Rose/Ryan Center
Rose/Ryan Center
QUICK FACTS
Official Name: Rose Center
Location: Central Michigan University Campus
Address: 300 E Broomfield Street, Mount Pleasant, MI, 48858
Date Opened: Summer, 1973
Original Cost: $5.5 million
THE FACILITIES
The Rose/Ryan Center houses the athletic department and coaching offices, physical education offices and classrooms, locker room and training facilities for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, along with practice facilities, gymnasium and student activity space. Originally proposed as a $5.5 million Physical Education building in October 1969, the building opened in the summer of 1973
The facility, which would eventually become the Rose and Ryan Center, was an impressive addition to campus in 1973. The complex was twice the size of Finch Fieldhouse, which served as the primary location of the school's athletic pursuits up to that point. It had separate areas for wrestling, handball, dance, gymnastics, and physical conditioning. There was a specially equipped facility for students with disabilities. There was also a 6,000-seat basketball arena that could be converted to classroom space, a six-lane competitive pool and separate diving pool, and a turf room that featured a Tartan turf surface similar to that installedat Spartan Stadium. Outside the complex also included eight tennis courts and four softball/soccer fields.
In January 1973, it was announced that the athletic complex building would be named the Daniel P. Rose Center after the long-time athletic director and all-time winningest basketball coach in CMU history. The academic wing would be named Grace E. Ryan Hall, after the health and physical education instructor who served for 35 years from 1923-58. The Rose Center remained the hub of both intramural and recreational athletic activity throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
With the continued growth of the student body and increasing demands from students for expansion, Trustees approved financing for an expansion to the existing Rose Center in 1987. Dubbed Physical Education and Recreation Phase II, the plans called for a $14.9 million, 179,000-square foot addition to the Rose Center. The expansion featured six racquetball courts, a three-lane jogging track, a 12-lane bowling alley, six multi-purpose gymnasiums, a pool, weight room facilities, and two auxiliary gymnasiums.
Rose, who spent 35 years in service to Central Michigan University, arrived at the Mount Pleasant campus in 1937 as an assistant football coach and head baseball and basketball coach. His seven CMU baseball teams went 61-45. His 14 basketball teams won 186 and lost 64. The 1948-49 basketball team was 15-1 and ranked No. 1 in the country. Rose became Central Michigan's Athletics Director in 1942 and remained in that capacity until 1972. His .676 winning percentage in basketball is tops in CMU history. A product of Rogers City High, Rose was an outstanding athlete at the University of Michigan in the late 1920s.
AMENITIES
Official Name: Rose Center
Location: Central Michigan University Campus
Address: 300 E Broomfield Street, Mount Pleasant, MI, 48858
Date Opened: Summer, 1973
Original Cost: $5.5 million
THE FACILITIES
The Rose/Ryan Center houses the athletic department and coaching offices, physical education offices and classrooms, locker room and training facilities for the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, along with practice facilities, gymnasium and student activity space. Originally proposed as a $5.5 million Physical Education building in October 1969, the building opened in the summer of 1973
The facility, which would eventually become the Rose and Ryan Center, was an impressive addition to campus in 1973. The complex was twice the size of Finch Fieldhouse, which served as the primary location of the school's athletic pursuits up to that point. It had separate areas for wrestling, handball, dance, gymnastics, and physical conditioning. There was a specially equipped facility for students with disabilities. There was also a 6,000-seat basketball arena that could be converted to classroom space, a six-lane competitive pool and separate diving pool, and a turf room that featured a Tartan turf surface similar to that installedat Spartan Stadium. Outside the complex also included eight tennis courts and four softball/soccer fields.
In January 1973, it was announced that the athletic complex building would be named the Daniel P. Rose Center after the long-time athletic director and all-time winningest basketball coach in CMU history. The academic wing would be named Grace E. Ryan Hall, after the health and physical education instructor who served for 35 years from 1923-58. The Rose Center remained the hub of both intramural and recreational athletic activity throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
With the continued growth of the student body and increasing demands from students for expansion, Trustees approved financing for an expansion to the existing Rose Center in 1987. Dubbed Physical Education and Recreation Phase II, the plans called for a $14.9 million, 179,000-square foot addition to the Rose Center. The expansion featured six racquetball courts, a three-lane jogging track, a 12-lane bowling alley, six multi-purpose gymnasiums, a pool, weight room facilities, and two auxiliary gymnasiums.
Rose, who spent 35 years in service to Central Michigan University, arrived at the Mount Pleasant campus in 1937 as an assistant football coach and head baseball and basketball coach. His seven CMU baseball teams went 61-45. His 14 basketball teams won 186 and lost 64. The 1948-49 basketball team was 15-1 and ranked No. 1 in the country. Rose became Central Michigan's Athletics Director in 1942 and remained in that capacity until 1972. His .676 winning percentage in basketball is tops in CMU history. A product of Rogers City High, Rose was an outstanding athlete at the University of Michigan in the late 1920s.
AMENITIES
- Home of the Central Michigan University Athletics Administration offices
- Houses offices for men's and women's basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, soccer, field hockey, women's golf, men's golf, softball, lacrosse
- Gymnastics Practice Facility
- Wrestling Practice Facility
- Rose athletic training center
- Gymnastics locker room
- Wrestling locker room
- Equipment Room
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