Not Your Average Recreation Center

One of the first things incoming students see on their school tour of Texas Tech is the Robert H. Ewalt Student Recreation Center. The facility has many things to offer students besides a good workout. According to Texas Tech Rec Sports, the student recreation center offers a variety of services to students, including fitness classes, team sports […]

Hammocks Prohibited in Most Lubbock Parks

Rory Polhamus, a junior engineering major from Houston, recalls one gorgeous day in Lubbock when he tried to hang his hammock in Tech Terrace Park. A recent transfer to Tech with no knowledge of local ordinances, he didn’t enjoy his Eagle Nest Outfitter’s hammock for long. “One of the students came over and told me […]

Parks and Trek: Lubbock Offers Scenery, Leisure

By Kodichi Nwankwo Paula Clark, a Lubbock native who is a second-grade teacher in Crosbyton, cherishes memories of visiting Higginbotham Park on 19th Street with her children. Frequent trips to the green spot helped her get through her divorce in the early 2000s. “I didn’t have a lot of money for a vacation so I […]

YWCA to Open Water Park and Gym Facility

By Elizabeth Hale  The Lubbock chapter of the Young Women’s Christian Association is set to open a new outdoors water park and an exercise facility in Lubbock this summer. The renovation has been in the works since 2008 — two years after the YWCA bought the Sun ‘N Fun Aquatics Center at 6204 Elgin Ave., […]