing on-campus jobs and
scholarships to support students’ academic and professional goals, partnering with University colleagues
for special events and programs, celebrating University pride and tradition, and assessing student
learning.
Program/Service Areas and Subcomponents – Milestones and Major Accomplishments
The Campus Recreation facilities are high traffic areas on campus. The Maverick Activities Center (MAC)
and facility numbers continued to increase this year. There were over 19,200 individual users of the
MAC (fall and spring). The Campus Recreation Fields Complex continues to be used on a regular basis
for open recreation and Intramural Sports activity. The Aquatics program offered over 25 hours of
recreational swimming opportunities each week and recorded approximately 5,200 visits to the
swimming pool in the fall and spring semesters.
Adaptive Recreation programming continues to be an area of focus in the department. Programming in
this area includes participation from students with disabilities from other college and university
programs in the area, high school students with disabilities, able-bodied students who are studying
disability sport and recreation programming, and people with disabilities in the community. The
Adaptive Recreation staff hosted several one-day clinics and junior leagues in sports such as basketball,
tennis, track and field and more. These events were comprised of UT Arlington students, veterans,
community and regional participants.
The Sport Club program had another year of growth. Two new clubs were added, cricket and women’s
wheelchair basketball. Sport Clubs total participants increased 28% from 601 in 2011-2012 to 831 in
2012-2013. They hosted 34 Sport Club events on campus with thousands of visiting athletes and
spectators, an increase 32% from 2011-2012. Sport Clubs teams self-generated a total of $50,076, an
increase of 16% from 2011-2012 and participated in 1408 hours of community service, an increase of
45% from 2011-2012. Sport Clubs teams also traveled approximately 34,584 miles, competed in 111
events and served as guest services ambassadors for almost 30 athletic events this year. Student
development opportunities and awards were given through a conference style officer training (new this
year) with over 60 student leaders in attendance and an end of year banquet with over 100 in
attendance.
The Intramural Sports program worked hard to increase the participation in their programs this year.
There were over 1,700 students (6.25% increase from last year) involved with Intramural Sports each
semester and a record number of teams in the majority of sports. An emphasis was made on marketing
and communicating through the scheduling/registration website, Athleague, social media (Facebook and
Twitter) and Constant Contact emails. Student development continues to be a big component of the
Intramural Sports program. Students participated in the President’s Roundtable, budget presentations,
search committees, regional tournaments and conferences.
The Fitness and Wellness program continually tries to develop and keep up with the needs of the
student population and the trends in the industry. This year was the start of many new programs. The
LiveWell MavWell program was launched in effort to create a campus wide culture and environment
that promotes the value of student health and wellness by education, events, and access to campus
facilities, programs and information. “Fit Clips,” were video clips of specific exercises, exercise classes,
and trainer bios were created and posted to the department website and on Facebook to reach a
broader audience of users. Recreational activity classes (RAC) have been heavily pushed this year and
have successfully made. These classes consist of Bootcamp, Poker, Women’s Strength Training, CPR, and
more. Special events for the Fitness & Wellness area included World Heart Day-Cyclethon, Halloween
Casino Night, Nursing Orientations, Food for Thought, Zumbathon and more. Student development
opportunities were offered through AFAA workshops and certifications, TexFit choreography and skills
workshop and staff trainings.
The Spirit Groups were busy representing UT Arlington at athletic, university and community events. The
cheer squad, dance team, mascot and Wranglers (student spirit group) make up the 70 Spirit Group
members. They practiced heavily throughout the year (5 days a week) and supported UT Arlington at
over 60 events in 2012-13. Cheer placed third in the 2013 NCA Collegiate National Cheerleading
Championships and the Dance Team were in the Top Ten in the NDA Collegiate National Dance
Championships. The Spirit Groups awarded over $70,000 in scholarships this year.
Aquatics
 There was an addition of lunchtime swim hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays in the fall/spring.
 Aquatics participations increased 24%, 5198 in 2011-2012 to 6807 in 2012-2013.
