Pre-Conference Tours
Registration for each is $65
Tuesday, November 19
9:00am - 4:00pm
Tour A: Tulane & Ochsner Fitness Center (SOLD OUT)
Reily Student Recreation Center, Tulane University
Located on Tulane University’s campus in uptown New Orleans, the Reily Student Recreation Center, constructed in 1989, totals more than 156,000 square feet of recreation space featuring a functional fitness training room, weight room, fitness studios, multi-purpose wood floor gymnasiums, a newly renovated Natatorium, indoor track, and an outdoor turf field and tennis courts. The Reily Student Recreation Center is host to multiple events including NCAA Swim and Dive meets and Special Olympics. The Reily Center provides opportunities for enhanced health and well-being for students, faculty, staff, emeritus, and alumni members.
Ochsner Fitness Center
Harahan, LA
Opened in 1988, Ochsner Fitness Center is a multipurpose, family fitness center owned by Ochsner Health System. With locations in Harahan, Downtown New Orleans, and Metairie, Louisiana, Ochsner Fitness Center offers diverse fitness experiences tailored to meet your wellness needs. Each facility provides state-of-the-art equipment, group fitness classes, personal training, and family-friendly amenities, making it easy to stay active and healthy.
Harahan is the flagship location, featuring a wide range of amenities for all ages and fitness levels. This spacious facility includes child care, multiple pools (indoor and outdoor), sauna, steam, cold plunge, basketball court, an indoor track, a cycling studio, and pickleball courts. Harahan is also home to Kidsports, a youth activity program offering everything from camps, gymnastics to swimming, ensuring families can stay active together. Downtown New Orleans offers a convenient location in the business district, with modern equipment, personal training, and group classes tailored to fit busy schedules. Heritage Plaza in Metairie provides a neighborhood setting, with child care, personalized training, group classes, cycle studio, indoor pool, hot tubs, sauna and stream. At all three locations, you’ll find expert trainers, wellness programs, and a supportive community to help you stay motivated on your fitness journey.
Tuesday, November 19
7:30am - 5:00pm
Tour B: LSU and Southern University (SOLD OUT)
URec, Louisiana State University
LSU’s reimagined collegiate recreation center reopened in September 2017. Come see what University Recreation has added over the past eight years to enliven recreation opportunities for the campus community. Specifically, a free arcade, a new hi/low ropes course featuring a 450ft zip line, an outdoor fitness area, pickleball courts, and an outdoor park for students. Learn about our campus partnerships to provide recreation beyond the recreation center and how LSU URec provides holistic well-being opportunities beyond fitness and sports.
Horace Wesley Moody, Sr. Intramural Sports Complex
Southern University and A&M College
The Southern University and A&M College - Horace Wesley Moody, Sr. Intramural Sports Complex not only honors the life and legacy of Horace Moody Sr., but it brings together the university students, faculty/staff and surrounding Baton Rouge, Louisiana community with its welcoming design and multi-purpose spaces that facilitate the health and wellness of anyone who enters its doors. The Horace W. Moody, Sr. Intramural Sports Complex is the first collegiate recreational sports facility named for a founding member of NIRSA. The Intramural Sports Complex is located near student housing on campus, which makes for a quick commute that provides a gymnasium with two courts for multiple uses, a weight room that rivals any state-of-the-art commercial gym, locker rooms and student/community lounge areas. In addition to the basketball and volleyball courts, the university has multi-purpose classrooms where instructors can offer Zumba, kickboxing, yoga classes, X-Treme Fitness, intense cardio and more to students, faculty/staff and members of the community.
