Marshall Recreation Center — Local services in Huntington

Overrated and Overpriced. The eight basketball courts themselves are nice, but they only have two or three balls. They claim theft but thats easily fixable with checkouts and if not checked in charged highly. There are three lockerooms with ample storage in mostly broken lockers. Usually takes me awhile to find one that shuts so I can put my lock on it. The two floors above have lifting and cardio machines. The cardio machines are fine but the weightlifting equipment is old and akward, for instance the benchs are so narrow ur shoulders hang off and ur butts off the bench just so you can have the bar square with chest. All there weightlifting equipment looks as if it was a hand down from the old Huntington High YMCA. When I come I bring my own basketball and soccerball. Again even the soccerballs looks like there from a third world country. The friendliness of the staff at the front desk is a 3/10 chance theyre nice. Back to the Overpricing, its $60 a month for Alumni and Employees. $232 a Semester per students (its auto added into tuitions). I love Marshall and am a proud son of Marshall so I would love to see The Rec great. For any comments or questions our @ is in the bio and we'd love to hear of any experiences...

This is a nice facility but it’s supposed to be a University facility exclusive to University constituents. Instead it’s like your local Huntington YMCA. They throw birthday parties for little kids, hold day care services in the building while they close off areas of the gym to students for the kids in day care. It’s an absolute joke. I was even kicked out of the pool one day because they said kids from a birthday party were renting it out so I had to leave. The worst part of all this is the fact that all students are paying for this facility out of their tuition regardless of whether you go to the rec center or not. I’ve never seen anything like this and how its acceptable at all. Try and get access to a University rec center anywhere else in the country and they tell you that you have to be affiliated with the University somehow or be a student in order to enter for the day. This place sells day passes to anyone off the street and runs a separate business inside the rec center. Not even sure how this is allowed and it’s really embarrassing to...

Like it's a great facility. And I don't want to narc on anyone. But one staff member is coming into work sick with "bronchitis" and having a wet cough and having close interactions with many people.

I don't know what I'm expecting. A bunch of college kids making decisions on how to work or when to work is probably the cause of a lot of drama. I sympathize with the college experience and the silly decisions they can make.

I guess my interaction makes me skeptical on the type of oversight actual campus authority has over the fitness center.

I remember being careless as a college student. But there were actually working professional people to pick up my slack or correct me.

While I am pretty lax on restrictions, that comes with trusting everyone to stay home if you are legitimately coughing and sick.

If I can't trust staff to be on their game then like why should...