The Bobby Valentine Health and Recreation Center is now open to students at Sacred Heart University.
The state-of-the-art fitness facility in Fairfield, Connecticut, is named after Major League Baseball player and manager Bobby Valentine.
He came to Sacred Heart in 2013 as executive director of athletics. He said that at the time the university president gave him a blank canvas to develop a competitive sports program.
“And I was wondering if I had that canvas, if I had to provide my own watercolors, and he says we paint in oil on this campus so what you do will be here forever.”
The three-story facility features an indoor track, a bowling center, a golf simulator, a spin center, a 45-foot climbing wall, exercise and weight-training rooms and a juice bar.
Valentine calls the center the “major exclamation point” of his life.
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