Men's BasketBall - Hendrix College

athletic facilities
hendrix athletic facilities ranked 13th in nation
Hendrix College has always been considered one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, however, according to the Princeton Review the Warriors’ threeyear-old
athletic facilities ranks among the best in the nation.
The Princeton Review recently praised Hendrix College for its new Wellness and Athletic Center, Bob Courtway Pool and four outdoor playing fields by ranking it 13th in the
country among all 2,500 four-year colleges. That includes all NCAA Division I, II and III schools.
Hendrix joined Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.) and Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vt.) as the only other NCAA Division III schools to make the Top 20 list. Hendrix was
also the only Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) school on the list.
The Warriors finished construction of their new athletic facilities in August of 2007. The new buildings and playing fields replaced the 46-year-old Grove Gymnasium. Hendrix
has also recently finished construction of the new Student Life and Technology Center, which has been erected on the west side of Harkrider where Grove Gymnasium formerly
sat.
“Our new athletic facilities have helped us, along with the great work of our coaching
staff, to increase the number of student-athletes participating in our 19 sports from
about 180 a few years ago to over 350 this year,” said Athletics Director Danny Powell.
The SCAC has given Hendrix the opportunity to show off its new state-of-the-art facilities
by appointing the school as host of the 2008 and 2009 SCAC Men’s and Women’s
Basketball Championships, 2009 SCAC Field Hockey Championships, 2010 SCAC Softball
Championships and 2010 SCAC Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
(Front view of the Wellness and Athletic Center)
The SCAC has chosen Hendrix as a host school for its conference championships because
of the central location in the conference, ability to run on-campus tournaments and the
abundant hotels and restaurants Conway has to offer.
One of the greatest aspects of Hendrix Athletics is the affordable admission to its 19 sporting event’s home games throughout the year, including SCAC Championships. Fans can
come out and enjoy all the fun and excitement of college athletics for the best price of all, FREE.
In its profile on Hendrix (pages 280-281), The Princeton Review praises the college for its involved student body and accepting atmosphere. Hendrix students are quoted extensively
throughout the review, discussing everything from the “phenomenal [financial] aid that would be ridiculous to turn down” to the “awesome theme parties”. A political
science major noted that “one of Hendrix’s selling points is the personal relationships that students build with their professors,” while another student credited professors for
being “courageously friendly.”
The Princeton Review’s 62 ranking lists in The Best 371 Colleges are entirely based on
its survey of 122,000 students (about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges
in the book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on several
topics and report on their campus experiences. Topics range from student assessments
of their professors, administrators, financial aid, and campus food.
Other ranking lists are based on student reports about their student body’s political
leanings, race/class relations, gay community acceptance, and other aspects of campus
life. A college’s appearance on a ranking list is entirely the result of a high consensus
among its surveyed students about a topic compared with that of students at other
schools answering the same survey question(s) on the ranking list topic.
(Aerial view of the top-ranked Warrior facilities)
43 2010-11 Hendrix Men’s Basketball Media Guide