Wheels of Tranquility, a new 4-wheeled skating club on campus, is the first skating club Georgia Southern has ever had.

“I’ve heard many people say they wanted to start a club but never followed through on it,” said founding President Cody Alexander. “I’m all about action.”

The new opportunity Wheels of Tranquility has given him and all the different possibilities the club has created makes Alexander very excited about the future.

“I already got so many ideas of what we can do and how we can change the skating scene of Statesboro,” said Alexander.

Alexander has been skating for four years. He started skating the night he got bored while working at a skating rink.

“I was so concentrated on not falling that I forgot about everything else that was going on in my life at the time,” said Alexander.

Alexander hopes to accomplish that same feeling with students on campus.

One of the main purposes of Wheels of Tranquility is to help students with mental, physical and social health.

“That’s how we came up with the name,” said Alexander.

“When you skate, you feel at ease, and hopefully we’ll give people a chance to vent out all their frustrations with school,” he said.

Vice President Brandon Howard is equally excited about Wheels of Tranquility.

“We love to skate, and we want to service the community while we skate,” said Howard.

Howard designed the logo for the club and is in charge of organizing events.

He has planned for the club members to go to an elementary school and perform for the children and give out skating tips.

Although he has only been skating for one year. Howard said he “knows the basics” and can teach others how skate.

“I hope the club gives students another alternative from the usual pastimes of Georgia Southern,” said Howard.

Alexander and Howard both advocate the networking abilities of skating.

They said skating is not just for kids despite what most people think and they have met plenty of people of all different ages and social status while at skating rinks.

For instance, Alexander and Howard met each other at a skating rink called Golden Glide in Decatur, Ga.

There they both discovered that they went to the same college and have been friends ever since.

Wheels of Tranquility has been an official student organization since Sept. 19.

When Assistant Director of Student Affairs Carter Walton approved of the club.“They have already been able to generate interest among the larger student population,” Walton said.

“As long as the desire to skate as well as leadership within the organization remains strong, so should the organization.”