Facilities

• Northwest's extensive facilities will keep you busy, whether you're in class or just having fun. The Lamkin Activity Center has been recently renovated, and the main gymnasium, Bearcat Arena, received new seats, new decor and air conditioning.
• In the Student Recreation Center, students can walk, jog, play basketball or play racquetball. The Center is also used for classes, and students put in hours there checking out equipment and planning intramural programs.
• At Northwest's Fitness Center, individuals may also get wellness assessments and work out. Students in the department have the opportunity to work at the Fitness Center for hands-on experience and for academic credit.
• Northwest also has a dance studio, tennis courts, soccer field, baseball and softball field, football field and track. There is also an area for teaching gymnastics, a newly remodeled training room and a special abilities laboratory.
• HPERD manages, develops programs and supervises a 315-acre tract of lake-front property at Mozingo Lake. The Mozingo Outdoor Education and Recreation Area (MOERA) houses a 50-foot climbing wall, a 50-foot alpine tower, fishing areas, a boat dock, and with plans underway to develop a trap and skeet area as well as field and target archery areas.

Achievements

Making of the plans, setting the goals and achieving something which cannot be attained easily is called as an achievements. This also shows how one cleared the obstacles and got success. Here are Some of the Awards won in the department.

Just for Fun

Dates in History

The Project

In the spring of 2003, Dr. Jim Johnson with the Maryville City Manager, Matt Chesnut and Shelly Hersh created a City Wellness Council to address the Health and Wellness needs of the City of Maryville Employees. During the spring semester, classes of Dr. Johnson have presented numerous Wellness Programs for City Employees, as well as Needs Assessments, and a City Health Fair.

Realizing the success for a wellness program for city employees; Dr. Terry Robertson (Chair Department) and Matt Chesnut (City Manager) with the approval of the City Council (Dr. Ron Moss, Mayor); the University and City created a joint partnership between the University and the City.

This partnership created a new Graduate Assistantship for the department and opportunities for Health and Recreation students to refine their crafts in working with numerous City Wellness Programs. Beginning in the fall of 2003, Dr. Jim Johnson was contracted to be the City Consultant, and since then a Graduate Assistant has been contracted to act as the City Wellness Director.

The City can boast a healthy city participation rate in year-round wellness programs and offerings do to the partnership between the University and the City of Maryville.

Empower Me

Empower me is a unique community-based project designed to build resiliency, responsibility and self respect among youth who find themselves on the pathway towards adjudication. In its pilot phase, the project served eighteen, 14-16 old youth identified and served by the first status offenders program of Buchanan Country. The primary goal of the project is to reduce the number of first offenders who remain in or return to the justice system.

Empower me was funded, designed and pilot through a partnership between the heartland Foundation of Northwest Missouri and the Juvenile Office of the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of the Buchanan Country.