(Story taken from Hendrix website)
CONWAY, Ark. - Hendrix College has always been considered one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education, however, according to the Princeton Review the Warriors’ 2-year-old athletic facilities ranks among the best in the nation.
The Princeton Review recently praised Hendrix College for its
new Wellness and Athletic Center, Bob Courtway Pool and four
outdoor playing fields by ranking it 13th in the country among all
2,500 four-year colleges. That includes all NCAA Division I, II and
III schools.
Hendrix joined Wabash College (Crawfordsville, Ind.) and Middlebury
College (Middlebury, Vt.) as the only other NCAA Division III
schools to make the Top 20 list. Hendrix was also the only Southern
Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) school on the list.
The Warriors finished construction of their new athletic facilities
in August of 2007. The new buildings and playing fields replaced
the 46-year-old Grove Gymnasium. Hendrix is currently finishing
construction of the new Student Life and Technology Center, which
has been erected on the west side of Harkrider where Grove
Gymnasium formerly sat.
"Our new athletic facilities have helped us, along with the great
work of our coaching staff, to increase the number of
student-athletes participating in our 19 sports from about 180 a
few years ago to 350 this year," said Athletics Director Danny
Powell.
The SCAC has given Hendrix the opportunity to show off its new
state-of-the-art facilities by appointing the school as host of the
2008 and 2009 SCAC Men’s and Women’s Basketball
Championships. The Warriors will also boast their outdoor
facilities throughout the upcoming school year as Hendrix plays
host to the 2009 SCAC Field Hockey Championships, 2010 SCAC
Softball Championships and 2010 SCAC Outdoor Track & Field
Championships.
The SCAC has chosen Hendrix as a host school for its conference
championships because of the central location in the conference,
ability to run on-campus tournaments and the abundant hotels and
restaurants Conway has to offer.
One of the greatest aspects of Hendrix Athletics is the affordable
admission to its 19 sporting event’s home games throughout
the year, including SCAC Championships. Fans can come out and enjoy
all the fun and excitement of college athletics for the best price
of all, FREE.
In its profile on Hendrix (pages 280-281), The Princeton Review
praises the college for its involved student body and accepting
atmosphere. Hendrix students are quoted extensively throughout the
review, discussing everything from the "phenomenal [financial] aid
that would be ridiculous to turn down" to the "awesome theme
parties". A political science major noted that "one of
Hendrix’s selling points is the personal relationships that
students build with their professors," while another student
credited professors for being "courageously friendly."
The Princeton Review’s 62 ranking lists in The Best 371
Colleges are entirely based on its survey of 122,000 students
(about 325 per campus on average) attending the colleges in the
book. The 80-question survey asks students to rate their schools on
several topics and report on their campus experiences. Topics range
from student assessments of their professors, administrators,
financial aid, and campus food.
Other ranking lists are based on student reports about their
student body’s political leanings, race/class relations, gay
community acceptance, and other aspects of campus life. A
college’s appearance on a ranking list is entirely the result
of a high consensus among its surveyed students about a topic
compared with that of students at other schools answering the same
survey question(s) on the ranking list topic.
The Princeton Review’s Best Athletic Facilities
Based on student’s rating of campus athletic
facilities
1. University of Maryland, College Park
2. University of Florida
3. Pennsylvania State University-University Park
4. Wabash College
5. Georgia Institute of Technology
6. Texas A&M University-College Station
7. University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
8. Texas Christian University
9. The Ohio State University-Columbus
10. Loyola University Maryland
11. West Virginia University
12. University of Georgia
13. Hendrix College
14. University of Alabama at Birmingham
15. University of Richmond
16. Lafayette College
17. Clemson University
18. United States Military Academy
19. Middlebury College
20. University of Texas at Austin