Augustana University Recreational Services' programs offer vigorous, fun-filled, health-promoting, physical activity conducive to wellness and personal development.
Both formal and informal activities encompass team sports, individual and dual sports, competitive and non-competitive activities and a variety of fitness programs. Augustana's Recreational Services provides programs and activities centered in fitness and wellness, sport club activities, intramurals and more.
Augustana University
Recreational Services
Elmen Center
2505 S. Grange Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD 57197
The Augustana Esports Program — the university’s home of organized gaming — has found a space to call home on campus. Established in 2022, the program acquired a lab on the second floor of the Fryxell Humanities Center this past spring.
Augustana has raised $2.1 of the estimated $2.9 million needed to revitalize the Elmen Center, located on the southwest corner of 33rd Street and Grange Avenue on the university’s campus. The Bob ‘52 & Rita (Hale) Elmen Family Foundation and the James ‘60 & Eloise (Saugstad) ‘61 Elmen Foundation recently contributed $2 million to the project. With the funds the university has already received, Augustana will begin making updates this spring with the anticipated project completion by Summer 2026.
Augustana announced that the university is partnering with the Minnesota Vikings and five other NCAA institutions to launch a new collegiate women’s flag football league. Participating schools include AU, Concordia College Moorhead, Gustavus Adolphus College, Bethel University, the University of Northwestern, St. Paul and University of Wisconsin, Stout.