UNI Wellness and Recreation Center

01/30/2026

Anyone who played organized sports growing up knows: competitions cannot happen without officials. Yet, in recent years, it isn’t always easy to fill referee positions. Seeing this need, one group of UNI students is determined to ensure that games go on and are properly staffed by trained, dedicat...

01/22/2026

The WRC will open at 8 AM tomorrow morning. There will be no morning lap swim. There will be open lap swim over the lunch hour.

UNI will delay the start of in-person classes until 10 a.m. on Friday, January 23.

Due to extreme winter weather conditions, the University of Northern Iowa campus will delay the start of in-person classes until 10 a.m. on Friday, January 23. Campus will open for normal business hours at 8 a.m.

Instructors for in-person classes may move classes to an online format with prior notification. Online/virtual classes will proceed as scheduled.

At this time, UNI Athletics and Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts events will proceed as scheduled unless those entities announce any changes at a later time.

Additional resources: https://uni.edu/resources/weather

01/19/2026

DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE A ROWING AND BOXING STUDIO!!!

Located by the downstairs courts. Group Fitness classes are held there, but they are also open for individual workouts! Check them out!

01/12/2026

NOW HIRING INTRAMURAL OFFICIALS!

If interested go to the link in our bio to fill out the application!

Officials needed for volleyball, basketball, flag football, and Soccer!

11/30/2025

The WRC is closed today due to the weather. We will open at 5pm Monday. Enjoy the snow.

11/04/2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQz1MCJP_AE

Its always a great day when President Nook, TC and TK come to the Rec. Way to go Exercise Science Club

Exercise is Medicine On Campus (EIMOC) Mascot Challenge, 2025School: University of Northern IowaVote for this video by "liking" it/hitting the thumbs up icon...

10/10/2025

You just never know who you will run into at the WRC. It’s week 7 and 52% of UNI students have used the WRC 35,000 times. Way to go Panthers!

07/25/2025

WRC Panther Camp is finishing up Week 6. Rodeo Round Up week was great and included a day trip to the Hansen’s Dairy Farm. The kids had a blast milking cows, churning butter, eating ice cream and…. the biggest hit of the day…. petting the Kangaroos.

07/18/2025

WRC Panther Camp is finishing up Week 5 (Sports Week). It was so much fun to work out with the UNI Football players and UNI Cheerleaders. Thanks to both teams.

07/08/2025

It's time to congratulate Dr. Andy Martin for his promotion to Assistant Director. We thank him for his commitment to his craft and for his support of UNI students. Congrats Andy!

03/04/2025

"This is a UNI Alert. Due to a forecasted winter weather event the University of Northern Iowa campus will move entirely to online operations on Wednesday, March 5. During this period of weather-related online operations, in-person classes will NOT meet."

The WRC will be closed and all programming is cancelled including: Intramurals, personal training, group fitness, sport club practices, outdoor recreation and aquatics.

We are planning for normal operations on Thursday, March 6 at 6:00am.

03/04/2025

The WRC will close at 10pm on March 4 and reopen at 6am on March 6.