Mangilao,Guam–  The University of Guam’s Fitness Center began offering new services this January in partnership with TakeCare Insurance Co. Inc. New fitness classes are being offered such as Zumba, HIIT, and Yoga promoting fitness to the campus community.

UOG Athletics Director Doug Palmer said that the long-term goals for partnering with TakeCare include increasing the fitness and wellness of the UOG Community.

Palmer aims for increasing UOG staff, faculty, students and administrators’ activity levels through the new fitness classes. This partnership will also increase use of the facility by the community and increase revenue for the Field House through memberships and insurance memberships through TakeCare.

Previously, community members could access the Triton Fitness Center through paid memberships. Partnership with TakeCare allows the opportunity to market and promote the facility.

UOG students with a valid school ID may use the facilities as part of the $32.00 paid by each student to the Athletics department every semester. UOG faculty, alumni and community members may pay for membership rates for day, semester, or year usage.

TakeCare members are free to use the facility  if they list the Triton Fitness Center as their primary gym. Donabel Little, TakeCare’s Wellness Program Manager stated that they may develop new fitness programs in the future.

The Triton Fitness Center has undergone extensive renovations over the past several years. In 2015, the facility finished the first phase of a two-phase $3 million project funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the University of Guam capital improvement project fund intended to update the UOG Calvo Field House according to the UOG website.

Palmer hopes that the partnership with TakeCare will encourage more students to use the facilities.

“The main reason we started this partnership was to get more students involved and push our younger aged campus population into better fitness and wellness,” he said.  “My number one priority is to have more students involved with both Triton Fitness Center and the classes.”

For more information about the UOG Triton Fitness Center, contact Doug Palmer at

735-2862 or email palmerd@triton.uog.edu