Employee Wellness Center

The Employee Wellness Center is open 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to serve the needs of the faculty and staff. To access the fitness center, all employees will need their passport. Locker rooms and shower facilities are now open.

The Center is located at 1913 North Centennial Avenue (behind the Administration building at College Station).

Cardio Equipment includes:

• LifeFitness Stationary Bikes
• LifeFitness Treadmills
• Schwinn Spinners
• Precor Ellipiticals
• Precor AMT
• Octane Lateral X

Strength Equipment includes:

LifeFitness Strength Series

• Leg Press
• Leg Extension
• Leg Curl
• Chest Press
• Row
• Shoulder Press
• Weight Assisted Chin-up/Dip

Free Weight Equipment includes:

Hammer Strength

• Flat Bench Press
• Half Power Rack
• Preacher Curl
• Decline Bench
• Dumbbells up to 50 lbs
• Medicine Balls

Health Coaching

Coaching is a nonjudgmental way to approach wellness; it is designed to help identify behaviors that may need to be modified to improve a healthy lifestyle. Working with our Employee Wellness Director, you will identify a wellness vision and work toward goals specifically tailored to your own needs and objectives. Coaching is confidential and information is not shared with anyone on campus. Participation in coaching appointments does contribute towards the HPU Point Program.

Melissa Marion

Director of Employee Wellness

Melissa Marion is the inaugural Director of Employee Wellness at High Point University; she is a two-time graduate of HPU (BS in Exercise Science and MS in Sport Studies) and has been an active Health and Wellness professional for over 20 years. She began her career working for the YMCA of Greater High Point as the Wellness and Membership Directors; she then, joined Novant Health’s employee wellness team as the Lead Health and Wellness Navigator. In 2014, she was offered the opportunity to design and implement the Employee Wellness Program for her alma mater and jumped at the chance bringing a wealth of hands on leadership experience and wellness knowledge. She holds certifications as National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), a Wellcoaches Health and Wellness Coach, ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Worksite Wellness Specialist, and Certified Worksite Wellness Program Manager. Additionally, she holds certificates as a group exercise instructor, personal trainer, and CPR/First Aid Instructor.

In her spare time she teaches group exercise classes for the Hartley Drive Family YMCA and serves as a part-time orientation trainer for the YMCA of Greensboro. She enjoys singing with her teenage daughter in their church praise team and also chair’s the daycare at her local church. She and her husband reside in High Point and have 2 daughters.