Van Noord Arena floor receives national recognition!

Van Noord floor honored

The floor in Calvin's new Van Noord Arena has been honored as the Robbins
Sports Surface of the Year for 2008 in the College/Athletic category, one of
five categories in this year's competition.

The floor, the first of its kind to be installed at a college or university in
the United States, has a "sandwich layer" of foam between two layers of wood
and was designed to cushion the pounding that ankles, knees, hips and backs
absorb in sports such as basketball and volleyball, the primary sports housed
in the new arena.

"The research that has gone into developing this floor is impressive and I'd
expect that this will become the floor of the future in most major basketball
and volleyball arenas,” said Glen Van Andel, chair of the committee that
planned the Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex, of which the arena is a part."

Calvin's floor was installed by Michigan-based Foster Specialty Floors, which
also installed an award-winning surface at Davenport University.

Matt Kucinski
Media Relations Manager
Calvin College
msk23@calvin.edu
616.526.8935 (office)
616.307.7429 (cell)
Received on Tue Mar 17 15:15:35 2009