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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Georgia Tech Site Visit

On November 17, 2011 our class visited Georgia Tech.  The visit included:

Site Facilities:  Separately, list and briefly summarize all areas/aspects of the sports site you toured.

·         Weight rooms
·         Rock wall
·         Diving pool
·         Competition pool
·         Recreational pool with lazy river
·         Basketball courts
·         Indoor soccer
·         Racquetball rooms
·         Volleyball courts






Career Possibilities:  What are potential career paths associated with this sports site?  Please list and briefly explain as many as you can identify.

  • Personal Trainer
  • Rock wall attendant
  • Lifeguard
  • Aquatics director
  • Management
    • Membership services
  • Sales
    • Front desk
  • Grounds keeping
  • Food Services


What are the most significant things you learned from this site visit?  What questions arose from this visit?

  • The GA Tech Recreational Center has the largest concrete ceiling in the world. 
  • It is cheap for students, faculty, and alumni to have a membership
  • The Olympics were housed here in 1996.
  • The facility is accessible for handicap persons
  • The facility costs a lot of money to operate so they hold swim meets and competitions to help bring in money.
  • The basketball courts also serve as volleyball and badminton courts
  • The building is partly the remnants of the 1996 Olympics

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