 There were 78 students and staff that participated in the 2nd Annual Polar Bear Plunge.
Sport Clubs
 Cricket and Women’s Wheelchair Basketball were added as the newest Sport Clubs
 Sport Clubs teams self-generated a total of $50,076, an increase of 16% from 2011-2012.
 UT Arlington hosted 34 Sport Club events on campus with thousands of visiting athletes and
spectators, an increase 32% from 2011-2012.
 Sport Clubs teams traveled approximately 34,584 miles and competed in 111 events.
 Sport Clubs teams participated in 1408 hours of community service, an increase of 45% from 20112012.
 Sport Clubs total participants increased 28% from 601 in 2011-2013 to 831 in 2012-2013.
Fitness and Wellness
 There were 36+ classes offered per week and over 700 group exercises passes sold this year.
 Zumbathon took place this April with 151 participants, $934 raised for Safe Haven of Tarrant County,
in collaboration with the Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention program.
 The 5th Annual Cyclethon, World Heart Day, occurred in September, with 335 participants.
Approximately $1600 was raised for the American Heart Association.
 Four nursing orientations were provided through the wellness program serving 320+ students.
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Halloween Casino Night drew in the largest participation ever at 1217 including 58 costume contest
participants.
Campus Recreation worked with Apartment and Residence Life to launch a new, cutting edge
wellness experience for students. The program will help create a culture of wellness on campus by
engaging students in their own personal wellness.
Intramural Sports
 Intramural Sports collaborated with UTA Radio to host the first ever basketball championship night.
The event was emceed by UTA Radio and broadcasted on UTARadio.com.
 The program experience record team numbers. The green indicated record numbers.
Fall
Flag Football
Volleyball
Softball
3on3 Basketball
Indoor Soccer
Ultimate Frisbee
2012
72
64
40
24
72
6
272
+/- %
-1%
33%
3%
-29%
13%
-25%
Spring
Dodgeball
Basketball
4on4 Flag Football
Outdoor Soccer
Softball
Sand Volleyball
2013
47
72
74
50
52
79
374
+/- %
24%
7%
42%
6%
49%
36%
Spirit Groups
 Cheer team placed 3rd in the national competition.
 Dance team placed in top 10 in both hip-hop and jazz divisions in the national competition.
 Over $70,000 was given out in scholarships to the cheer, dance and mascot students.
 Junior Mavs squad was established.
Assessment Highlights
Program area reviews took place this year for the Intramural Sports and Wellness program. Each
program did several surveys, focus groups, and benchmarking against peer institutions to evaluate their
programs.
 Intramural Findings: In summary, the internal review of the Intramural Sports program in spring
2013 has identified recommendations for the program moving forward. Scheduling, competition
forfeits, and development of officials are the most important for growth and development. In
addition, they will be looking closely at an increased prize distribution and fee structure.
 Wellness Findings: The internal review of the wellness program had identified several
recommendations: To discuss, plan and implement new and improved marketing strategies for
each program/service. Implement a brief assessment survey for each program/service
individually to gather more specific and useful info for each area on an ongoing basis.
Restructure the personal training program rates to include package/bundled sessions. Continue
to develop and implement a CEU program for wellness staff. Research and purchase fitness
testing software to get on board with this trend in our field. Re-evaluate the nutrition
consultation program. Possibly conduct a survey specific to the usefulness and demand for this
program on our campus. Restructure fees to be more in line with other universities or possibly
move to group or class structure instead of individual sessions. Evaluate the need and possibly
restructure the current massage therapy rates to be more in line with current trends.
Campus Recreation focused on the following student learning outcomes this year:
 SLO 1: Student employees will be able to set (SMART) goals. The results indicate that Campus
Recreation student employees learned how to set specific, measureable, achievable, relevant
and time specific goals.
 SLO 2: Sport Club members who fulfill community service activities will be able to articulate the
value of civic engagement. The results indicate that the student sport club members were
able to articulate the value of civic engagement after partaking in a community service event
with their Sport Club.
