Cole

Field House

It has hosted Elvis Presley, President Kennedy, a groundbreaking ping-pong match and
basketball games that made history.

GW: I remember walking out onto the court and if it was a big game, you could feel the noise.
The noise would go right through you as you came out of the tunnel.

GW: I really believe this place, the students, the fans, helped us win a lot of games during my
time I coached here. It was that type of place.

TM: My most memorable moment was my senior year. We had just finished the regular
season. We had beaten Virginia in the last game of the season and then the fans came running
down on the floor and picked myself and Len Elmore up and paraded us around the floor and
we cut down the nets. It was a very magical moment.

But the William P. Cole Jr. Student Activities Building, better known as Cole Field House, doesnt
house just Marylands memories. Today, the building holds the universitys ambitions.

The new Cole Field House will bring together athletics, collaborative research, and innovative
academics. First, the facility will house the Terrapin Performance Center.

KA: This project allows us to remain competitive and that it is really going to help us from a
recruiting standpoint. From building or bringing in these great student athletes here and
making them stronger and making them faster. Most projects that you see of this magnitude,
its new construction. We are going to be able to take that piece of history, give it a new face,
and have it live forever.

The facility will also house the Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Charged with
exposing every Maryland student with courses in innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.

DC: Traditionally the University of Maryland has had a 25-year rich history in innovation and
entrepreneurship.What we really lacked to date is a central resource and a central location
that engages all students of all majors from all schools and colleges. Cole is going to play a
really important role in preparing our students to have an impact on the world when they
graduate.

The third element of the new vision for Cole Field House is the Center for Sports Medicine,
Health and Human Performance. A first-of-its kind facility, the Center will bring together the
faculty from the University of Maryland, Baltimores School of Medicine with the faculty from
the A. James Clark School of Engineering, School of Public Health, and others in College Park.

TM: The word is collaboration. This will be the signature program, the signature project for
them working together. It is a tremendous example of how cross disciplinary cooperation can
occur and I think this facility will really set an example for other universities across the
country.

The collaborative research planned for the Center is wide-ranging, including the study of
nutrition, muscle physiology, biomechanics, occupational health, robotics, concussion and
neuroscience.

AP: Its very important for us to be able to interact with the scientists in the various
disciplines. As surgeons and doctors who take care of athletes, we're obviously clinically
applying what they're learning and what they're studying. For us to bring the relevance of the
patients to them and for them to bring the basic science discipline to us allows the two of us to
work together in a way that develops the best possible science.

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BH: When you start to bring together the entrepreneurial mindset, the engineering and
physical sciences with the medicine, with kinesiology, public health, and others. I think thats
what the advantage of the center is that team science approach. We could think of it as a new
model for the 21st century.

A world-class athletic performance center. A home for university-wide innovation and
entrepreneurship. A cutting edge collaborative research facility that brings together two
powerhouse higher education institutions. That is the vision for the new Cole Field House.

TM: To repurpose this building and put it back into a facility for the 21st century. I think is an
exceptional opportunity for the university.

GW: We have to maintain this place, make it better, and make it a central part of the
university What it will be, will be special.

KP: Its an incredible exciting day at Maryland. There is a new vision here. We should be
thinking of ourselves as the number one university in the world. And that is exactly the goal we
should have. There are nuisances, there are differences. Schools have things that make them
unique. We are going to find what makes us unique, we are going to become famous for it, we
are going to celebrate it, and we are going to make University of Maryland the envy of the
world.

TEXT: NEW COLE FIELD HOUSE, WHERE TRADITION MEETS INNOVATION