Recreation And Convocation Center (Racc) Opens For The Empire State Games

Recreation and Convocation Center (RACC) opens for the Empire State Games. The first UAlbany teams to use the RACC in intercollegiate play were men's and women's basketball which on December 2nd defeated their opponents (Danes vs. Castleton 77-55; Lady Danes vs. William Smith 97-91) The RACC contains 93,000 sq. ft. of space, 4,800 seats, and has basketball, racketball, squash, handball courts,long jump and pole vaulting areas, a .11 mile indoor track, high-tech training rooms including an aerobics exercise a weight room, and whirlpool and injury training equipment room. Built for $11,750,000. The architects are the firm of Mesick, Cohen and Waite of Albany and the general contractor is U.W. Marx.

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Lisa James, “News & Notes,” Albany Magazine, Fall 1991, p. 25; Elaine Blakeman, “New Construction on Campus,” Update, Nov. 7, 1990, p. [2]; Update Special Empire State Games Issue, July 1992, p. [1]; "Albany hoops christen the RACC," Robert W. Brunnell, III, " Lady Danes beat vengful Williams Smith in two OTs, and Patrick Cullen, "Danes pummel Castleton behind Graber's 30points," Albany Student Press, December 4, 1992, both Sports Supplement, p. 3; Birr, pp. 180-81