8A – Solving The Problem

My selected opportunity was the lack of gym space at the University of Florida. I'm excited to have the opportunity to write about potential solutions to this problem.

1. Build more gym space

One of my friends works at Southwest Recreation Center, the main gym at this school. One of the things he told me was that out of all of the SEC schools, UF ranks last in the weight room space that it has available to its students, by a large margin. To me, this is unacceptable. The school should build another gym - by allowing the students to be split up between two primary locations instead of just one, the weight room would be a much more efficient and enjoyable experience.

2. Redesign the current interior layout of Southwest Recreation Center

As it currently stands, Southwest Recreation Center is a huge, impressive building, but for some reason, it only has a small area dedicated to weights in the very back of the building. To me, this is the least efficient allocation of space possible, as the weight room is the most commonly used area in the whole building. This would be like a dine in restaurant making their waiting room take up a majority the building, while only having a few tables where the guests can eat crammed in the back corner. If Southwest Recreation Center remodeled some of the buildings empty spaces and turned them into weight spaces, they could solve this problem without having to spend a ton of money to build a whole new facility.

Comments

  1. Michael LombardoSeptember 22, 2019 at 8:23 PM

    Hey Michael,
    I really like you opportunity as it is an issue that almost every college student here at the University of Florida has dealt with at one time or another. It was very surprising and quite sad to see that our school ranks dead last in total weight room space out of all SEC schools. The university should definitely do something about this as the weight room is always overcrowded.

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  2. Nick DiprimaSeptember 23, 2019 at 10:43 AM

    Hey Michael,

    I agree that it is unacceptable that UF ranks last in the SEC in terms of weightroom space available. Building another gym could be costly and take a long time, but I agree that it is an opportunity worth this logistics cost. If this could be done I think it would go a long way in terms of making student life at UF much better, and make it easier for the students to stay healthy.

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