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...fourth question on the evaluation form asked, "Are you satisfied with the facilities ties and equipment available in your sport?" More than week ago, most Harvard athletes would have answered yes. However, Carey Cage, a weight and training facility open only to varsity athletes, was still standing a week...
When Carey Cage opened in the summer of 1992, the 5,300 square foot facility was filled with state of the art equipment and plenty of room to workout. The Cage boasted 13,000 pounds of York Olympic free weights and an additional 2,000 pounds of York Olympic rubber bumper plates. There were four power lifting platforms, a dumbbell area, three Schwinn Airdyne stationary bikes with computerized readouts, two sets of plyometric boxes, four Olympic bench presses, two Olympic military presses, eight power squat cages, a multi-hip machine, an eight station Lit/back machine, two calf machines, a hamstring...
...Carey Cage was a main attraction on the tours of recruited athletes, an impressive display of Harvard's devotion to its Division I athletic programs. Harvard fields 41 athletic teams and the majority of these teams, whether in or out of season, have a weekly weightlifting routine. The Cage was easily the locus of the athletic community, a place to workout in the company of other intensely training athletes...
...loss of the athletic community's social focal point, most athletes are most concerned about completing their workout in the crowded confines of the Gordon Track and Tennis Center, which some have likened to a fishbowl. The new weight room is approximately a fifth the size of Carey Cage and remains dangerously crowded with equipment and people during the peak team practice times...
...shame [the destruction of Carey Cage] because it was a very nice facility, but if we make some adjustments as far as our time schedules, we should be able to get all of our lifting in," said Ailey Penningroth, co-captain of the women's track team...