Training Facilities

[Weatherup Center and Athletes Performance credit: ASU website; facilities]

North ASU Campus is filled with sport complexes and training facilities for various sports Sun Devil athletes participate in. The Weatherup Center, Kajikawa football practice fields,  gymnastics and wrestling training facilities and athletes performance located on the east side of Rural road give student athletes specifically designed spaces for their sport. Each designed with the focus of safety, convenience, and with the athlete in mind so that every day or every time they are training all they need to focus on is the task at hand. With team and individuals goals at their focus, in these spaces, student-athletes leave the academics at the door and give all they have mentally and physically to prepare for their season, game, race, and competition whatever it may be. This is a place where academics takes a back seat, and strictly athletics are the focus. In order to successfully do so, student-athletes must make sure that whatever they had to accomplish academically has been completed beforehand so that their focus does not waver. What makes student-athletes at ASU great is the exceptional mental focus they have invested in the tasks at hand. As important the mental aspect is for sports, it is a very difficult thing to teach and master (Kristen Reincke, 2012). Once they enter the facility everything becomes about taking steps toward achieving success. Weatherup designed with both men’s and women’s gyms, locker and media rooms is used for all-year round training for the collegiate teams as well as summer camps and other athletic department events. Both gymnastics and wrestling training facilities are state-of-the-art in continued pursuit of excellence of both teams. Although there are multiple efficiently designed training facilities on ASU’s campus, they all serve the same purpose. With that national champion title in every athlete’s dream, they work extremely hard and get tested to ensure improvement.  These tests are physical, mental, technical, or tactile, to cover every aspect of their sport. These tests are also ways to measure success or failure of an athlete’s capability to persevere and never stop until the goals of the team or personal goals have been achieved. For a team that practices everyday they get physically tested to perform at a high level every practice, because of the dedication to sports, Sun Devils have a love for improvement and practice, and as testing duration increases so does the capability to improve performance not matter what sport (Christina M. Spengler, 2012)