Facilities

During the past decade, Dartmouth has committed more than $80 million to the construction of new athletic facilities and major renovations to existing facilities.
The Floren Varsity House, opened in November 2007, is the newest building to support Dartmouth’s intercollegiate athletes. Floren Varsity House features a 10,000-square foot strength training center, a 130-seat “smart classroom,” meeting rooms and study lounges for all varsity teams, football locker facilities, and offices for football, baseball, softball and women’s lacrosse teams.
The new varsity house joins these facilities that are new in recent years and give Dartmouth’s student-athletes resources that are equal to any in the Ivy League and beyond: Scully-Fahey Field (lacrosse); Boss Tennis Center and Gordon Pavilion; Blackman Football Practice Fields; McLane Family Skiway Lodge; Corey Ford Rugby Clubhouse, and Whitey Burnham Soccer Field.
In addition, renovations in Alumni Gymnasium include a 14,000-square foot recreational fitness center, Karl Michael Pool upgrades, seven multi-purpose fitness rooms and improved accessibility. Other renovations have been completed at Hanover Country Club and Leverone Field House along with improvements to squash courts in the Berry Center and a FieldTurf surface and new track in Memorial Field. On the horizon are new artificial surfaces for baseball, field hockey and recreational sports.

Leede Arena

The Berry Sports Center was dedicated on May 22, 1987 in honor of John W. Berry ’44 whose $5 million gift was the largest ever made to Dartmouth athletics until the recent gift of $10 million by Douglas C. Floren ’63 and his family for the new varsity house that opened in November 2007. Another gift by Mr. Berry enabled construction to begin in 1985. The basketball arena in the Berry Center is named in honor of Edward Leede ’49 and his family. Mr. Leede is among Dartmouth’s all-time leading scorers and was captain of the 1948-49 team. The Berry Center includes Leede Arena, a 2,100-seat basketball pavilion; two additional regulation basketball courts; a 4,500-square foot strength training and conditioning facility; four varsity locker rooms; squash and racquetball courts, and the athletic ticket office. At the right is the scene in sold-out Leede Arena for the North Carolina game in 1998. Another capacity crowd packed Leede in 2000 to see the Big Green host Virginia. Large crowds are the norm for Ivy League games, especially when Penn and Princeton come to town.