Trees Hall

Trees Hall, designed by the architectural firm of Deeter & Ritchey in the international style,{{citation | url=http://www.facmgmt.pitt.edu/MasterPlans/2010.pdf | title=Proposed Institutional Master Plan Update University of Pittsburgh (Final Draft) | last=University of Pittsburgh Facilities Management Division | last2=MacLachlan, Cornelius & Filoni, Inc. | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | page=41 | date=2010-01-29 | access-date=2011-01-23}} first opened in 1962,[http://ryan.library.cmu.edu/fmi/xsl/AA/browserecord.xsl?-lay=Layout+%231&-recid=6195&-find=-find CMU Architectural Archives: Trees Hall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826121710/http://ryan.library.cmu.edu/fmi/xsl/AA/browserecord.xsl?-lay=Layout+%231&-recid=6195&-find=-find |date=2011-08-26 }} with a second phase of construction was completed in 1965.[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittfact;cc=pittfact;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;q1=allen%20hall;rgn=full%20text;idno=1974a073698;didno=1974a073698;view=image;seq=18;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset; Fact Book 1974, University of Pittsburgh, 1974; Documenting Pitt; accessdate=2008-08-27] It serves as the home to University of Pittsburgh School of Education's Department of Health and Physical Activity.

Trees facilities include a dance studio, weight room, racquetball and handball courts, three basketball/volleyball courts, a gymnastics area, climbing wall, golf practice area, classrooms, and a computer lab and also serves as the home of the athletic training program at the University.[http://www.tour.pitt.edu/tour-191.html Pitt tour: Trees Hall][http://www.intramurals.pitt.edu/facHours-sports.asp Facility Information - Sports and Recreation][http://www.education.pitt.edu/technology/treeslab/ Trees Hall computer lab]

Trees Hall's pool serves as the home to Pitt's varsity men's and women's swimming and diving teams and the facility also houses the training facility for Pitt's women's gymnastics team. Trees Hall previously served as the primary home to the Pitt women's volleyball team from 1974-1981 until they moved into Fitzgerald Field House starting with the 1982 season.{{cite book | url=http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/pitt/sports/w-volley/auto_pdf/06-media-guide.pdf | page=35 | title=2006 Pitt Volleyball Media Guide | editor-first=Nicole | editor-last=Amato | editor2-first=Brad | editor2-last=Cuprik | year=2006 | publisher=University of Pittsburgh | location=Pittsburgh, PA | access-date=2010-06-23}}

Trees Hall underwent significant renovations in 1999 when the gymnasium floors were resurfaced to provide a secondary practice facility for many of the Panthers teams,[http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/facilities/pitt-facilities-trees-pool.html Athletic facilities: Trees Pool] a $5.1 million renovation in 2004 when gymnastics and other training facilities were added,[http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory.fp5&-format=d.html&-lay=a&-sortfield=issueid%3a%3aissuedate&-sortorder=descend&keywords=trees%20hall&-max=50&-recid=33870&-find= University Times: Building, renovation projects abound, 2002] and a $2 million renovation to Trees Pool in 2008.[http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/m/FMPro?-db=ma.fp5&-format=d.html&-lay=a&-sortfield=date&-sortorder=descend&keywords=master%20plan&-max=50&-recid=37475&-find= NewsFromPitt: Construction and Renovations, 2008]

Trees Hall is named for Pitt alumnus, trustee, benefactor, and prominent athletic supporter Joseph Clifton Trees (M.E. 1895) who donated $100,000 for the construction of the original Trees Gymnasium in 1912 which, now demolished, sat near the site of the present day Veterans Administration Hospital in Oakland.[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittmiscpubs;cc=pittmiscpubs;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;q1=trees;rgn=full%20text;idno=00afj8718m;didno=00afj8718m;view=image;seq=290;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset; Agnes Lynch Starrett, Through one hundred and fifty years: the University of Pittsburgh, pgs 234, 330, 1935][http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittmiscpubs;cc=pittmiscpubs;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;q1=trees;rgn=full%20text;idno=00c50130m;didno=00c50130m;view=image;seq=0082 Robert C. Alberts, Pitt: the story of the University of Pittsburgh, 1787-1987, pg 61-62, 1986] While at Pitt in 1891, Trees became Pitt's first subsidized athlete as a star 210 pound tackle on Pitt's football team.[http://digital.library.pitt.edu:80/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittathletics;cc=pittathletics;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;q1=Joe%20Trees;rgn=full%20text;idno=31735038318758;didno=31735038318758;view=image;seq=0136 1998 Pitt Football Media Guide, pg 138]

