Campus Services and Facilities

Student Services and Programs

Recreation

RIMAC
Mail Code 0529
(858) 534-4037
http://recreation.ucsd.edu

Campus Recreation provides UC San Diego students with quality recreation programs. They are designed to meet leisure-time needs and interests through on-campus programs offering clubs, intramural sports, recreation classes, outings, and a myriad of activities and special event programming. Our goal is to provide opportunities promoting a lifetime of health-conscious options.

Facilities

  • RIMAC with arena, gymnasium, weight room, racquetball and squash courts, and equipment room.
  • Main and Recreation Gymnasia
  • Main Gym Weight Room
  • Indoor 25-Yard Natatorium Pool and Spa
  • Outdoor 50-Meter Canyonview Pools and Spa
  • Outback Indoor Climbing Center
  • UCSD Challenge Course
  • Tennis Courts
  • Playing Fields
  • Canyonview Weight Room
  • Golf Driving Range
  • Mission Bay Aquatics Center
  • Spanos Training Facility with weight training equipment, martial arts studio, and trainers’ facility
  • Running and Jogging Track
  • Par Courses
  • Sand Volleyball Courts
  • Outback Adventures equipment rentals
  • Outback Adventures Gear Shop, Price Center

Intramural Sports

The Intramural Sports Program at UCSD is a balanced blend of team and individual sports activities that are designed to meet the diverse needs of the campus community. Sports offered include flag football, floor hockey, tennis, basketball, softball, soccer, bowling, volleyball, tube waterpolo, badminton, and dodgeball.

Recreation Clubs

Recreation Clubs are special-interest activity clubs open to the entire campus community. The clubs are designed to bring together people with common interests. Students may join or begin new recreation clubs and participate in the workouts, meetings, social gatherings, and special events that are part of the RecClub structure.

Sport Clubs

Sport Clubs are those teams that compete on an intercollegiate basis but without many of the restrictions of the formal Intercollegiate Athletic Teams. The clubs offer students the opportunity to become involved in somewhat less traditional competitive sports, while still enjoying the travel to and competition against other institutions. Teams include badminton, dance sport, dance team, triathlon, equestrian, waterski, cycling, lacrosse, sailing, surfing, rugby, alpine ski/snowboard racing, ice hockey, roller hockey, soccer, table tennis, volleyball, water polo, and ultimate disc.

Recreation Classes

Recreation classes provide students and the university community an opportunity for noncredit, nongraded instruction in a range of physical and leisure activities. The program includes professional instruction in everything from games (billiards to poker); aquatics (swimming, surfing, scuba diving); dance (ballet, ballroom, hip hop to tango); fitness (indoor cycling, cardio and conditioning, Pilates, weight training); martial arts (aikido, karate to tai chi); mind, body, spirit (meditation to yoga); sports (archery, fencing, gymnastics to tennis) and more.

Outback Adventures

Outback Adventures (outdoor recreation program) is a passport to adventure and the great outdoors. The program offers fun, full-service trips (transportation, meals, instruction, equipment) in backpacking, rock climbing, canoeing, kayaking, surfing, and other outdoor pursuits. The Outback Adventures director will also arrange customized trips. In addition, the program offers instructional workshops, a resource library of maps and park information, and a camping and outdoor equipment rental service that includes downhill skiing and snowboard equipment, camping equipment, and game equipment. Outback also runs the indoor climbing center, with facilities for beginning to advanced climbers, rentals, and instruction as well as the UCSD Challenge Course, offering leadership and team-building workshops. The Outback Adventures Gear shop, at the Price Center, offers outdoor gear (from backpacks to snowboards and surfboards) for rent and for sale.

Aquatics

UCSD Campus Recreation Aquatics encompasses a wide range of aquatic activities. Student users can participate in competitive and training programs in swimming and water polo. Masters Programs in swimming, running, and triathlon provide an intensive competitive and training experience. Special events scheduled throughout the year range from student social activities to international team competitions. Additionally, an extensive recreational lap swim program is maintained to accommodate daily users from the campus and community.