 SLO 3: Campus Recreation student employees will exhibit transferable skills that can assist in
their future employment. The results indicate that 75% of the student employees are
exhibiting transferable skills (customer service, team work, initiative, communication).
Academic Collaborations
Campus Recreation collaborates with the College of Nursing, Kinesiology, Psychology Department, Art
Department and Architecture Department.
 Campus Recreation collaborates with the College of Nursing to offer wellness orientations
for the nursing students twice a semester.
 Kinesiology collaborates and the Art Department in providing internships to several students
each year.
 Campus Recreation collaborates with the Psychology Department on studies almost every
year. The most recent was a machine usage study where they were trying to figure out the
usage patterns of the strength training equipment.
 Campus Recreation worked with the Architecture Department to develop proposals for the
aquatic facilities and Physical Education Building reconstruction.
Awards and Accolades
 Carly Johnston was a finalist for UT Arlington student employee of the year
 Women’s Volleyball and Wrestling competed in their sports Collegiate National
Championships, in addition to various league and regional accomplishments
 Martial Arts Club was awarded the Sport Club of the Year and nomination for Student
Organization of the Year
 Women’s Ultimate was awarded the Community Service Sport Club of the Year
 Women’s Soccer was awarded the Fundraising Sport Club of the Year
 Tennis Club was awarded the Academic Sport Club of the Year
 Liz Bartleson, Women’s Volleyball President, awarded Sport Club Officer of the Year
 Braydon Gold, Men’s Soccer Sport Club Coach of the Year
 Kyndall Griffin, intramural supervisor, served on President’s Roundtable
 John Nguyen, intramural supervisor, served on Student Services Fee Allocation committee.
John also won a UTA Career Services Student Employee of the Year award and was named
the Campus Recreation Student Employee of the year
 Michael Nkollo, intramural supervisor, refereed at the NIRSA Region IV basketball
tournament at University of Houston and was selected as one of three referees to represent
the region at the NIRSA National tournament hosted by North Carolina State University.
Mike is the first student at UTA to ever receive this honor
 Stephanie McAlpine – Chair Select NIRSA National Campus Championship Series Committee
2012-2013; Vice-Chair NIRSA National Campus Championship Series Committee 2013-2014;
Presentation – “The Biggest Show in the Nation”, Region IV NIRSA Conference, October
2012; Presentation – “Great Minds Think Differently”, Region IV NIRSA Conference, October
2012
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Chris Muller – NIRSA Foundation Board of Directors 2012 – 2015; NIRSA Nominations and
Appointments Committee 2012-13; Presentation “Are You Playing Checkers or Chess?”
Region IV NIRSA Conference, October 2012
Blair Schuyler – Chair, Career Opportunities Center Committee Chair 2013-2014: NIRSA
Annual Conference Programming Committee 2013-2014
Durl Rather – Outstanding Maverick Award – 2012
Drew Barfield – NIRSA Regional Basketball Officials Committee – Spring 2013; SubCommittee Chair NIRSA National Campus Championship Series Basketball Work Team
Tom Woodman – NIRSA William Wasson Award Committee 2012-2013
Allyson Fulton – Chair, NIRSA Marketing Community of Practice 2013-2014
Doug Garner - Coach of Army Warrior Games Team - Gold Medal in Wheelchair Basketball
and 8 Medals in seated track and field; Arlington Sam Provence Award; Recognized in Dallas
Business Professionals Magazine as Executive on the Move; Featured Speaker for Louisiana
Special Olympics State Awards Banquet; Clinic Presentation for Shreveport GUMBO Adapted
Sports Clinic; Selected 1st Assistant Coach for USA National Junior Team; Selected as High
Performance Liaison and National Team Selection Committee for USA Men's and Women's
2013 National Teams; Presented sessions at four Army Adapted Sports Camps and two Army
Adapted Sport Musters; NIRSA Adapted Recreation Committee