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Human Performance Center

THE HUMAN PERFORMANCE CENTER
"THE CHAMBER OF HORRORS"
Home to Privateers Athletic Offices & Privateers Volleyball

Opened: 1969
Capacity: 1,760

Located on the corner of Leon. C. Simon and Elysian Fields Avenue the Human Performance Center has along and storied history with Privateers Athletics.

Originally known as the Physical Education building, the gym earned the nickname “The Chamber of Horrors” due to the close proximity and rowdiness of the fans during the early days of Privateers basketball when battles with local rivals Tulane, and Xavier would pack over 4,000 into the noisy wooden bleachers.

The HPC has been the home of Privateers basketball during two different stints, first from 1969 until the opening of Lakefront Arena in 1983, and then from 2006 to 2008 due to repairs at Lakefront Arena following Hurricane Katrina.

Those same renovations would make the HPC the home for the volleyball program as well from 2006 to 2009. Volleyball would play the 2010 season in the Lakefront Arena Auxiliary gym, before splitting the 2011 season between both Lakefront Arena floors and the HPC. The volleyball program permanently returned to the HPC before the 2012 campaign.

During the fall of 2019 a 2,600-square-foot facility was constructed adjacent to the main HPC floor. The facility functions as the central Strength and Conditioning facility for the Privateers. The weight room features new Hammer Strength Elite Racks, Plates, Dumbbells and Bars and enhancing the existing individual weight machines.  Regupol Aktiv rubber flooring with 10 inlaid lifting platforms was also added for a free flowing, trip free workout environment.

Renovations continued into the summer with the addition of a Golf Indoor Practice Facility. The 800-square-foot space features a custom, one of a kind, putting green with undulations and 8 target cups. The room is also equipped with a 50 square foot chipping area that has varying levels of rough to provide realistic feedback for our golf student-athletes. The facility also offers a GC Quad launch monitor and simulator from Foresight Sports. The only launch monitor on the market to use Quadrascopic imaging, the GC Quad delivers the most accurate and detailed image of ball and club head performance in the industry. This technology allows players to analyze and improve full swing techniques as well as putting strokes.

The HPC seats 1,760 fans and can accommodate three regulation volleyball courts, or one regulation basketball court. Along with the volleyball offices and locker rooms. Besides being the home of volleyball, and former home of basketball the building also houses the main offices for the Athletic department which were renovated in 2018.