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Weiss Weight RoomPenn has an outstanding strength and conditioningprogram, which includes two full-time coaches andone part-time strength coach. Strength and conditioningprograms are administered and monitoredon a team and individualized basis.The 5,000 square-foot George A. Weiss WeightRoom is equipped with over nine tons of freeweights and includes 15 Olympic lifting platforms, 14freestanding rack areas and 11 flat benches. Sorinex,Pyramid, Nautilus, Eleiko, Ivanko, Paramount, KingFitness and York supply the weightlifting equipment.Aerobic equipment includes Tectrix and Star Trecstair climbers and stationary bikes and Pre Cor ellipticalcross-trainers.Both floors of the complex feature Tufflex (rubber)flooring and the rooms are individually temperaturecontrolled. In addition, windowed walls onboth levels allow for natural sunlight.The complex, which is conveniently locatednear all of Penn's practice fields, is open up to 12hours per day to provide student-athletes everyopportunity for a flexible workout schedule.The Hollenback weight room, which is locatednext to the Annex and Rhodes Field is a 2,500square-foot facility that was completed in 1997. Thefacility is equipped with free weights and selectorizedweight machines. Free weights and weight machinesfrom Sorinex, Paramount, Nautilus, HammerStrength, Streamline and York Barbell equip theroom. As in the Weiss facility the floor featuresTufflex flooring.Sports Medicine CenterThe University of Pennsylvania Sports MedicineCenter provides state-of-the-art medical care to thestudent-athlete and the community. The center,which is located on the ground floor of WeightmanHall, approaches sports medicine with a multidisciplinaryapproach, providing services in orthopaedicsurgery, family practice, podiatry, physiatry, radiologyand physical therapy. The University ofPennsylvania Sports Medicine Center, which wasestablished in 1978, is one of the oldest sports medicinecenters in the nation and recently underwent amajor renovation in 2003.David Pottruck Heathand Fitness CenterThe David Pottruck Health and Fitness Center, whichopened its doors on Sept. 9, 2002, is an additional65,000 square feet of dedicated recreational spacecombined with the existing 50,000 square feet ofGimbel Gymnasium which created a new multi-purposeactivity area designed for campus sport totaling115,000 square feet. The center is a state-of-the-artrecreation facility located at 37th and Walnut Streets,in the heart of campus, which services the entire Penncommunity. The Pottruck Center includes a climbingwall, multipurpose rooms for dance, martial arts andaerobic activities, a golf simulator, a swimming pool,three basketball courts, a spinning room and a ProShop and Jammin' Juice bar.Franklin FieldThe University of Pennsylvania's historic stadium,Franklin Field, has hosted the best in collegiate andprofessional competition for most of the century.Originally opened in 1895 (at a cost of $100,000.00)for the first running of the Penn Relays, the stadiumwas rebuilt 72 years ago. The Field, deemed by theNCAA as the oldest stadium still operating for footballgames, has been the site of the nation's first scoreboard(1895), the nation's first two-tiered stadium(1922), the first football radio broadcast (WIP, 1922),the first football telecast (PhilCo, 1939) and VinceLombardi's only NFL playoff loss (1960).Pictured left - (top) Weiss Weight Room.(bottom) The David Pottruck Health and FitnessCenter.Franklin Field - Home of Penn Men’s Track & Field