Of the roughly $9 million UB Athletics collects from a student athletic fee, 92 percent goes toward servicing the Division I varsity programs and its 535 student-athletes, and just 8 percent goes toward servicing the recreation services available to all 30,000 students.
Marcus Hutchins, who worked for UB recreation for 16 years, recently visited SUNY College at Brockport’s $44 million, 138,000-square-foot student recreation center and had one thought: How can UB not have this?
The center opened in 2012 and includes a state-of-the-art fitness center, weight room, 200-meter running track and courts for basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis and soccer.