There's a particular kind of coordinator or assistant director who becomes, almost by accident, the most generous mentor in their entire department, the one every student staff member wants supervising them, the one whose one-on-ones somehow always run long because the conversation kept being worth ...

Ask a member services desk to describe the worst complaint they've fielded this month, and you'll get an answer that sounds almost too small to matter: the pool is two degrees too hot. Not an injury. Not a facility hazard. Two degrees. And yet the member delivering that complaint is rarely actually ...

Mark your calendar for Friday, February 19 through Sunday, February 21, 2027. FitExpo is back, and registration is already open.

The Southeast Collegiate Fitness Expo presented by IFTA brings together roughly 600 collegiate fitness leaders from more than 50 campuses for three days of hands-on learn...

Every spring, some version of this happens. Three (or more!) of your strongest instructors graduate in May. One of them was teaching four classes a week and covering subs for everyone else. You knew it was coming, and you still walk into August short, rebuilding the schedule around whoever is left a...

Somewhere in a filing cabinet, or more likely a shared drive nobody has cleaned out in years, most collegiate recreation departments are still sitting on a library of promotional photography that tells on them. Sweat mid-drip. Faces contorted somewhere between effort and pain. A cheerful, oblivious ...

There's a specific complaint that circulates in almost every campus recreation staff meeting sooner or later, usually delivered with a sigh rather than any real malice: this generation just doesn't have the same work ethic. It gets said about student employees who won't pick up an extra shift. It ge...

Mark your calendar for Saturday, November 7, 2026. Something new is coming to the Northeast, and it was built with collegiate fitness pros and students in mind.

Collegiate Fit Philly is a one-day, high-energy education experience for the people who bring collegiate fitness to life. Group fitness in...

I didn't grow up around anyone who worked in higher education. I was a first-generation college student, which meant most of what I learned about how a university actually worked I learned by watching, asking, and occasionally getting it wrong. I started at UNC Charlotte in pre-pharmacy, which tells...

Every industry has a tell for when a good idea is about to be ruined by its own popularity, and in fitness, the tell is usually a shopping list. Cold plunge. Infrared sauna. Percussion massage gun station. Compression boots. A vendor walks the floor, a director gets excited, a purchase order gets si...

Three days. One city. A community of leaders who spend their careers building belonging for everyone else, finally given a few days to build some of it for themselves.

That's the simplest way to describe what happened in Charleston this year. However, it undersells almost everything that actually m...

What happens when you put a group of collegiate fitness leaders in a room and ask one simple question: “What are you building for the fall?”

You get a conversation full of ideas, challenges, and real-time innovation.

Our first Fit Friday LIVE session inside the Collegiate Fitness Community brought...