The Alumni Healthful Living Center is a sports complex on the campus of Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern...

. It is the home to the Western New England University men's and women's basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 teams, women's swimming

Swimming (sport)

Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...

 team, wrestling

Collegiate wrestling

Collegiate wrestling, sometimes known in the United States as Folkstyle wrestling, is a style of amateur wrestling practised at the collegiate and university level in the United States. Collegiate wrestling emerged from the folk wrestling styles practised in the early history of the United States...

 team, and women's volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 team.

The Alumni Healthful Living Center is a 123000 square feet (11,427.1 m²) fitness and recreational facility. The facility houses a 2,000-seat field house, with floors marked for basketball and volleyball; an eight-lane, competition-quality indoor pool; racquetball

Racquetball

For other sports often called "paddleball", see Paddleball .Racquetball is a racquet sport played with a hollow rubber ball in an indoor or outdoor court...

 and squash

Squash (sport)

Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...

 courts; an indoor track; a fitness center with state-of-the-art workout equipment; and a large free weight facility. The AHLC opened in 1993. Its original name was Healthful Living Center. Alumni was added in 1994 in recognition of the extensive alumni contribution to the capital campaign that funded the building.

Western New England University's Downes Athletic Hall of Fame, and the Athletic Department are located in the building.

The fieldhouse is known as "The Cave" for the boisterous student section.http://www1.wne.edu/assets/cfm/dci_popup.cfm?id=9812&site=undefined&type=news

Memorable moments

• October 1, 1999 - First class inducted into Downes Athletic Hall of Fame.http://www1.wne.edu/athletics/index.cfm?selection=doc.3494#1999
• March 1, 2006 - Alumni Healthful Living Center hosts a quarterfinal game of the ECAC
  Eastern College Athletic Conference
  The Eastern College Athletic Conference is a college athletic conference comprising schools that compete in 21 sports . It has 317 member institutions in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, ranging in location from Maine to North Carolina and west to Illinois...
  
   Division III New England Women's Basketball Tournament.http://wnegoldenbears.com/news/2006/3/1/2624617219.aspx?path=wbball
• December 9, 2006 - Western New England University unveiled a new banner displaying the names of the players in the school’s 1,000-point club between games of its basketball doubleheader.
• February 22, 2007 - Final varsity athletic event held in the facility under the auspices of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference
  Great Northeast Athletic Conference
  The Great Northeast Athletic Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division III. Member institutions are located in the northeastern United States in the States of Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.-Current...
  
   (GNAC).http://wnegoldenbears.com/news/2007/2/22/3902922869.aspx?path=mbball
• March 4, 2007 - Western New England University's Men's Basketball wins its first ECAC Division III New England Championships.http://wnegoldenbears.com/news/2007/3/5/2490082383.aspx?path=mbball
• September 27, 2007 - Western New England University's Women's Volleyball defeats Anna Maria College, 3-0, in Western New England University's first varsity athletic contest in the Alumni Healthful Living Center under the auspices of the Commonwealth Coast Conference
  Commonwealth Coast Conference
  The Commonwealth Coast Conference is an intercollegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA’s Division III. Member institutions are located in New England in the States of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island....
  
  (TCCC).http://wnegoldenbears.com/news/2007/9/27/426571369.aspx?path=wvball
• June 15, 2011 - New floor installed at Alumni Healthful Living Center. http://wnegoldenbears.com/news/2011/6/15/GEN_0615111809.aspx?path=general