Pandemic Richter Center

The Sandra A and William L Richter Center is the on-campus exercise facility used by the St. Bonaventure faculty, staff and students. It contains two regulation sized basketball courts and a multipurpose court, two squash courts, a rock climbing wall, running track and a state of the art cardiovascular and weight areas with two dance studios. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Richter remained fully operational with a few minor adjustments.

The COVID-19 pandemic brought along multiple changes in campus life as well as where many professors taught their classes. Due to the size of many rooms in Plassman Hall and De La Roche, many classrooms were moved to various locations across campus including the Carney Center, the Reilly Center Hall of Fame Rooms. Another of those locations was the dance studio in the Richter Center. The size of the room allowed for proper social distancing but also limited the amount of students in each class. Classes have since returned to normal, but during the height of the COVID Pandemic, this was the classroom life at St. Bonaventure in both the fall of 2020 and Spring of 2021.