Elon Tour

I met some great people at Elon through a connection I have there.  You have to network.  Trust me, you have too. 

I met an academic adviser today at Elon and we discussed how much she enjoys her job and how rewarding it can be to work with student-athletes.  She talked about how there are the athletes you never worry about, the ones you worry about once a week, once a day and once an hour. 

I could probably do this with UCWS pretty easily.

Anyway, onto the athletics facilities.  Elon is beautiful.  Everything is so well maintained.  They are a member of the Southern Conference.  They have a nice gym, which is fairly small.  They recently replaced the center video board and four video boards in the corners of the gym.  

The football stadium seats about 8,000 and it looks really nice.  Baseball field is turf, and again it has beautiful brick on the outside, like all the other facilities.  Soccer had a nice field.

I do feel bad for the football players at Elon though.  They have a practice field that is twice as long as a normal field.  That must make for grueling wind sprints.

Elon also has really nice, and well maintained, student rec fields.  The field that the students play on for soccer is probably as nice as Morrone Stadium at UConn.  Elon also features a driving range on campus and a putting green that looks like it was imported from Pinehurst.  Darn good I didn't go to school there, because I probably would have been on the driving range all day. 

Elon University is a beautiful campus and a nice private school.  I loved their facilities and you should definitely check out their school.