Does anyone on their campus allow alumni or locals in the area to play intramurals?
At Campbell University we live in an area where there aren't many adult parks and rec leagues. This would give alumni who still live in the area the chance to play competitive sports and stay connected to the university.
I was wondering what people thought about this idea, and what rate to charge?
Thanks!
Our facility here at South Dakota State University is open to both students and community members. As far as IM's are concerned, we have set up a system to allow non-students to participate. As we allow community members to have memberships, we charge an additional $25 per semester for community Wellness Center members to take part in our program. Something new that we've instituted for this academic year is to allow non-members of our facility to participate as well. For a non-member, the cost per semester is $75.
Prior to this year, all participants were required to have a membership which at first purchase was a minimum of 3 months. We hope that removing that requirement and having a pass for non-students to participate in IM without use of the facility itself outside of the IM activity they're taking part in will pull in some who may have been pushed away by the prospect of the increased cost of a membership.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Similar to South Dakota University, Mount Royal University (MRU) in Calgary, Alberta allowa public members to register in our leagues. Because Calgary has several local students, we find MRU students often 'round out' their teams with their friends from high school or other leagues. We do have some fully public member teams, but they're mostly students from other institutions.
With public members, they pay $90/sport as opposed to $40 that MRU students pay. We provide them with 'gate access' on their receipts (we use ActiveNet) so they can access the facility only during their scheduled intramural times. We understand that some individuals may take advantage of this system and use other areas of the facility but we've weighed the cost-benefit and decided we're okay with that. We also have member pricing for those who purchase memberships with us.
Allowing public members to participate is certainly a nice way to generate some additional revenue and provide various competition to leagues with lower registration numbers, but we have cancelled leagues which are dominated primarily by public members as we feel we're not serving the user group that we should.
Happy to chat more about any of this if you decide to make these decisions. Good luck!
At Oregon State, we allow anyone with a valid membership to our recreation facility to participate in Intramurals. We require people to be OSU affiliates in order to purchase a recreation membership, and alumni count as affiliates. So alumni are allowed to play, but I don't believe that any are signed up to play for this term.
