Ruane Friar Development Center

The Ruane Friar Development Center (RFDC) is a multi-purpose building that opened on Sept. 29, 2018 and has significantly enhanced Friar athletics, student services and College community life. The 56,000 square foot facility includes a 15,481 square foot, two-court practice facility for men's basketball. It also features improvements for other student-athletes, including an Innovation Lab, an expanded Canavan Sports Medicine Center and a student-athlete fueling station. Other highlights include an athletic training center, offices, a new Friar Athletics Hall of Fame, and a statue of legendary Providence College Men's Basketball Coaches Joe Mullaney '65 Hon & '98 Hon and Dave Gavitt '89 Hon, located just outside the main entrance. The large patio serves as a useful outdoor function location and an impressive backdrop to the Ray TreacyTrack at Hendricken Field.

Photo: Copyright Sarah Mechling. Courtesy Perkins Eastman.

INNOVATION LAB

The Innovation Lab is available to each of our 350+ NCAA Division I studentathletes. The lab is part of the overall Sports Medicine Department, with a primary focus on rest and recovery. The facility is one of very few in the country at the collegiate level. The facility houses the following amenities:

• Mindfulness Room: Five (5) nap pods for sleep/meditation • Recovery Area: Five (5) zero gravity recliners with massage and heat, which may be used with recovery pump gear • Two (2) sensory deprivation float rooms – 30 minutes of total relaxation, floating in 95 degree salt water in darkness • CryoTherapy Chamber – Standing chamber uses liquid nitrogen to bring temperature to -130 degrees as you rotate in the chamber for three minutes • Bod Pod: Used for total body composition • Offices for sports nutrition, sports psychology and the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Health & Wellness

Dimeo Construction of Providence served as the general contractor for the RFDC. Perkins Eastman of New York served as the building's architect. Advent, which is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn., created the branded spaces