The Colvin Center is a student recreation center at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.[1] It offers Шаблон:Convert of recreational space. The Colvin Center serves an average of 4,000 students a day. Шаблон:Citation needed Admission to the Colvin Center is free to Oklahoma State students, although every OSU student pays a fee along with their tuition towards maintenance of the center.
History
The Colvin Center was originally completed on March 1, 1969, at a cost of almost $3 million.[2] In 1999, student government representatives had become concerned that the aging Colvin Center was becoming increasingly outdated and incapable of meeting the needs of a much larger student body. This movement would later give way to a massive two-year, $23 million renovation and expansion project that was completed in July 2004. The project gave the Colvin Center approximately Шаблон:Convert of completely new or renovated area, including five new gyms (bringing the total number to eleven) and a golf center with three driving-range practice nets, a practice putting green and two golf simulators. Other amenities include an indoor pool and outdoor pool, dance studios, Шаблон:Convert climbing wall, indoor jogging tracks, racquetball courts, and cardio and fitness equipment. The weight and fitness-training areas alone have more than tripled in size from 9,000 to more than Шаблон:Convert with $600,000 of new equipment.Шаблон:Citation needed