Facilities
The most notable athletic facilities are:
- Harry A. Gampel Pavilion on the Storrs campus, the regular home for both men's and women's basketball
- XL Center in Hartford, the second home for both basketball teams
- Rentschler Field in East Hartford, home to the football team
- Joseph J. Morrone Stadium on the Storrs campus, the regular home for both men's and women's soccer and lacrosse.
- Burton Family Football Complex on the Storrs campus, "serves as the on-campus home of UConn football and complements Rentschler Field in East Hartford. Opened in 2006" (www.uconnhuskies.com)
- Mark R. Shenkman Training Center on the Storrs campus, adjacent to the Burton Family Football Complex "an 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m2) training complex, featuring a 120-yard long state-of-the-art FieldTurf playing surface, an 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) strength and conditioning area, and state-of-the-art video capabilities, the indoor training center provides UConn's football team with the most technologically advanced training equipment" (www.uconnhuskies.com). Also serves as a home to UConn Club and Intramural sports.
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“Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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