The key to a successful sports club is student leadership, student input, and student responsibility. As a student-initiated activity, the members of each club play an important role in determining the scope and direction of the club. Sports clubs expose students to new activities, continue and enhance skills already acquired, develop student leadership skills, provide opportunities for students to develop positive interpersonal relationships and promote an appreciation for cultural diversity, and enhance holistic development through leisure and physical activities. Carolina body building and fitness, Columbia ballroom dancing, cricket, fencing, judo, lacrosse, men's volleyball, mountaineering and whitewater, rugby, scuba, seidokan aikido, ultimate Frisbee, women's rugby, world tae kwon do, women's field hockey, and women's lacrosse. Student Fitness Programs Various aerobic sessions are offered at the Blatt P.E. Center.
Students can also learn to become certified aerobics instructors.
A primary goal of the program is to enhance the lifelong fitness pursuits of the USC community. Job opportunities are available for USC students each semester. Lifecycles, treadmills, rowers, stairmasters, nautilus steppers, and recumbent cycles have been purchased by the P.E. center and are located in the balcony area of gym 305 of the P.E. center and in the aerobic studio. The University of South Carolina Student Government exists to respond to student needs and concerns on a variety of topics. Over the years Student Government has addressed issues ranging from visitation privileges to campus security to obtaining representation on the Board of Trustees.