The McCrorie Center
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Lenoir-Rhyne College's vision for the future became a reality in June of 2002 with the opening of the McCrorie Center.  The 1959 winner of the Voight R. Cromer Award, which honors athletes who put team before self, and a 1960 graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hank McCrorie and his wife, Bernice, gifted the college $3.4 million to name the building.

Altogether costing $10.3 million, the 47,000-square foot facility is home to the Lenoir-Rhyne College Football Program.  Facing L-R's practice field, the McCrorie Center's ground floor includes the weight-training room, coaches' offices, locker room, hydrotherapy facilities (one of only two at any North Carolina college or university), a state-of-the-art training and rehabilitation center, clinical areans and sports medicine faculty offices.

Not only does the McCrorie Center house the college's football team, but it is also home to some of the nation's top health-related departments:  nursing, occupational therapy and sports medicine.  Approximately one-third of the college's students are majoring in the allied health sciences, including pre-medical science.

Lenoir-Rhyne is expecting the McCrorie Center to play a significant role in increasing the number of health-care practitioners serving the region and the state - while providing its many intercollegiate sports with expanded locker, equipment, training and office areas.

"I hope this gift and the construction of this building will allow Lenoir-Rhyne College to continue to attract the students it desires and to excel in academic and athletic programs", said McCrorie.  "The three most important things I received from Lenoir-Rhyne College were an education, inspiration and friendships that will last a lifetime."

The building's main floor house allied classrooms, a fitness facility - which caters to the entire campus community - a physical rehabilitation room, a patience care laboratory, a new state of the art computer lab and a student lounge.

Finally, the second floor includes a conference room, nursing and occupational therapy faculty offices, a craft laboratory, and pediatric laboratory for occupational therapy, Lenoir-Rhyne's first on-campus human anatomy laboratory and the Student Health Center are also located on the floor.