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Current Use: Contains 7 basketball courts. Other features include a weight room, fitness room, snack bar, and meeting rooms upstairs. War Eagle welcome and some late night activities take place here.
Interesting Fact: New equipment was added in the Fall of 2005. |
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| Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum |
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History: Named after Jeff Beard, Auburn's athletic director for 22 years and John H. Eaves, a former basketball coach.
Current Use: Houses ticket booths, Department of Health and Human Performance, and weight rooms. The capicity of the coliseum is 10,500. |
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| James E. Martin Aquatics Center |
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History: The $10.5 million center was named after Auburn president James E. Martin who was a key player in getting the center.
Current Use: There are two pools - one is the new pool, the Olympic size swimming pool. The other is the old pool, or instructional pool.
Interesting Fact: the pool has a special gutter system that absorbs the waves rather then sending them back to the pool, reducing the turbulence a swimmer must face. |
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| Samford Stadium at Hitchcock Field at Plainsman Park |
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History: The stadium underwent a $4.2 million faceflit seven years ago.
Current Use: seats 4096. Houses the tigers clubouse which features a locker room, training and equipment areas, an indoor hitting tunnel, a team lounge area, coaches' offices and umpire changing rooms
Interesting Fact: Includes a green monster |
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| Pat Dye Field at Jordan-Hare Stadium |
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History: the first game played on pat dye field was on november 19, 2005 against alabama.
Current Use: houses 87,451 fans on saturday during football season.
Interesting Fact: Sixth largest on campus stadium |
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| Current Use: seats 1500 spectators. the playing surface is 120 yards. |
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History: capacity for 1000 spectators
Current Use: AU men's and women's tennis
Interesting Fact: in 1997 a new lighting system was installed which allowed AU to host the NCAA regionals and SEC tourney |
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| McWhorter Center for Woman's Athletics |
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History: opened in January 2001
Current Use: Home of AU's Gymnastics Team and Women's Softball team. the 44k square foot building contains locker rooms, team rooms, athletic training rooms, coaches' offices, and gymnastic practice facility of 14,770 sq. foot. |
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Current Use: Home of Auburn University's Women's Softball team.
Interesting Fact: the tigers played their first full season at the modern Moore field in 2003. |
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History: Named for for Roy B. Sewell, a loyal AU alumnist who comissioned the writing of the "War Eagle" song in 1955
Current Use: Residence hall that house primarily atheletes but also some non-athlete students.
Interesting Fact: It contains 72 rooms and a dining hall that serves meals three times a day. |
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History: Under the supervision of coach Pat Dye, the Athletic Complex was built to relieve crowded office space in the coliseum
Current Use: Houses team meeting rooms, training and rehabilitation areas, weight rooms, Tv equipment, film rooms, and the Jonathan Bell Lovelace Athletic Museum, which opened in 1996 |
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| Charlotte Lowder Student Athelete Development Center |
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| Current Use: Used for for the Tiger Tutor athletic program and Academic counselor offices. |
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| The Hotel at AU and Dixon Conference Center |
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History: contains 248 rooms and a 35k sq. foot conference center
Current Use: the privately operated hotel and the university operated conference center provide modern facilities for participants in conferences and other functions invovling university faculty and others. The conference center includes a banquet hall, auditorium, ballroom, and computer labs.
Interesting Fact: Parent Program activities during CWE take place here. |
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History: Known to many as the Alumni Hall
Current Use: Includes the office of Accounts payable, Controller, Budget Control, Financial Information Systems, Finanacial Reporting, Payroll and Employee Benefits and purchasing.
Interesting Fact: the original building had a swimming pool in the basement |
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History: first dormitory built on campus
Current Use: University Outreach
Interesting Fact: former house of the collge of science and mathematics |
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History: Oldest building on campus in its original location
Current Use: renovated in 1976 and is now open between 8am-4pm for public visit or worship. each religous orginization on campus has a hung a banner in the chapel.
Interesting Fact: A Civil War ghost named Sydney was said to haunt the chapel |
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History: build to provide a home for alumni activities in 1989
Current Use: a meeting place for visiting alumni as well as the SAB |
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| Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art |
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History: project began in 1948 with what became known as Auburn University's Advancing American Art Collection comprised of 117 paintings
Current Use: offers a varied and rich program of traveling exhibits in addition to the growing permanent exhibits. each of the exhibits is accompanied by educational programming that includes lectures by noted authorities, special symposia, catalogs, guided tours, and opening events. Open Tues-Sat 10-5 and Sunday 11-5
Interesting Fact: construction began in 2001 with a total budget of more than 13 million |
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