Sneak peek of things to come now in use at MCV Recreation and Aquatic Center

If you want to get a sneak peek at what kind of improvements the new Cary Street Recreation Complex will have, then you don't have to go any farther than the MCV Campus Aquatic Center locker rooms.

Within the last month, Rec Sports has replaced all of the lockers in the Aquatic Center as well as equipping them with new Digilocks, doing away with the old combination lock setup. Both the men's and women's locker rooms have a number of day use lockers in addition to 40 rentable lockers. So now, instead of having to trek back and forth to the recreation center's locker rooms, you can store your swimming gear in the rentable lockers overnight and get right into the action after checking in with the lifeguards.

The new Digilocks have a keypad with numbers 0-9, a “C” button and a button with a tiny picture of a key. The day use lockers operate on a four-digit code of your choice that you enter to secure the locker and that is cleared once you unlock your locker to make it available for others to use. The rentable lockers also use a numerical code after using the initial unlock code given to you by the front desk, but the rentable lockers remember your code until the locker rental is ended.

With the renovated MCV Recreation and Aquatic Center opening summer 2009 and Cary Street Gym completed in 2010, over the next few months you'll see upgrades such as the new lockers at both the Siegel Center and MCV Recreation Center as they're tested out and incorporated into the new facilities. With these improvements, you can get a taste of what Rec Sports users have to look forward to in the future.