President, Senior V.P. to Dedicate New Fitness Trail

UC's Health and Wellness Fair on Wednesday, Oct. 2, will provide the perfect excuse to go out and exercise, and a new fitness trail linking East and West campuses offers the apparatus to do so. A double ceremony beginning at 11:30 a.m. will dedicate the new exercise course, according to Diane Lewis, director of business operations, UC Administrative and Business Services, and chair of the UC Quality Service Initiative Advisory Council.

A ribbon-cutting will take place at both ends of the trail. President Joseph A. Steger will do the honors at the first station on West Campus, outside Blegen Library on the south side of Teachers College, at the same time that Senior Vice President and Provost for Health Affairs Donald C. Harrison will slice the ribbon at the Medical Center at the last station, southeast of Wherry Hall. At noon, President Steger also is scheduled to make brief remarks to dedicate the trail. That ceremony will take place in the amphitheater on Sigma Sigma Commons as part of the Health and Wellness Fair activities.

Students, faculty, staff and members of the public are invited to attend the ribbon-cuttings and burn calories using the new equipment on their way to the noon dedication.

The trail also features UC ID card readers on each end to be used by students, faculty and staff. The devices can track individual use of the trail and will place names into a monthly drawing for special prizes. Marriott Kingsgate Conference Hotel is one of the award sponsors.

The nearly one-and-a-half mile trail cuts through campus from Teachers College, past McMicken, Old Chem, Brodie Plaza, Campus Green and across Martin Luther King to Procter, Vontz and Wherry.

More information on the Health and Wellness Fair
More information on the fitness trail
Bearcat Fitness Trail map