Mary Roby Gymnastics Training Center (Gymnastics)

The Gymnastics Training Facility, opened in 1994, and expanded in 2008, is one of the nation's premiere training centers, boasting the following features:

• A large tumbling/vaulting pit with the pit area located at the end of the floor exercise diagonal.
• Stratum/Palmer floor exercise system with adjacent 40-foot rod tumbling strip.
• Three uneven bar stations: one regular set with official mats, one set over a resi-pit and a single rail over a loose foam pit (with over-head spotting belts).
• Six balance beams, including a high beam over a raised platform for working difficult skills and another for working various dismounts located next to the pit.
• A variety of springboards, safety mats and a reflex vaulting horse.
• Forty-foot Tumbl-Trak (trampoline tumbling apparatus).
• In-floor trampoline with Aussie string bed.
• All gymnastics apparatus are manufactured by American Athletic Inc., which produces the same equipment used at the NCAA Championships.
• Fully carpeted gym floor area.
• Biomechanic analysis equipment in the workout facility.

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