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Informal Recreation

  • Students playing cornhole in Alumni Park
  • Students playing jumbo Jenga on the grass in Alumni Park
  • Student tossing a bean bag at Alumni Park
  • Students playing lawn games at Alumni Park

Informal Rentals Program

Informal recreation includes free recreational sports equipment rentals as well as access to open recreational facilities available throughout the Malibu campus.  In an effort to increase recreational equipment and activity options for the student body, Campus Recreation provides Games and Sports Activity gear rentals which are available for checkout out of the Pepperdine Fitness Center during normal operating hours. Items available include, tennis rackets, basketballs, soccer balls, footballs, volleyballs, kickball, cornhole, spikeball, volleyball nets, and more!

Open recreational facilities other than the main fitness facilities on campus include; Alumni Park Field, Marie Canyon Field, beach volleyball courts, tennis courts, campus pool, track, outdoor basketball courts, teqball, and a nine-hole disc golf course.

Rentals Membership

 

  Rental Process for Individuals

This rental process applies to all individuals who wish to rent informal rental items for themselves. Reservations cannot be made in advance for individuals at this time. All equipment must be checked out in person on the day-of, returned same-day and are offered on a first-come-first-served basis. 

To reserve equipment:

  • Step 1 - Head to the Pepperdine Fitness Center front desk and let the staff know that you are wanting to rent some equipment.
  • Step 2 - Create a DSE membership for rentals if you do not have one already.
  • Step 3 - Select which item(s) you would like to rent.
  • Step 4 -  Review and sign the Informal Rental Equipment contract and the Instructions for Informal Rental Equipment Care.
  • Step 5 - Collect your equipment and have fun!
  Rental Process for Groups

This rental process applies to groups of two or more people. All group rentals can be made up to three weeks in advance and are based on inventory availability. Groups may reserve equipment for a duration period of up to five days at a time.

Please contact julian.baker@pepperdine.edu to make any group reservations and special requests.

 

Recreational Facility Schedules

  Basketball Open Gym

Campus Recreation offers open-gym basketball at Firestone Fieldhouse (FFH) in the fall and spring semesters and is open to the entire Pepperdine community. No signups or pre-registration is required and equipment can be checked out of our Pepperdine Fitness Center if needed. View above for more information on equipment checkouts.

FFH houses many sporting events and campus activities throughout the year, making it tough to nail down a true, consistent open-gym schedule. Therefore, the guidelines below are meant to provide a general schedule for open-gym basketball hours during the fall & spring semesters:

  • Mon-Fri: open after 6pm*
  • Sat/Sun: mornings & evenings*

*Some exceptions apply due to campus programming primarily by athletics and campus recreation. Firestone Fieldhouse Gym will be closed during:

  • Athletics events and competitions. Visit pepperdinewaves.com for the complete competition schedule.
  • Intramural sport events. The below schedules begin three-four weeks into a new semester and run up until finals week with time off for major holidays and school breaks.
    • Fall: Mon-Wed from 8:30 PM-midnight
    • Spring: Sun-Wed from 8 PM-midnight

Note: Due to the high volume of events scheduled in FFH, changes to the schedule are not always announced on a wide-scale. For any questions about the schedule, please feel free to contact Julian Baker, coordinator of recreational sports at julian.baker@pepperdine.edu or 310.506.6202.

  Volleyball Open Gym

Campus Recreation offers open-gym volleyball at Firestone Fieldhouse in the fall and spring semesters and is open to the entire Pepperdine community. No signups or pre-registration is required and all equipment is provided! Just bring your Pepperdine ID for on-site check-in and have fun!

  • Wednesdays: 8p-midnight*

*Some exceptions apply due to athletics competitions and visiting team practices. All changes to the open-gym schedule are posted on the intramurals webpage - scroll down to the “News” Section for the appropriate updates.

Note: For any questions about the schedule, please feel free to contact Julian Baker, coordinator of recreational sports at julian.baker@pepperdine.edu or 310.506.6202.

  Pickleball Open Play

Schedule coming soon!

Note: For any questions about the schedule, please feel free to contact Julian Baker, coordinator of recreational sports at julian.baker@pepperdine.edu or 310.506.6202