Recreation, Athletic & Wellness Centre (RAWC)

Opened in 2006, the Recreation, Athletics and Wellness Centre (RAWC) is a state-of-the-art athletic facilitity, providing multiple spaces for various forms of sport, fitness, and recreational activities. In addition to the RAWC spaces and amenities open to all student, staff, faculty, and community members, our facilities are also available for external and internal rentals.

RAWC Facilities

See below list of facilities and spaces at the RAWC for rental:

• Fitness Centre - our two-story fitness centre features cardio and strength training equipment, including a section that can be visually isolated for women's only fitness hours. The space is also equipped with a 3-lane, 200m running track.
   
• High Performance Centre - 8 platforms with Hammerstrength half-racks, benches, rubber bumper plates, plyo boxes, and other sport specific conditioning equipment.
   
• Fields/ Outdoor Courts - 2 mutli-sport grass fields, beach volleyball courts, and 2 outdoor tennis courts.
   
• Gymnasiums - 2 multi-sport gymnasiums: Gym C and Gym A/B, which features a double-gym that can be divided into 2 full size single gyms.
   
• Pool - a 25 metre, 8-lane Myrtha pool with movable bulkhead and depth adjustable floor.
   
• Dance Studio - a dance studio complete with mirrored walls, wooden floor, and dance barre.
   
• Fitness Studio - overlooking Gym AB, the fitness studio is located in the Fitness Centre, equipped with a mondo sport floor and spinning bikes.
   
• Multi-Purpose Rooms - subdivided into 2 rooms: Multipurpose Room A is 36 x 55 feet or 1980 square feet and Multipurpose Room B is 24 x 55 feet or 864 square feet. Room A is used primarily for Martial Arts and Room B houses our Table Tennis tables.
   
• Squash Courts - 1 North American sized squash court and 2 international courts

Changerooms

The RAWC has 3 changerooms availble to members: Male, Female, and a Privacy/ All Gender changeroom. All 3 changerooms have showers, washrooms, and both day & rental lockers. All 3 changerooms also have direct access to the pool deck and privacy cubicles for changing.

The Privacy/ All-Gender Changeroom is exclusively for people with privacy and/ or accessibility needs or concerns and families with small children. We ask all other members to use the gender appropriate changerooms. Please note that nudity is prohibited outside of the privacy cubicles, as both small children and males & females communally change here.

Rentals

Interested in renting our space?

Spaces within the RAWC are not available for rent at the current time.  Please check back here for updates and information on rentals to student groups, internal UTM departments, and external rentals in the future.