After a game, a big part of being an athlete is recovery. This includes showering with provided towels and having space to minimize locker room crowding. For football, showers are an essential part of the postgame environment. 

“[After a game], it’s a good environment,” Jack Ziebell ‘23 said. “Everyone likes to get together in the locker room.”

The locker rooms are a space that many athletes utilize. After practice, athletes shower and prepare for their next classes. However, most showers are stuck on extreme temperatures and poor water pressures. Despite the continuous usage of the showers, nothing is being done to fix them.

Additionally, for some sports, the lack of a locker room affects their warmup and ability to easily get to matches/games. Tennis does not have a locker room and has to travel to bathrooms to change, leaving less time for warmups.

“It takes a long time for us to get changed, and we don’t have a lot of time to warm up before matches,” Arjun Rajan ‘25 said. “It always could [affect results].”

The limited space for locker rooms around the athletic wing often leads to several sports sharing locker rooms. The swim team shares their locker room with the freshman basketball and football teams, which often leads to unkempt areas. The sharing of the locker rooms also causes a lack of space and makes the area more crowded. 

“As of right now, it’s sort of nasty from both the football and basketball sides,” Swimmer Steven Ma ‘25 said. “There’s a lot of dirty towels everywhere.”

Towels are an essential part of most locker rooms, as provided towels are easier for athletes than individual towels they have to bring from home. Although most boys’ teams are provided towels by their coaches, it is easy for towels to be misplaced and thrown about. 

“[We’re provided towels], but we end up not having enough towels most of the time,” Nate Taparauskas ‘26 said. “We spend a lot of time cleaning up, but in the morning it’s just completely trashed when we find it.”

The lack of proper locker room conditions leaves some athletes dissatisfied with their ability to recover after games. Greater attention towards shower conditions and spread-out locker rooms is needed to help players succeed.