The 145,000-square-foot Anderson Training Center houses day-to-day operations for the Tennessee football program.
What's on this page?
- The Anderson Training Center
- LaPorte Strength & Conditioning Facility
- Adair-Carlson Student-Athlete Wellness Center
- Smokey's Sports Grill
- Ray and Lucy Hand Digital Studio
Anderson Training Center Info
- Address:
Lake Loudoun Blvd.
Knoxville, TN, 37996
The Anderson Training Center
Tennessee’s football history has been built upon a solid foundation of legendary tradition. It carries this tradition into the future in Anderson Training Center, one of the largest and most technologically advanced football training facilities in the country. Tennessee student-athletes enjoy access to the more than 145,000 square-foot megaplex designed for one purpose—to engineer bigger, faster, stronger players who can compete at the highest level every week. This state-of-the-art facility provides everything required to be coached by, cared for, and trained by the absolute best staff in college football.
The facility is named in honor of the leadership support of the Anderson family, including Charlie and Moll Anderson of Knoxville, Terry and Susan Anderson and Charlie Sr. and Hilda Anderson, both of Florence, Alabama.
Charlie is a former student-athlete with the Volunteers football program (1974-76) and served as a Board of Trustees member. He and Moll have been leadership donors to athletics for many years and also have impacted multiple areas of campus with their generosity. Terry also played football at UT, and his son, Carson, also played for the Vols and graduated in December 2012.
Dedicated in April 2013, Anderson Training Center adjoins the Brenda Lawson Athletic Center and Neyland-Thompson Sports Center. It provides UT student-athletes direct access to both the 120-yard indoor football field and Haslam Field, featuring three full outdoor football practice fields.
The Tennessee football staff occupies offices — equipped with the latest technology and wired with fiber-optics to instantaneously deliver game and practice film — that overlook the south end zone of the Robert E. White Indoor Field, which is 120 yards from end to end and features familiar Tennessee gameday imagery— the “Power T” midfield logo and UT’s world-famous checkerboard end zones. When the beautiful Tennessee skies give way to inclement weather, practices go on, uninterrupted, under one roof.
Team meetings take place in first-class surroundings. Designed as a working amphitheater, the impressive Jonathan Wyatt Team Meeting Room accommodates 165 Tennessee Vols and their coaches with spacious, custom-designed chairs. Whether players watch movies, highlight tapes, or game film, this room showcases a premiere theater experience second-to-none in quality, HD picture and sound.
Volunteers student-athletes give their all for Tennessee, so Tennessee gives back, with care and comfort. The 7,000 square-foot Bronson-Johnson Locker Room features 125 lockers, custom crafted and designed with more than enough ventilated space for each team member. Players will find connectivity for mobile devices in each locker, all within close viewing distance of high-definition televisions.
All facilities and facilities projects at the University of Tennessee are funded by season-ticket revenue and private donations to the Tennessee Fund.
The world-class facility is named in honor of the leadership support of the Anderson family, which boasts three proud VFLs.
LaPorte Strength & Conditioning Facility
The strength and conditioning staff operate in the LaPorte Strength & Conditioning Facility, a multi-level thunderdome of power amid 22,000 square feet of custom weights and state-of-the-art equipment. The space includes high-definition displays and a full-service nutrition bar “Fueling Station” for athletic supplementation. A dedicated cardiovascular zone completes this dream facility.
Adair-Carlson Student-Athlete Wellness Center
Tennessee’s world-class and award-winning sports medicine staff makes use of the Anderson Training Center’s Adair-Carlson Student-Athlete Wellness Center, which boasts a hydrotherapy room, full-service athletic training room and physical therapy room.
The Mary C. Hodge Hydrotherapy Room houses two Hydroworx 1200 underwater variable speed treadmills, two Hydroworx Plunge Pools, and a 45-foot lane pool.
The athletic training room features 10 Adapta Summit series treatment tables as well as many treatment modalities such as GameReady, Hivamat, Rebound Diathermy, Solaris E-stim/Ultrasound units, NormaTech MVP and Vectra Genesis laser units.
The physical therapy room features state-of-the-art rehab and diagnostic equipment such as the MRS functional squat, the Biodex system 4 PRO and the Proprio 5000 units. Team physicians perform on-site digital X-Rays using a FUJI FCR Go2 Unit and conduct diagnostic ultrasounds using a Sonosite M-Turbo unit.
Smokey's Sports Grill
Smokey's Sports Grill, located just steps away from the south end of the Robert E. White Indoor Field and directly beneath the Adair-Carlson Student-Athlete Wellness Center, is part training table and part sports-themed restaurant, functional to meet the nutritional needs of Tennessee student-athletes while also comfortable enough to be a place for teams to bond.
The decor in Smokey's is that of a modern sports grill, with a glass and brick theme throughout and large flat-screen televisions hanging from the ceiling in every corner.
Smokey's serves as the primary training table for student-athletes from all sports at Tennessee, offering breakfast, lunch and dinner menus.
Ray and Lucy Hand Digital Studio
Described as a melding of Times Square and Neyland Stadium, the unparalleled Ray and Lucy Hand Digital Studio places Tennessee at the forefront of on-campus studio space and video production while doubling as a branding lab for Big Orange student-athletes.
The digital studio is actually comprised of two large studio areas, one on the north side of the Neyland-Thompson Sports Center, the other on the south side of the Anderson Training Center. Both studios can be configured in multiple ways to produce a variety of programming for the SEC Network, the Vol Network and other in-house productions.
The cutting-edge Rice-Hudson Production Control Room allows UT to produce multiple events simultaneously for the SEC Network and its streaming content platform, SEC Network+, while also producing the in-house videoboard feeds for fans attending events.
The Times Square component comes from the giant video boards in each studio, which are visible to fans from the outside both the north and south studio spaces. Via the large windows, reminiscent of those of New York TV studios, fans can watch events produced in the studios as well as coach and student-athlete press conferences conducted throughout the week.
UT and its award-winning VFL Films staff have long put a priority on high-quality video production to showcase the talents and tell the stories of its student-athletes and to train the next generation of on-air and behind-the-scenes television talent. Products of Tennessee program are now in a variety of positions at virtually every national network, sports and otherwise.
The combination of The Anderson Training Center and the pre-existing Brenda Lawson Athletic Center, Neyland-Thompson Sports Center, Haslam Field and Robert E. White Indoor Field gives Tennessee the nation's best facilities to recruit and develop elite student-athletes for football and all sports.
The Anderson Training Center was designed jointly by Blankenship and Partners & Cope and Associates, and was built by Blaine Construction of Knoxville.
