page_title: Ateneo de Manila University Sports facilities
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Ateneo de Manila University Sports facilities / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Ateneo de Manila University [1]
context_page_description: The Ateneo de Manila University has many sport teams and facilities for those teams.
context_section_description: The sports-loving American Jesuits who took over the administration of the Ateneo de Manila in 1912 and taught at the Ateneo in the 1900s left a legacy in sports to the school. Unlike other schools, Ateneo in the early and mid-1900s, was fortunate to have educators who were former athletes. The American Jesuits were former basketball, baseball and soccer players as well as track and field athletes. They provided the fundamentals of these sports to their students as coaches of the varsity teams. They preached to them the Greek ideal "mens sana in corpore sano" which translates to "a sound mind in a sound body."
  Since sports is an important part of the Ateneo educational system, the Jesuits give importance to the construction of sports facilities. The first building to be built when Ateneo moved its main campus to Loyola Heights from Pade Faura was the Blue Eagle gym. Since then, Ateneo with the generous financial support of wealthy alumni in some projects has spent much in the construction of numerous sports facilities. Here are the various sport facilities found in the Ateneo Loyola Heights campus:
  
  
   
   Basketball
  Blue Eagle Gym – 1949
  Moro Lorenzo Sports Center – 2001
  Loyola Schools (College) Covered Courts – 1951
  High School Covered Courts – 1956
  Grade School Covered Courts – 1995
   Football
  Moro Lorenzo Football Field – 2012
  Ed Ocampo Football Field
  High School Football Field No.1
  High School Football Field No.2
   Volleyball
  Blue Eagle Gym – 1949
  Loyola Schools (College) Covered Courts – 1951
  High School Covered Courts
   Beach Volleyball
  Loyola Schools Sand Court – 2014
   Softball
  Loyola Schools Softball Field
   Handball
  Loyola Schools Handball Court
   Track and Field
  Loyola Schools Synthetic Track Oval (Olympic-standard with 8 lanes)
  Moro Lorenzo Sports Center Indoor Track Oval – 2001
  High School Dirt Track Oval
   Chess
  Blue Eagle Gym – 1949
   
   Badminton
  Moro Lorenzo Sports Center Badminton Courts – 2001
   Lawn Tennis
  Loyola Schools Tennis Courts
   Table Tennis
  Blue Eagle Gym – 1949
  Loyola Schools P.E. Dept. Sports Complex
   Taekwondo
  Moro Lorenzo Sports Center – 2001
  Loyola Schools P.E. Dept. Sports Complex
   Judo
  Blue Eagle Gym – 1949
  Loyola Schools P.E. Dept. Sports Complex
   Fencing
  Blue Eagle Gym – 1949
   Weights/ Bodybuilding
  Blue Eagle Gym – 1949
  Moro Lorenzo Sports Center – 2001
  Loyola Schools P.E. Dept. Sports Complex
   Swimming
  Loyola Schools Swimming Pool – 2006
  Grade School Swimming Pool
  Rifle/Pistol Shooting
  Loyola Schools Shooting Range
   
  The Blue Eagle Gym
  Ateneo is the first school in the Philippines to build a large school gym. The Ateneo gym has a seating capacity of 7,500. School gyms in the 1940s were small because their primary purpose was as a practice facility for the school's varsity basketball team and a place for student convocations as a secondary usage. Fr. William F. Masterson, S.J., then the Ateneo Rector had a different concept in mind. He wanted more usage for the gym he envisioned, one that is designed to be revenue generating and home to various varsity teams. Specifically, it was to be an alternate venue to the Rizal Memorial Coliseum for the National Collegiate Athletic Association games. Thus the gym that was constructed stands 213 feet wide and 281 feet long (or 60,863 square feet) and cost Php 650,000.00 to construct. The gym is not only the home of the Blue Eagles and Lady Eagles (college varsity basketball teams) but also of the college baseball, chess, fencing, judo, table tennis and volleyball varsity teams. It is the practice facility of these varsity teams. There is a baseball batting cage, a chess room, a fencing strip and a judo training area. The basketball court is converted to a volleyball court when the volleyball varsity teams practice. The Blue Babble Battalion and band use the gym for their practice. It is also used by the University community for big gatherings. The gym houses the University Athletics Office, a sports library, a study hall, a small air-conditioned dormitory and an exhibit room for the multi-titled Ateneo Blue Eagle Coach Baby Dalupan. There is also a room for 
caption: Panoramic view of the Moro Lorenzo Football Field.
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