Facilities

Settings that strengthen your skills

As a student majoring in a Department of Health, Recreation & Community Services (HRCS) field, you will spend much of your time in the nationally award-winning Wellness and Recreation Center (WRC) and Richard O. Jacobson Human Performance Center (HPC).

Both centers feature classrooms, offices and seminar space. The two-story, 33,000-square-foot HPC is a public/private partnership between UNI and the Cedar Valley medical community supporting the academic and public service programs of HRCS. 

Renowned Facilities

Space to learn and train 

Sport and Human Performance Center

  • More than 4,300 square feet 
  • Academic programs and training space
  • Clinical therapy, sports medicine, hydrotherapy
  • Partnership with Cedar Valley Medical Specialists P.C.-Department of Orthopedics, Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Northeast Iowa Physical Therapy  

Davis Center for Healthy Youth Development  

  • Iowa Center on Health Disparities
  • the R.J. McElroy Professor of Youth Leadership Studies
  • Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
  • National Program for Playground Safety

Athletic training outcomes research, environmental health and human anatomy labs

Human Performance Center

A fit environment to grow 

  • Dance and movement studios, racquetball courts, jogging track, fitness area, climbing wall
  • Leisure and instructional pools
  • Seminar/classroom space; computer instructional laboratory, student computer center
  • Wellness resources laboratory
  • Elinor A. Crawford and William R. Thrall Hall of Excellence 
Wellness/Recreation Center

Space to learn and train 

Sport and Human Performance Center

  • More than 4,300 square feet 
  • Academic programs and training space
  • Clinical therapy, sports medicine, hydrotherapy
  • Partnership with Cedar Valley Medical Specialists P.C.-Department of Orthopedics, Advanced Diagnostic Imaging and Northeast Iowa Physical Therapy  

Davis Center for Healthy Youth Development  

  • Iowa Center on Health Disparities
  • the R.J. McElroy Professor of Youth Leadership Studies
  • Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
  • National Program for Playground Safety

Athletic training outcomes research, environmental health and human anatomy labs

Human Performance Center

A fit environment to grow 

  • Dance and movement studios, racquetball courts, jogging track, fitness area, climbing wall
  • Leisure and instructional pools
  • Seminar/classroom space; computer instructional laboratory, student computer center
  • Wellness resources laboratory
  • Elinor A. Crawford and William R. Thrall Hall of Excellence 
Wellness/Recreation Center