Use Carmichael Gymnasium

Carmichael Gymnasium offers an outdoor and indoor track, swimming pools, basketball courts, racquetball courts, and areas for wrestling, boxing, weight lifting and gymnastics. The Gym gets bigger in 2020 with the opening of the Wellness and Recreation Center, which creates a centralized hub of recreation and wellness for campus. It provides an additional 20,000 square feet of much-needed fitness space, including additional fitness centers (informal strength and conditioning), functional training space, performance studios, state-of-the-art climbing center dedicated for recreational use, wellness space, teaching kitchen, small group training and multipurpose spaces, and more.

In 1940, William Donald Carmichael (1900-1961) became Vice President and Financial Officer for the three-college, Consolidated University system of the time. After serving in the Air Corps during World War I, Carmichael earned his degree in business administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, he was active in athletics and had been captain of the basketball team. He became an advertising executive and stock broker in New York before returning to North Carolina.

During his administration, Carmichael supported funding for the completion of the gymnasium, Reynolds Coliseum, a state educational TV system, Burlington Laboratories’ nuclear reactor, and the William Neal Reynolds Professorships. One of his characteristic words was “imagineering.”

To see workout times and options, visit the gym’s website: http://recreation.ncsu.edu/