The University of South Alabama Board of Trustees reviewed plans for a new 115,000-square-foot Student Recreation Center. The state-of-the-art center will include aerobic rooms, weight rooms, spinning rooms, basketball and racquetball courts, an indoor track, indoor and outdoor pools, saunas and a rock-climbing wall. Wellness evaluations and baby-sitting services will be offered. An adjacent outdoor recreation center will loan students camping equipment and canoes.

Construction is expected to begin on the project in early 2008, and USA officials anticipate the new center on the corner of Old Shell Road and Stadium Boulevard will be completed in fall 2009. It is expected to cost between $25 million to $30 million.