The CSI locker rooms in building 1R on the 204-acre campus are terribly kept and are used by each team on campus- Track and Field, Cross country, Soccer, Basketball, Swimming and Diving, Baseball, and Softball.
By: Jess M. Johnson
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College of Staten Island is home to 269 athletes who use the Locker Rooms daily, along with the general public.
The College of Staten Island athletic locker rooms are not cleaned properly or kept up with. The shower curtains in the women’s locker rooms are covered from top to bottom in mold, while the men’s locker room does not even have shower curtains. If the shower curtains are not bad enough, out of 8 showers only 5 work in the women’s and 4 showers work for the men’s locker rooms due to missing handles and broken shower heads.
The lockers themselves in the athletic locker rooms are rusted and broken. Cockroaches, ants, spiders, and centipedes crawl throughout the locker rooms crawling into athletes’ bags as well as hiding in the showers. Dirt covers the floors and are not properly picked up but instead pushed into corners never to be touched for years.
In the women’s locker room bathroom only 2 out of 4 sinks work and run water, with 3 out of 4 working toilets. The men’s locker room bathroom has 2 out of 4 working sinks and the handicap stall toilet has been completely removed. The toilets in each locker room go out of service and are not repaired for at least six months.
The public has access to these locker rooms where athletes leave their belongings while at practice or class. The men’s Swimming and Diving locker room has not had a lock on their locker room door since the summer of 2018 when it broke due to the public.
The teams: men’s and women’s soccer, track and field are forced to use the general public locker room where anyone can go through someone’s belongings easily since there is no door or a lock. Countless times there have been reports of stolen belongings from the athletes due to the administration failing to provide proper locker rooms for the athletes.
I believe, as an athlete here at the College of Staten Island, we should at least be supplied with safe, clean locker rooms due to the dedication we each put towards our sports.
