Champions Center, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA.

The new Champions Center at UMass Amherst provides identical practice courts, team rooms, and administrative centers for men’s and women’s varsity basketball. The programs share a 2,800 square foot weight training center, a 1,700 square foot nutrition center, a 1,900 square foot sports med center with a hydrotherapy spa, a 1,200 square foot “legacy hall”, and a film room that seats 24. Located south of the Mullins Center arena, the building makes a direct connection to the event floor to enable the team rooms to be used during games. Built at the level of the fields, and into the grade eighteen feet below Commonwealth Avenue, the new building is the initial development in the extension of the campus framework to the west.