Health & Recreation

Explore our 80,000 square foot recreation and fitness facility featuring a full array of intramural leagues and sports, over 60 group fitness classes weekly, a full cardio fleet, multiple weight lifting options, an indoor track, club sports and more. There are many ways to enhance your wellbeing at our Power Center.

Power Center
Hours of Operation
Monday through Thursday 6:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Friday 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturdays & Sundays 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Holiday closures November 1, November 27-December 1, December 21-January 2
Elevator doors close 20 minutes prior to closing Check our Instagram for special holiday hours.

Towers Pool, Duquesne's on-campus swimming facility, features six 25-yard lanes. Be sure to check current hours of operation.

Get Involved, Get Moving

Thanks to the full scope of services offered by Duquesne's Center for Student Wellbeing, including Counseling Services, Health Services and Recreation Services, student Lily Faith DeLong has all the resources she needs to train hard and meet her boldest goals as she approaches her next competition.

Four Floors of Fitness

There are many ways to enhance your wellbeing at the Power Center! Our ADA-compliant facilities include wheelchair-accessible entrances and elevators, and signs and buttons with braille. Locker rooms and restrooms have bathroom stalls, sinks, water fountains and showers all accessible by wheelchairs.

girls riding exercise bikesWith more than 65 cardio machines, a selectorized weight circuit, a main group fitness studio and HIIT zone, and plentiful locker rooms, you're sure to have what you need to achieve your goals. The group fitness and multipurpose studios are ADA-compliant, and four wheelchair-accessible lockers include changing benches. All upper-body selectorized machines, Smith Machine, dumbbells and cable units are also wheelchair-accessible.

A 90-foot by 50-foot multipurpose court is available for basketball, pickle ball, badminton, volleyball and other activities as well as the FITT (flipping tires, battle ropes and sandbags), dumbbell studio, spin studio and cable machine studio.

Various weight machines are available in Room 302 and dumbbells in Room 303, all of which are wheelchair-accessible.

Two wheelchair-accessible lockers are available with changing benches. 

A 100-meter, 16-lap, 4-lane indoor track is wheelchair accessible. You'll also find fixed bars and free weights on this floor. There are no exercise rooms on 3M.

A 90-foot by 50-foot multipurpose court is available for basketball, pickle ball, badminton, volleyball and other activities. There's also a racquetball court, bench room, leg room, plate loaded studio, and Synergy 360 room. 

All four exercise rooms are wheelchair-accessible. There are no locker rooms on the 4th floor.


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Free Group Fitness Classes

With two studios, our Power Center offers classes to meet all of your needs. Whether you are interested in kickboxing, zumba, spinning, pilates, or yoga, we believe you can find a high quality class to fit into your demanding schedule. Bring a mat and join us!

Group fitness session

Special Wellbeing Programs Fall & Spring Semesters

Power Madness Basketball Tournament, Fitness Bash, Blacklight Spin and Yoga, Spin-a-thon, Self Defense Classes and Meditation Series

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Intramurals

Our intramural program offers an opportunity for interesting and rewarding competition in Mens, Womens, Co-ed, Greek, Freshmen, and Faculty/ Staff/ Administration divisions. It provides a variety of activities that the entire University community can participate in regardless of preference or athletic ability. Leagues and tournaments include basketball, soccer, touch football, volleyball and many more.

Girl playing tennis

Club Sports

Club Sports at Duquesne are to fill the recreational and extramural competitive needs of students. Our programs can emphasize instruction and/or competition. We offer the following sports: Wrestling, Dukettes Dance Team, Track, Baseball, Field Hockey, Golf, Ice Hockey, Men’s Lacrosse, Men’s Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Women’s Lacrosse, Women’s Soccer and Women’s Volleyball.

Choose Your Sport & Get Started

“I've been in Pittsburgh for about 16 years now, and I've seen such big changes in the city over that period of time, such as access to public bikes, the addition of new parks and all of the trails by the river that are so well maintained.”

Amber Lasure, Assistant Director for Recreational Services at Duquesne University
Pittsburgh ranks in top 20 "fittest cities" in nation

Recreation Services

Dan McCarthy

Director

Amber Lasure

Assistant Director

Mike Cecil

Intramurals Coordinator