Goodwin Sports Centre
Goodwin Sports Centre's main building.
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| Location | Broomhill, Sheffield |
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| Coordinates | 53°22′50″N 1°29′45″W / 53.380556°N 1.495833°W |
| Owner | University of Sheffield |
| Operator | Sport Sheffield |
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| Opened | 1960 |
| Expanded | 1963 (pool & gym), renovated 2001. |
Goodwin Sports Centre is a sporting facility and gym in the Crookesmoor area of the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its facilities include a 33 m swimming pool, bouldering wall, tennis court, cricket nets, gymnasium (known as S10health), sports hall and several synthetic pitches. It is owned by the University of Sheffield.
The Goodwin Sports Centre consists of a range of indoor facilities in two buildings - one housing a swimming pool, gym and bouldering wall, the other housing an indoor sports hall and other facilities. The complex also has one full size astroturf hockey pitch on the other side of Northumberland Road and a football synthetic pitch.
The facilities are used by members of the general public as well as the university community. University teams compete both at an internal level and within the British Universities Sports Association's leagues. Also, a number of non-university teams and clubs play or train at Goodwin, including Sheffield University Bankers Hockey Club.
The facilities were largely constructed in the 1960s, funded by the head of the Neepsend Tool and Steel Corporation, Sir Stuart Goodwin. He approached the university with £30,000 of financial support towards building a sports hall after discovering that the existing gymnasium on the Western Bank part of the campus would be demolished. They were opened in October 1960. After funding the indoor sports hall, Goodwin then discovered that there was no swimming facility at the university (plans had been abandoned in 1939) and issued a further £60,000 from himself and his wife to fund the construction. At the opening ceremony for the pool, he surprised people further by pledging to fund squash courts and indoor cricket wickets. The swimming pool and second gymnasium opened in 1963.
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