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Watch: Tour Fighting Illini Athletics' Football Center Weight Room

AB Staff
Feb 21, 2022
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Courtesy of Fightingillini.com

Get a look inside the Henry Dale and Betty Smith Football Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The 107,650-square-foot, $79.2 million facility, which opened in 2019, is the home of the Fighting Illini football program, including strength and conditioning and sports medicine space, coaches' offices, position meeting rooms, player development areas, locker rooms and other areas for recruiting.

Coach Tank Wright, director of football strength and conditioning, takes viewers through a guided tour of the weight room:

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