VIRGINIA TECH Golf Guide | 2018 Edition

Nestled in the rolling mountains of Southwest Virginia, the campus of Virginia Tech has that rare quality—a major, thriving modern institute of higher learning, living in harmony with its beautiful surroundings. The keystones of the Hokies’ athletic complex are Lane Stadium and Cassell Coliseum. The ever-expanding 66,233-seat Lane Stadium/Worsham Field is the home of Tech’s nationally ranked football team that has appeared in 25 consecutive bowl games and played in the 2000 Nokia Sugar Bowl for the national championship. The football team utilizes a state-of-the-art locker room, which is adjacent to Lane Stadium and opens to the team’s practice fields and new indoor practice facility. Cassell Coliseum houses a 9,275-seat arena as well as athletic offices, locker rooms and training facilities. The Hahn Hurst Basketball Practice Center to the east of Cassell affords benefits not only to the basketball team, but all student-athletes. Tech golfers now have access to the newly completed Willis and Mary Blackwood Indoor Golf Facility, located on the first floor of the Jamerson Athletic Center adjacent to Cassell Coliseum. The area houses two simulators, a putting and chipping green, team locker rooms, staff offices and a conference room. The student-athletes also have access to the 7,000 square foot W.A. and Mae Street Olympic Sports Athletic Performance Center. Here athletes train with free weights under the supervision and instruction of Senior Director for Olympic Sports Strength and Conditioning, Terry Mitchell. Other facilities include Rector Field House, site of an indoor Astroturf football field and Mondo track; English Field, the home of the baseball team; the Tech Softball Park; the Johnson-Miller Track Complex; the Soccer Stadium and Thompson Field, home of the men’s and women’s soccer teams; lacrosse practice fields; the Christiansburg Aquatic Center, home of the men’s and women’s swimming teams; the Virginia Tech Golf Course and the Pete Dye River Course of Virginia Tech, site of the Virginia Tech Golf Team Complex. The Merryman Center is a two-story building on the west side of the Jamerson Athletic Center in the heart of the athletic complex. It is a 40,000-square foot all-purpose facility. The second floor houses an entranceway to the athletic complex, a classroom area and the 130-seat McConnell auditorium. The first floor includes a conditioning and weightlifting complex, a multipurpose gymnasium and an expanded area for sports medicine and training. Nearby Cochrane Hall houses many of Tech’s student-athletes. West End Market is a dining facility located in Cochrane and in 2009 was named the OUTSTANDING UNIVERSITY HAS ONE OF THE NATION’S BEST ATHLETICS COMPLEXES Lane Stadium, home of the Hokies’ nationally ranked football program, seats 65,632 fans and is known as one of the top venues in collegiate sports. 30