The 5,000-seat Towson Center Arena was the home of men’s and women’s basketball, gymnastics and volleyball teams for more than three decades. The Towson Center Arena now serves as a practice facility for several Tiger athletic teams.
A portable wooden floor was added along with several renovated locker rooms, an expanded varsity weight room and upgraded signage and decorated lobby and balcony areas.
Inside the arena, which has 165,000 square feet of floor space, there are classrooms, locker rooms, a research lab, a curriculum center, a fitness center, a varsity weight room, a sports medicine room, a gymnastics room, six racquetball courts, six squash courts, hitting cages for baseball and softball, a golf simulator and putting green, a field hockey training room plus an indoor facility for track & field. The facility houses nearly 75 Towson faculty and staff members.
The gymnastics practice facility is located in the Towson Center, just off the main arena floor. Tiger gymnasts train in the 8,500 square-foot room, which features a combination of AAI Elite equipment, Tiffin matting along with resi and loose foam pits at each apparatus area.
Over the years the Towson Center has played host to numerous events such as concerts, receptions, high school commencements, the Central Maryland Job Fair, the Charm City Classic high school basketball tournament, the Battle of Baltimore college basketball tournament and several NCAA Division II regional tournaments.
Strength Training
The Varsity Athletic Weight Room was constructed in 1999 due to the generous contributions of several individuals including NFL and TU Alumni Dave Meggett, Sean Landeta and Tony Vinson.
The weight room displays some of the finest equipment in today's market including Olympic lifting platforms, Samson squat racks, an array of Cybex strength training machines, as well as dumbbell racks up to 150 lbs.
The weight room also includes a full line of cardio equipment, along with medicine balls and physio balls.
