page_title: Benedictine University
section_title: Athletics
hierarchical_section_title: Benedictine University / Athletics
caption_attribution_description: English: Dan and Ada Rice Athletic Center is the main indoor athletic facility on the Benedictine campus in Lisle, Illinois. It serves as the home venue for basketball and volleyball and also holds the offices for the athletic department. The facility also includes the student fitness center.
context_page_description: Benedictine University is a private Roman Catholic university in Lisle, Illinois. It was founded in 1887 as St. Procopius College by the Benedictine monks of St. Procopius Abbey in the Pilsen community on the West Side of Chicago. The institution has retained a close relationship with the Benedictine Order, which bears the name of St. Benedict, the acknowledged father of western monasticism.
  The university resides within the Chicago metropolitan area, and is located near two national research facilities, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The university's location in the East-West Tollway corridor provides various internship and employment opportunities for students. It has a branch campus, Benedictine University, in Mesa, Arizona.
context_section_description: The Eagles, at the Lisle campus, compete in 19 intercollegiate athletic programs in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) at the NCAA Division III level.
  The Redhawks, at Benedictine University at Mesa, compete as members of the California Pacific Conference (CAL PAC) in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). The men's and women's golf, cross country, volleyball and tennis teams played their first season at the club level in 2014-15.
  Both campuses also offer intramurals, group fitness classes and club sports. Benedictine students play men's tennis, men's lacrosse, and ping pong as club sports.
caption: Dan and Ada Rice Center in Lisle
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