Directions to the Football Locker Room Facility
145 Spring Rd
Blacksburg, VA 24061
From the north or east, take Interstate 81 south to exit 118B, following US 460 west to Blacksburg.
From the south, take Interstate 81 north to exit 118B, following US 460 west to Blacksburg.
From West Virginia, take Interstate 77 south (West Virginia Turnpike) to exit 9. Exit and turn left onto 460 east. Follow 460 east to Blacksburg.
Once in Blacksburg, use the 460 bypass around the downtown
area. Follow 460 to the
signal at Southgate Drive (Va. 314). Turn right onto campus.
Take the second left onto Spring Road. Turn right on the service road between Lane Stadium and the Merryman Center. The Football Locker Room Facility will be at the end of the road past the Football Practice Field.
In November of 2010, the Virginia Tech football team moved into its new locker room - a locker room that ranks as one of the best in the nation.
The $18 million building is nearly 42,000 square feet. The locker room, which is on the first floor, is 14,800 square feet and has the biggest lockers in the nation. The lockers, which are 42 inches and made of wood, include a ventilation system to keep football pads and helmets dry as well as individual safes for players to store valuables. Each locker also has electrical outlets for cell phone chargers, hair dryers, etc.
At the entrance to each small hallway of lockers are words that define the Virginia Tech football program. These words include family, loyalty, trust, consistency, dependable, etc.
The locker room also includes showers, a cold tub, a hot tub, a steam room and a sauna that will be used extensively to help players recover from injuries and everyday aches and pains. The coaches also have their own locker room, which will be adjacent to the large room with the hot and cold tubs, and the steam room and sauna.
The locker room has a definite Virginia Tech feel to it. It features a time clock and a lunch pail as soon as a player walks through the main entrance, signifying hard work, and in the hallway outside the locker, replicas of bowl rings are on the wall. Tech has been to 24 bowl games in its history.
The second floor of the building is 12,900 feet and includes a players' lounge and a study lounge. The lounge area has multiple 65-inch high definition televisions, pool tables and an area for players to sit and re-hydrate after practice. The study lounge features 12 study stations with a computer at each station.
Adjacent to the lounge area is a 2,900 square-foot balcony that overlooks the practice field. The grills on the balcony allow for team cookouts, while also providing an area for recruits to gather on game day.
The building contains a third floor, but that floor was constructed for the wrestling program, which uses it as a wrestling room for practices. The floor also holds the wrestling team's locker room.
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