🏃 Athletics
War Memorial Hall
Opened 1926
War Memorial Hall on the Drillfield
Photo: Eric T Gunther, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Historic gym on the Drillfield. Closed for years, renovated and reopened in 2024.
Fun facts
- •War Memorial was closed for nearly a decade before its 2024 reopening – students who started and finished at VT never saw it open.
- •The building honors VT alumni who died in World War I.
Through the years
- 1926
Opened
- 2024
Major renovation and reopening
Sports history
🏋Historic Athletics
Notable Figures
Traditions
The Original Gym
Before Lane Stadium and Cassell Coliseum, War Memorial Hall was the heart of VT athletics. Basketball and wrestling both called this Drillfield landmark home. VT wrestling grew into a national power here, producing the program's first individual NCAA champion in Mekhi Lewis (2019).
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