Irving Gymnasium
In 2008, Irving Gymnasium closed to undergo renovations for the new Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The Student Recreation and Wellness Center opened in 2010 and offers 5 basketball courts, an indoor turf building for indoor football and soccer, a rock climbing wall, an expanded weight lifting and cardio equipment space, an 1/8 suspended walking/jogging track, a Quiznos and space devoted to yoga and martial arts.
Notable appearances
Presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy spoke in Irving Gymnasium on April 4, 1968, to a crowd of 12,000 people, almost three times the seating capacity. The university had only 7,000 seats to offer, which left 5,000 students to stand during Kennedy's half-hour speech. A little over an hour after his speech, on the way to another campaign stop in Indianapolis, Kennedy learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
President Barack Obama made a stop in Irving Gymnasium on April 12, 2008, on his campaign trail, 40 years and one week after Kennedy's 1968 speech there.
References
- ^ Student Recreation and Wellness Facility(Ball State University Website) Archived 2010-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved December 15, 2008.
- ^ "Ball State University Student Recreation and Wellness Center". Athletic Business. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
- ^ "Robert Kennedy remembered?". Ball State Daily. April 4, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
- ^ Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama plans weekend campaign stop on campus (Ball State University Website) Archived 2011-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved December 15, 2008.
External links
- Facility information Archived 2009-08-06 at the Wayback Machine