Informal Recreation

Informal recreation provides individuals and groups of students the opportunity to make use of any and all of the physical activity facilities at UCSD. From jogging on the par course to shooting hoops in the gym, or playing racquetball in RIMAC, “open rec” time allows students to develop their own leisure activities.

Mission Bay Aquatic Center

Located on Santa Clara Point in Mission Bay, this facility and its programs provide students with an exclusive opportunity to participate in all aspects of aquatic recreation. From highly structured classes to equipment rentals, MBAC is a “first class” operation. (858) 488-1036.

Personal Wellness

Our weight room and Personal Wellness programs offer free student small-group personal-wellness programs and personalized comprehensive fitness programs to sixty students each quarter. Other small-group programs, including Personal Athlete and Weight Loss Solutions, are also offered, as well as nutrition counseling, personal fitness assessments, personal training, and massage therapy.

Intercollegiate Athletics at UCSD

www.UCSDtritons.com

The UC San Diego Athletic Department sponsors a broad base of men’s and women’s intercollegiate sports, which promote the pursuit of excellence, strength of character, teamwork, ethical conduct, and diversity, as well as other lessons competitive sport teaches. UCSD has been an NCAA Division II member since 2000, and most teams now compete in the California Collegiate Athletic Association, widely considered to be the top Division II athletic conference in the country. With twenty-three highly competitive teams to choose from, students with varying interests in participating in intercollegiate athletics have the opportunity to submerge themselves in A Proud Tradition of Academic and Athletic Excellence!

UCSD’s teams have captured twenty-nine National Championships, while thirty-seven others have finished National Runners-up. Forty-four others have achieved national third place honors. Women’s soccer and women’s volleyball lead the way with seven national championships apiece, followed by women’s water polo with five, women’s tennis with four, men’s soccer with three, and men’s golf with one. In addition to succeeding on a national level, UCSD teams have captured forty-three conference championships and sixteen regional championships since moving to the NCAA Division II level, adding to the thirty-two conference championships and fifty-one regional championships obtained as a Division III competitor. Individually, 130 Triton student-athletes have won National Championships, while a remarkable 990 student-athletes have been named to All-America teams.

UCSD student-athletes have excelled academically as well, earning twenty-three prestigious NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarships and 140 Academic All-America selections. Consistently, more than 55 percent of the student-athletes earn a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher, placing them on the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll.

In 2008–09, UCSD posted a seventh place finish out of more than 300 schools in the Learfield Sports Director’s Cup, an award representing the best overall athletic department in the country. Since moving to Division II, UCSD has placed in the top seven in the Director’s Cup standings on eight different occasions and finished second twice. UCSD finished first in the standings as a Division III member in 1997–98. At the conference level, UCSD has captured the California Collegiate Athletic Association Commissioner’s Cup title—an award symbolizing the best overall athletic program in the CCAA—every year since its inaugural season in 2005–06.

UC San Diego currently offers basketball, crew, cross-country, fencing, soccer, swimming and diving, tennis, track and field, volleyball, and water polo for both men and women, as well as men’s baseball, men’s golf, and women’s softball. In addition to becoming a student-athlete, UCSD students have the opportunity to get involved through a variety of athletic support groups, internships, and volunteer work. Triton Spirit Groups include the UCSD Cheer Team; the school mascot, King Triton; the UCSD Dance Team; Triton Tide; and the UCSD Pep Band. Each of these student organizations has grown steadily in recent years and helps create the spirited environment at Triton athletic events. Students interested in a firsthand experience in the operations of an athletics program should check into opportunities to work in game management, which provide staffing for all home athletic events, or inquire about internships within the Athletics Department.

In addition to the student groups, Triton Athletic Associates, a booster group of parents, alumni, and friends, supports the UC San Diego Athletic Department in its endeavor to provide an optimal student-athlete experience by providing contributions as an investment in The Proud Tradition of Athletic and Academic Excellence developed over nearly three decades of athletic success.