Daniel L. Ritchie Center
The Daniel L. Ritchie Center is the home of athletics for the University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, United States. There are 17 athletic programs for the Denver Pioneers which run out of the Ritchie Center. The 440,000 square feet (41,000 m2) building cost $84 million to construct. Each of the 17 athletic programs have offices located on the fourth floor, along with the Gottesfeld room, which hosts a great deal of dinners and meetings. In addition, the third floor has offices for athletic advisors and other faculty members.
Daniel L. Ritchie served as the 16th chancellor of the University of Denver from 1989 to 2005. He was then the Chairman of the Board of the University of Denver from 2005 to 2007. Ritchie donated $15 million to the University of Denver in 1994, and has since given the remainder of his ranch to the University. The proceeds from the ranch land have provided over $50 million for various projects at the University. Ritchie now serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Denver Center of Performing Arts, among other roles in various foundations and associations.
The Ritchie Center has two new features that have further improved it. Currently it has a new weight room located under the new soccer stadium. In addition to weight-training facilities, the new weight room has a 65-yard turf area in the middle to run on. The weight room is 10,000 square feet (930 m2) and is located on the bottom level of the Ritchie Center under the new soccer stadium, CIBER field. The new soccer stadium allows games to be viewed much more easily. It holds up to 2,000 people and is a major upgrade to what the Pioneers had before it was created.
The Coors Fitness Center includes:
More than 345,000 people visited the Coors Fitness Center in the 2005–2006 academic year. The Coors Fitness Center opened in 1999 and offers membership to Denver-area residents along with its undergraduate and graduate students. The Coors Fitness Center offers various types of cardio and weight lifting options and the option of working with Degreed and Nationally Certified Personal Trainers and/or a Life Style Coach. The Ritchie Center offers several different membership types such as DU Alumni Memberships, DU Young Alumni Memberships, Public Memberships, DU Faculty and Staff Memberships, and Part-Time DU Student Memberships. The Coors Fitness Center hires many full and part-time students as employees, providing job opportunity and experience for many DU students.
The Coors Fitness Center offers a variety of luxuries in the Gold Club Members locker rooms. The Coors Center's general locker rooms each have approximately 400 half-size metal lockers. The Gold Club, which costs $30 a month, and lockers in the general locker rooms for a fee, in this case $15 a month.
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