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The Blue Eagle Gym is a gymnasium located in the main campus of the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. Unlike most gymnasiums, the basketball court is oriented perpendicular to the orientation of the building. The stadium was built in 1949, three years before the Ateneo de Manila moved from its Manila campus to its current main campus in Loyola Heights, Quezon City in 1952. At inauguration in 1949, it was called the Ateneo Gym. From late 1960s to mid-1970s, it was officially known as the Loyola Center. It was in the year 2000 that it was renamed the Blue Eagle Gym. According to historical records, the gym was constructed under the direction of Ateneo Rector William F. Masterson, S.J., to be an alternative venue to the Rizal Memorial Coliseum for the National Collegiate Athletic Association games. It is frequently a venue for sporting events of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (pre-1978). Ateneo's games, however, were played at the Rizal Coliseum to prevent any home-court advantage during the NCAA years. It was also a venue for Philippine Basketball Association games in the league's early years. The Manila Metrostars of the defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association also used the Blue Eagle Gym as a temporary home court before moving to the Mail and More Arena in San Andres, Manila. The stadium played host to the sepak takraw tournament of the 1991 Southeast Asian Games. It was scheduled to be the venue for women's basketball in the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, but since the Basketball Association of the Philippines was suspended by FIBA, the gymnasium was not able to host the event. The gymnasium is the home of the Ateneo Blue Eagles, Ateneo de Manila University's varsity team. It used also as training venue for the 2015 U23 and SEA Games-bounded National Women's Volleyball Teams helmed by the Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas, Inc. (LVPI), which their secretary general Ricky Palou, happened to be the former Athletic director of Ateneo. == Image Gallery== File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 01.JPG|The giant eagle File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 02.JPG|Ateneo's Ignatian logo File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 03.JPG|Right facade File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 04.JPG|Right side facade File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 05.JPG|Right-rear facade File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 06.JPG|Rear facade, left side File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 07.JPG|Rear frontage facade File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 08.JPG|Right rear facade File:Blueeaglegymjf1951 09.JPG|The right side pedestrian road to the gym's interior File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 01.JPG|The glorious interior File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 02.JPG|Subject of historic games and rivalry File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 03.JPG|The venue of Physical education subject of the Ateneo File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 04.JPG|The Blue Eagle Gym stands prominently at 213 feet wide and 281 feet long at the western end of the campus. File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 05.JPG|Inaugurated on 3 December 1949, it was the first building to stand on the Loyola Heights campus— File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 06.JPG|...even before the transfer in 1952 of the College and High School units. File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 07.JPG|The special place where school spirit thrives, where Ateneans converge to cheer their team to victory. File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 08.JPG|All sides of the gym are open to allow neutral ventilation. File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 09.JPG|The gym can seat a total of 7,500 people with 800 box seats, 1,400 reserve seats, and 5,300 bleachers. File:Blueeaglegymjf1999 10.JPG|Its facilities:locker rooms for players, six bowling alleys, billiard room, air-conditioned radio and press box, and 4 snack bars. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blue Eagle Gym」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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