Telephone: 520-4480/Recorded message: 520-5631
Fax: 520-4466
The athletics and physical recreation program at Carleton, which plays an important role in maintaining and enhancing University spirit, is determined by the policies established by the Athletics Board, a committee consisting of students, faculty members, and administrators. The Board advises the University on matters of athletics and recreation policy through the Office of the President.
At the interuniversity level, Carleton is a member of both the Ontario Universities Athletic Association (for men) and the Ontario Women's Interuniversity Athletic Association. The Varsity men's Ravens teams are basketball, football, cross-country skiing, waterpolo, rugby, swimming, fencing, and soccer. The women's Varsity Ravens teams participate in basketball, volleyball, cross-country skiing, waterpolo, field hockey, swimming, fencing, rowing, and soccer. Full-time graduatestudents are eligible for interuniversity athletics, subject to league regulations.
The intramural program includes touch football, cross-country running, basketball, broomball, tennis, softball, badminton, swimming, squash, team handball, and hockey. Some of these sports are co-educational.
Registration for physical recreation instructional programs for 1996-1997 begins Tuesday September 3, 1996, in the General Office, second floor, Physical Recreation Centre. These programs include fitness classes, step aerobics, aquatics, dance, martial arts, yoga, table tennis, and squash. Free trial classes are available Tuesday, September 10, 1996, from 4:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M.
Carleton's athletics facilities include football and soccer fields, five tennis courts, a broomball rink, a fifty-metre swimming pool, fitness centre, squash courts, Nautilus and heavy-weight training rooms, combatives room, multi-purpose rooms, gymnasium, sports medicine and sports therapy clinics. These facilities are available for use by Carleton students for organized and recreational sports activities.