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Joseph C. Trees Pool, housed in the left wing of Trees Hall, is home of the men's and women's University of Pittsburgh Swimming and Diving teams and features a 75-by-165 foot (23-by-50 meter) Olympic-size swimming pool with a 770,000-gallon capacity. This main pool has the dual capability of an eight-lane, 50-meter course or a 20-lane {{convert|25|yd|m|adj=on}} course. When completed in 1962, it was hailed as the largest indoor pool in the country.[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittmiscpubs;cc=pittmiscpubs;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;q1=Trees%20Hall;rgn=full%20text;idno=00c50130m;didno=00c50130m;view=image;seq=0284 Robert C. Alberts, Pitt: the story of the University of Pittsburgh, 1787-1987, pg 264, 1986] Although it was one of the last {{convert|55|yd|m|adj=on}} pools constructed in the United States, it was also one of the first pools with a 10-meter high-dive tower, underwater windows, underwater sound system, and heated deck and benches. Along with the 10-meter diving platform, it also has 5- and 7-meter platforms.[http://www.collegeswimming.com/team/Pittsburgh/ CollegeSwimming.com: University of Pittsburgh, accessdate=2008-12-13] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205050117/http://www.collegeswimming.com/team/Pittsburgh/ |date=2008-12-05 }} An additional 6-lane {{convert|25|yd|m|adj=on}} pool was added in the summer of 1963. In 2002, a Daktronic scoreboard was installed and dedicated the Ben Grady, a former Pitt head swimming coach. In 2003, a Panthers' Wall of Fame was unveiled that featured plaques of every Pitt Swimming and Diving All-American as well as conference and meet championship trophies.[http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/pitt/sports/c-swim/auto_pdf/07mediaguide.pdf 2006-07 Pitt Swimming and Diving Media Guide] Currently, the diving area is equipped with two one-meter and two three-meter durafirm stands with maxiflex boards, in addition to multiple diving towers with a {{convert|16|ft|m|adj=on}} water depth. Trees pool is underwent a $1.92 million major renovation completed in September 2008 which includes a new bottom logo, new 1-meter diving platforms, new pool deck, new deck heating, new water heating, filtration and circulation systems, and a reduction of the pool length from 55m to 50m.[http://www.teampittsburgh.com/html/A%20picture%20story%20of%20the%20renovation%20of%20Pitt's%20Trees%20Pool-%20Summer%202008.pdf Trees Pool renovations] Trees Pool is also the home of Team Pittsburgh youth and masters swimming program.[http://www.teampittsburgh.com/ Team Pittsburgh aquatics]

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• 1964 Women's Senior Indoor National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Championships{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j3ofAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AE8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=7376%2C533684|title=3 More Marks Fall In AAU Swim|first=Bill|last=Heufelder|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=April 17, 1964|access-date=February 5, 2013}}
• 1979 Women's College Nationals AIAW Championships
• 17 Big East Conference Swimming and Diving Championships (1983–1996, 1998, 2010, 2012).{{cite web | url=http://www.pittsburghpanthers.com/sports/c-swim/spec-rel/020912aac.html |title=Big East Swimming and Diving Championship Begins Friday at Trees Pool | publisher=PittsburghPanthers.com | date=2012-02-09 | access-date=2012-02-19}}
• Numerous Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships (including 2004, 2008, and 2011)
• 2003 Long Course Eastern Zone Championships[http://www.pvswim.org/eastzone/ezlc03_bi.htm LC Easter Zone Championship] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517002601/http://www.pvswim.org/eastzone/ezlc03_bi.htm |date=2008-05-17 }}
• 2005 Senior Olympics (swimming, Trees Hall also hosted badminton and volleyball)[http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/u/FMPro?-db=ustory.fp5&-format=d.html&-lay=a&-sortfield=issueid%3a%3aissuedate&-sortorder=descend&keywords=%22Cost%20center%22&-max=50&-recid=34436&-find= University Times:Pitt expected to be hub of Senior Olympics games]

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Completed and official opened on October 23, 2004, the Gymnastics Training Center provides {{convert|12000|sqft|m2}} of gymnastics training space to the University of Pittsburgh women's gymnastics team. The second-largest training facility in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League, the Trees Hall gymnastics training facility has two complete vaulting set-ups (one landing into a resipit and the other into foam blocks), three sets of uneven bars (one over a resipit), a single bar over a foam block/resipit, a trench bar system, five balance beams with mount and dismount areas, low beam space, stack beams and beam dismounts into pits, a full floor exercise including tumbling pits, a rod floor/tumble trac into a resipit, an in-ground trampoline, and other amenities such as cardio equipment, lockers, and a music center.[http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/facilities/pitt-facilities-gymnastics.html Gymnastics Facility] The gymnastics team holds its home meets in Fitzgerald Field House, which sits across Aliquippa Street from Trees Hall and is also connected by a tunnel.

File:JosephTreesPitt.jpg, "a true Pitt man" according to the 1915 The Owl student yearbook.[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pittyearbooks;cc=pittyearbooks;g=documentingpitt;xc=1;xg=1;q1=Joseph%20C.%20Trees;rgn=full%20text;idno=1915e49702;didno=1915e49702;view=image;seq=9;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset; The Owl, 1915, pg 4]]]

{{reflist|30em}}

• [http://www.tour.pitt.edu/tour/trees-hall-fitness-center Trees Hall on Pitt's virtual Campus Tour]
• [http://www.pittsburghpanthers.com/facilities/pitt-facilities-trees-pool.html Trees Pool at PittsburghPanthers.com]
• [http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/pitt/sports/c-swim/auto_pdf/JoeCTrees.pdf Trees Pool Records]
• [http://www.intramurals.pitt.edu/TreesHall.php Trees Hall on Pitt's Intramurals & Recreation website]
• [http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/sports/c-swim/pitt-c-swim-body.html Pitt Swimming & Diving]
• [http://pittsburghpanthers.cstv.com/sports/w-gym/pitt-w-gym-body.html Pitt Gymnastics]
• [http://www.teampittsburgh.com/ Team Pittsburgh]

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