Kirk Athletic Center

Updated (2024)
The Kirk Athletic Center comprises the completely renovated Gammon Gymnasium and two new wings. It is the home of all field sports—football, soccer, lacrosse, and baseball—as well as cross country, tennis, and golf. The Kirk Center was completed and dedicated in the fall of 2008, and the new additions have provided Hampden-Sydney athletics with some great new improvements. Among the additions are four brand new locker rooms for the Tigers, a new training room, a renovated basketball court, new offices for coaches and administrators, hall of fame gallery, classrooms and a renovated weight room. Now for the first time, each sport has its own locker room, each with direct access to the exterior.

The football staff now has brand new offices in the Krupin Wing overlooking Fulton Field. Below their offices is the new locker room with space for 150 players. The room comes with new lockers, showers, and bathrooms with each player getting his own locker and numbered stool looking at nine ODAC Championship banners. Right across the hall is the new athletic training room that is roughly three times the size of the former training room. The new room comes with many new features including six training tables; four whirlpools, two of which are full body size; two offices; and a flat screen HD television.

John W. "Bill" Kirk III '72 was a four-year defensive starter on the Tiger football team, including both Knute Rockne Bowl squads in 1970 and 1971. On the gridiron, he earned All-State and All Mason-Dixon Conference honors as a senior and helped lead the Tigers to their first ever 10-0 season in 1971. That same year, the defensive tackle anchored a talented unit that led the nation in total and scoring defense. Kirk was also a member of the College’s wrestling team and finished fourth overall in the 1970 Mason-Dixon Tournament. He is the major benefactor for the Kirk Athletic Center, which has profoundly improved the lives of coaches and student-athletes at Hampden-Sydney. Kirk has served on the Athletic Committee of the Board of Trustees for many years. He received a special citation into the Hampden-Sydney College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2012.

Bill is Chief Executive Officer of Associated Asphalt overseeing its operations throughout the Southeastern United States. Associated Asphalt is one of the largest providers of liquid asphalt to the paving industry in the United States.