Helping students exercise during a pandemic March 7, 2021 Josh Stewart worked to reopen the Ramsey Student Center during COVID When it was time to get the University of Georgia’s recreational sports facilities reopened after the COVID-19 closures, Josh Stewart was more than ready. After weeks of Zoom meetings about PPE, sanitizing procedures and how to enforce social distancing, Stewart, assistant director for facility operations at the Ramsey Student Center, knew what they needed to do and was eager to get to it. But it wasn’t easy going—particularly the part where he and his team had to move between 400 and 500 pieces of fitness equipment, each weighing 500 to 1,000 pounds.