Hokie Club
The Virginia Tech wrestling team holds its matches at Cassell Coliseum, but the team practices in its new state-of-the-art training room on the third floor of the football locker room facility, which sits adjacent to Cassell Coliseum.
This floor, complete with a nice, detailed graphics package on the walls and multiple windows to create an open feel, is 11,384 square feet, with more than 6,000 of that being devoted to mat space. Next to the mat is a cardiovascular training area, with multiple elliptical machines, treadmills and exercise bikes. This area also includes limited weights for lifting.
Also next to the mat is a sports medicine area for team trainers to treat injured athletes. The sports medicine area also includes a table for taping before practice.
The third floor includes the wrestling team's locker room, a coaches’ locker room, and four coaches’ offices. Both sets of locker rooms include nice wooden lockers and flat-screen televisions, and the players’ locker room features a sauna.
The three-floor facility was opened in November of 2010. The $18 million building is nearly 42,000 square feet, with the first floor serving as the home for the Tech football team's locker room and the second floor being the home to the football team’s lounge.
DIRECTIONS | Wresting Locker Room/Practice Facility
510 Callagan-Sheridan Way
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 bypass to Exit 6 Southgate Drive (Va. 314). Take the second exit at the first roundabout to stay on Southgate Drive. At the second roundabout, take the first exit to stay on Southgate Drive. At the traffic signal, turn left onto Beamer Way. Turn right on Callagan-Sheridan Way between Lane Stadium and the Merryman Center. The Practice Facility will be at the end of the road past the Indoor Practice Facility.