GWU 2025-2026 Parents Calendar-6-27-2025 - Flipbook - Page 44
Families Handbook
• Club Sports: Club Sports are registered student organizations
established by students who are motivated by a common interest to
participate in a specific sport. Club Sports are formed to provide an
opportunity for members to learn new skills, engage in competition or
enjoy recreational activities. GW currently has 43 active club sports and
over 1600 student-athletes representing the University in intercollegiate
competition.
• Fitness and Wellness: Join us for group fitness classes with high
energy instructors that suit a variety of goals! From boosting academic
performance to optimizing health, group fitness offers community
support and premium class formats to enhance your self-care and
take your fitness to new heights.Find joyful movement, enhance wellbeing, and receive individualized guidance and support with GW’s
personal training program. With four highly experienced and extensively
educated trainers, you’ll receive the guidance you need to improve your
health while meeting your goals.
• Intramural sports offer students opportunities to meet new people
with similar interests as well as compete against each other in a fun,
safe environment. We offer sports including indoor soccer, basketball,
volleyball, wiffleball, and flag football, just to name a few. It is free for
students to play. Leagues are offered multiple days of the week. We
welcome all skill levels–whether you used to be a star high school athlete,
or just a beginner. Also, for those who may want to hone a skill, we are
looking for sports enthused students to join our IM staff to be officials
for league games.
• Outdoor Adventure: Adventure Bound is our outdoor co-curricular,
pre-semester experience for new, incoming first-year students. Meet
fellow students, learn more about life at GW, and build lasting memories
in the great outdoors.
GW TRAiLS is an outdoor adventure and leadership program that is
committed to connecting the GW community to the outdoors. Join
GW TRAiLS on one of our weekend trips or on an extended break for a
longer immersive outdoor experience.
Campus Recreation is excited to announce the revitalization of the
Summit Low Ropes Course on the Mount Vernon Campus. This initiative
will provide an engaging space for the GW community to build teamwork,
trust, and leadership skills in an outdoor setting. We can’t wait to
welcome students, faculty, and staff to experience the course firsthand!
2025-2026
Student Outreach & Support
Website: students.gwu.edu/wellbeing
Phone Number: 202-994-1489
Email: wellbeing@gwu.edu gwcares@gwu.edu
Instagram: @wellbeingatgw
Student Outreach and Support aims to help students succeed by
connecting them to support resources and helping to develop plans
of action to meet their goals. In addition to supporting first-generation,
transfer, off-campus, and military and veteran-affiliated students, the team
works with any student going through a challenging time to help them
navigate long-term illness, family emergencies or other issues.
How We Define Well-Being:
Health - The state of being free from illness or injury; ability to participate
in activities of daily life. Wellness - The state of physical health in which
people have the ability and energy to do what we want in life, without
chronic suffering. Well-Being - Encompasses the broader holistic
dimensions of mental, physical, and social well-being.
Dimensions of Well-Being:
Well-being is personal. To be well at GW is to honor your needs by
asking for help, finding a sense of belonging through community, and
committing to exploring your varying identities and beliefs.
For more information visit, students.gwu.edu/wellbeing
• CARE Team: The CARE Team is the University’s case management
system that connects any student who may be struggling with relevant
resources and support. Any community member can submit a CARE
referral for a student at go.gwu.edu/care
• First-Gen Support: First-generation college students are those whose
parents did not complete a four-year, baccalaureate degree, however,
recognize that there are many definitions for what it means to be a firstgen college student. At GW, we aim to build a strong community for first
generation students to help them with their transition to college life.
students.gwu.edu/first-generation
• Health Promotion Education: Aims to educate students to make
informed and responsible decisions regarding their health and wellbeing through peer education and collaboration with other service areas
and departments on campus. students.gwu.edu/wellbeing
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