UO to kick off Nation’s First Campus Running Tour

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UO to kick off Nation’s First Campus Running Tour

‘Track Town, USA’s’ own UO leads the way with first of its kind campus tour

What: Opening run of possibly the first running campus tour in the nation

When: Friday, Sept. 5, at 8:30 a.m. – Tour to finish at Hayward Field at9:15 a.m.

Where: Ford Alumni Center, 1720 East 13^th Ave, Eugene

EUGENE, Ore. – (Sept. 3, 2014) – What could be more fitting for a campus steeped in track history than to offer prospective students and parents the opportunity to tread on the hallowed paths of students and Olympians before them?  Beginning Sept. 5, the University of Oregon will offer campus running tours as a supplement to the existing walking tour.

“There is only one university in the world that could offer a running campus tour of this kind,” said Roger Thompson, the UO’s vice president for enrollment management.

The inaugural tour will be co-hosted by Olympian and UO alumnus Andrew Wheating and student ambassador Ray Grant.

“The excitement and energy that our student ambassadors have brought to this project is infectious,” notes Cora Bennett, director of student orientation programs. “Ray has run the circuit countless times to ensure we have the tour timing down to a science and ensuring not to miss any of the highlights along the way.”

The student tour guides will lead the groups through the picturesque trails surrounding campus, across the river, down Pre’s Trail and complete the course with a victory lap around historic Hayward Field. “It’s fitting that each tour will end with a lap on Hayward’s storied track,” Thompson says.

Editor’s Note:  Members of the media are invited to join the inaugural run on Friday, Sept. 6, at 8:30 a.m.  The tour will depart from the Ford Alumni Center, 1720 East 13^th Avenue, Eugene, and will finish  at 9:15 a.m. at Hayward Field, where media will have opportunities to speak with prospective students, parents, Andrew Wheating and enrollment management leaders. Please contact Jen McCulley,jmccull@uoregon.edu for additional details.

Media Contact: Jen McCulley, 541.346.8880, jmccull@uoregon.edu  

Link: Running Tour

Note: The University of Oregon is equipped with an on-campus television studio with a point-of-origin Vyvx connection, which provides broadcast-quality video to networks worldwide via fiber optic network. In addition, there is video access to satellite uplink, and audio access to an ISDN codec for broadcast-quality radio interviews.