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Evelyn Spangler, wellness coordinator at SRWC, joins the event as the instructor for students to learn aerial yoga. The player started with the basic level of sitting in the silk before moving to an upside-down position.
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The purpose of Rec Madness is to provide an opportunity for students to engage in activities at the SRWC for bonding and making friends in the Washburn community. Besides that, the activities were to support students and interact with others after spring break to break the ice and stay involved and active at Washburn.
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Washburn Student Recreation hosts Rec Madness in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center March 20. The event lasted from 4 – 6 p.m. and welcomed students with free T-shirts, games, activities and giveaways.
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Besides physical sports, attendants can also play video games and remote-control cars. The SRWC was still open for guests to workout in the weightlifting space during the Rec Madness event.
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The audience can get snacks, drinks and play games such as Jenga and mini golf in the Group Exercise room. The audience rebuilt their wood tower for the next player after it fell.
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There is limited time for scoring high basketball scores to win the game in the REC; the audience could play in a competition with their friends. One of the most challenging activities of REC Madness was requiring people to play a combination of baseball, soccer and basket at the limited time to pass the game.
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Anthony Depner, senior statistics major, talks to the SRWC staff about the event flow. The SRWC started preparing for this event at the end of the fall 2023 semester and over winter break.
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This was the first year the SRWC hosted Rec Madness, which is a nighttime event. Rock climbing in the SRWC was open to the audience on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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After registration, the audience can also get a chance to get other gifts, such as dry shampoo and another free T-shirt with the Ichabod Wheel of Fortune. Another way that the audience could get an extra gift was by joining the exercise challenge of the SRWC during the event.
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SRWC staff introduces the audience to the hover ball archery target. The goal of this game was to use a bow and arrow to hit four target balls, which were floating in the air.
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James Thayer (left), associate director of fitness and health promotion at SRWC, wants to offer a space where patrons can try new activities, be physically active, win prizes and ultimately have fun and enjoyable experiences. The audience got a free T-shirt when registered before joining any activities of the Rec Madness.
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Spangler enjoys all the different types of activities that are not normally offered at the SRWC, like painting, remote control racetrack and aerial yoga. Spangler learned how to teach regular yoga first about 10 years ago when she went to a yoga festival and had her first yoga class.
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Evelyn Spangler, wellness coordinator at SRWC, joins the event as the instructor for students to learn aerial yoga. The player started with the basic level of sitting in the silk before moving to an upside-down position.
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The purpose of Rec Madness is to provide an opportunity for students to engage in activities at the SRWC for bonding and making friends in the Washburn community. Besides that, the activities were to support students and interact with others after spring break to break the ice and stay involved and active at Washburn.
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Washburn celebrates REC Madness March 20, at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The event lasted from 4 – 6 p.m. and saw over 200 attendees.
The event covered sports and games like archery, table tennis, control car race, mini basketballs, mini golf and much more. Lakin Wiseman, freshman occupational therapy major, works at the SRWC and was in charge of the aerobic station at the event. She shares her experience about the event.
“I think it is fun to meet new people and try all the events,” Wiseman said. “It is a great way to get your mind off studying.”
After registration, the audience can also get a chance to get other gifts, such as dry shampoo and another free T-shirt, with the Ichabod Wheel of Fortune. Another way that the audience could get an extra gift was by joining the exercise challenge of the SRWC during the event.
Some of the activities at the event had students fill a liability form. The form was used for the rock wall, yoga and archery. Whitney Slater, director of the SRWC, explained how the process works.
“There is always a risk when you are participating in physical activities,” Slater said. “Since we do have a few more that are kind of outside your traditional exercising, we just wanted to make sure that we have people aware that they are volunteering in these activities.”
Rec Madness is a new concept that the recreational center is trying this year. The SRWC used to do a spring event called Late Night at the Rec, which usually happened at 9 p.m. This year, there are a few changes to the spring event.
“We wanted to try something in the spring, maybe with a little bit nicer weather,” Slater said. “We came up with this Rec Madness event to just try something a bit different for students to come back to the Rec and maybe have some fun and win some prizes and T-shirts and stuff.”
In the official poster for the event for the Rec Madness, it mentioned ax throwing as a part of the activities. It was later canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.
“We ended up having some issues with the insurance, with their company, with what our campus wanted to see,” Slater said. “Our timeline just could not make it work to get everything back in order to bring them to campus, but we are hopeful to do it down the road at another event.”
Usually with late night events, there used to be about 200 students in the two hour event. Slater is hopeful of keeping this consistent record.
“We are hopeful to be at least around 100 or 150 [students],” Slater said. “We will reevaluate after this event and see if we wanna maybe go back to the old model of hosting a little bit later in the evening.”
There was pot painting on the second level of the SRWC. Students were provided art materials and mud pots to paint any designs. Avigya Ghimire, freshman psychology major, expressed her experience in the event.
“I had a lot of fun at archery,” Ghimire said. “I did not know I would be able to spend time painting on pots, but here we are.”
Snacks were provided in the gym room where students could go to grab a bite. Upcoming spring events are a great way of socializing among students.
Edited by Jeremy Ford and Aja Carter