Facilities and Programming

The Aquatic Center is a 50-meter by 25-yard indoor swimming pool, which features two 3-meter and two 1-meter diving boards. Open to students, faculty, staff and community members, the Aquatic Center provides activities including rec and lap swim, swim meets, learn-to-swim lessons and birthday parties. It is also home to the OHIO swimming and diving teams and a variety of club sport teams.

Bird Ice Arena is a 1,200 spectator capacity indoor ice facility that serves as home ice for OHIO’s Ice Hockey Team, the four-time American Collegiate Hockey Association national champions. The venue offers skate rentals, skate sharpening, and a mezzanine. It supports a wide array of activities including recreational skating, recreation and sport science classes, recreational hockey leagues, figure skating and special events.

The Challenge Course is made up of several different features including a high ropes course suspended 40 feet in the air, 300-foot zipline, and a low ropes course. The Challenge Course supports the Challenge Program in bringing together individuals to focus on team development goals such as problem-solving, trust, a positive work environment, collaboration and effective communication.

The Ping Center is a 168,000 square foot recreation facility and serves as the primary recreation center on campus. The facility features a 36-foot high double-sided climbing wall, five basketball/volleyball courts, two multi-purpose gymnasiums, an elevated 4-lane indoor running track, four racquetball courts, two fitness studios, and a functional fitness and weight room.

The Golf and Tennis Center provides a scenic 9-hole, par 35 golf course along the Hocking River, four indoor, heated tennis courts, six outdoor tennis courts, one outdoor and one indoor Pickleball court, and a clubhouse. Activities hosted by this facility include general recreation, academic classes, private lessons, learn-to play golf classes, learn-to play tennis classes and tournaments. Additionally, a 300-yard illuminated driving range is located just off campus on West State Street.

Completed in 2014, Walter Fieldhouse is a 100-yard AstroTurf football field, a 4-lane, 316-meter practice track, long jump and pole vault pits, golf and hitting cages, two filming platforms and a netting system that can accommodate multiple and simultaneous events. Events at Walter Fieldhouse include academic classes, OHIO Athletics practices, Marching 110 practices, Army and Air Force ROTC training, Intramural and Club Sports and general open recreation.