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Encyclopedia > Coles Sports and Recreation Center
The entrance on Mercer Street.
The entrance on Mercer Street.

The Coles Sports and Recreation Center is located at 181 Mercer Street in New York City. It is the main athletic facility at New York University (NYU). The building is named in honor of Jerome S. Coles, an alumnus and benefactor of NYU. It is largely considered the hub of recreational and athletic needs for members of the University's community. The facilities accommodate a wide range of individual and group recreational sports and fitness activities, including over 130 different courses at various skill levels serving 10,000 participants, as well as club sports and an intramural program enjoyed by approximately 3,500 students. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (3072 × 2304 pixel, file size: 1. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Athletics, also known as track and field or track and field athletics, is a collection of sport events. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university in New York City. ... A benefactor is a person or other entity providing money or other benefits to another; the person receiving them is called a beneficiary. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...


Up to 3,000 members use the facility daily, while 1,900 spectators can be seated in the fieldhouse bleachers and 230 can be seated in the natatorium bleachers. The Coles Sports Center is barrier-free and accessible to physically challenged persons.


Coles is also the home to most of New York University's NCAA Division III intercollegiate teams. Some teams that compete in the facility include: men's and women's basketball, diving, swimming, volleyball, and men's wrestling. The fencing team also use Coles facilities, but they participate in NCAA Division I. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced N-C-Double-A or N-C-Two-A ) is a voluntary association of about 1,200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... Division III (or DIII) is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. ... This article is about the sport. ... For other uses, see Dive. ... Swimmer redirects here. ... For the ball used in this sport, see Volleyball (ball). ... This article is about collegiate wrestling. ... This article is about the sport, which is distinguished from stage fencing and academic fencing (mensur). ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ...


Club sports housed at Coles Sports and Recreation Center include badminton, cheerleading, martial arts, squash, racquetball, and waterpolo. This article is about the sport. ... Youth Cheerleaders during a football halftime show. ... Hawaiian State Grappling Championships. ... Squash racquet and ball Players in a glass-backed squash court International Squash Singles Court, as specified by the World Squash Federation Squash is an indoor racquet sport that was formerly called Squash racquets, a reference to the squashable soft ball used in the game (compared with the harder ball... Racquetball racquet and ball Racquetball is a sport played with racquets and a hollow rubber ball on an indoor or outdoor court. ... Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, and wrestling. ...


Tournament hosting

The Center also has played host to the following events: NCAA Basketball National Championships, NCAA Regional Wrestling Championships, ECAC Regional Basketball Championships, Metropolitan Wrestling Championships, International Wrestling events, International Fencing events, University Athletic Association Championships and National Collegiate Tae Kwon Do Championships. In 1994-95, Coles hosted the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships and the UAA Wrestling Championship. In 1998, the UAA Women's Volleyball Round Robin took place at Coles, and the women's basketball team hosted the Sweet Sixteen and the Final Four during the NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Championships. The University Athletic Association (UAA) is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division III. Member teams are located in Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Ohio and New York. ... Taekwondo is the Korean national sport and martial art, and is also one of the worlds most commonly practiced sports. ... The term Sweet Sixteen refers to the final sixteen teams in the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament, who play in the semi-final game of each of the tournaments four regional brackets. ... Final Four is a sports term that is commonly applied to the last four teams remaining in a playoff tournament. ...


Facilities

The following facilities are open to all students:

  • A multi-purpose arena with five courts.
  • A roof with a 1/6 mile, three-lane running track plus six tennis courts.
  • A natatorium with an NCAA-regulation 25-meter swimming pool, diving tank, and saunas.
  • Five squash courts and five handball/racquetball courts.
  • Weight training facilities.
  • An aerobic fitness room.
  • Individual rooms for wrestling/judo, fencing, physical fitness and calisthenics, exercise prescription, dance, and free play activities.
  • Rock climbing wall.

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NYU > Athletics > Facilities > Coles Sports Center (867 words)
Coles Sports Center, which opened in September 1981, is the hub of recreational and athletic needs for the University`s students, faculty, staff and alumni.
The facilities accommodate a wide range of individual and group recreational sports and fitness activities, including over 130 different courses at various skill levels serving 10,000 participants, as well as club sports and an intramural program enjoyed by approximately 3,500 students.
The Coles Sports Center is barrier-free and accessible to physically challenged persons.
New York University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (7862 words)
Aside from the sports teams, fraternities, sororities, and clubs that focus on fields of study, some of the most visible on-campus organizations are those of the print media clubs, such as the Washington Square News, comedy magazine The PLAGUE, and literary journal The Minetta Review.
The Coles Sports and Recreation Center serves as the home base of several of NYU's intercollegiate athletic teams, including basketball, wrestling and volleyball.
Coles is considered the hub of recreational and athletic needs for the university's students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
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