With groundbreaking in early 1999 and scheduled completion by the summer of 2000, the University of Rochester's renovated athletic center will allow students to stretch themselves, develop new talents, and complement their classroom achievements - a balance of mind and body. The center will be named for Robert B. Goergen '60, who has served as an adviser, trustee, and friend to the University over many decades. The sports and recreation renovations will bring striking improvements to the campus. Indeed, the project will make Rochester's athletic facilities among the best at NCAA Division III schools around the country.
Some universities have outstanding fitness centers.
Others have well-appointed aquatic centers, or basketball arenas. The new athletic center will preserve the best of the complex's architectural nuances, especially external features that generations of alumni remember fondly, while modernizing and improving the value of the facilities to all members of the campus community. .