Built: 1969
Renovations: 2013 
Capacity: 1,760
Sports Hosted: Basketball: 1969-1983, 2006-2008, Volleyball, 2006-2009. 2012-Current. 
Other Names: "Chamber of Horrors," HPC, Physical Education Building, 

Located on the corner of Leon. C. Simon and Elysian Fields Avenue the Human Performance Center has a long 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 noisey 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.

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, the HPC also features a dance studio and gymnastics room. Besides being the home of volleyball, and basketball in the past the HPC also housed the Privateers Athletics department, and is currently the home of New Orleans’ only professional roller derby team, the Big Easy Rollergirls.