The Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport is a 2,000 seat indoor

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facility at the

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's main campus in

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, Canada. It is home to the university's Varsity Blues basketball and volleyball teams. The facility was completed in the fall of 2014 at a cost $58 million, with $22.5 million coming from the Ontario

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and $11 million from the Goldring family, for whom the centre has been named. The facility was designed by

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Along with the 2,000-seat, internationally-rated field house for basketball, volleyball and other court sports, the multi-storey sport and exercise facility houses a state-of-the-art strength and conditioning centre, fitness studio and sports medicine clinic, along with research and teaching laboratories.Design Competition Winner - Goldring Centre For High Performance Sport
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, an annual

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that features the best Canadian high school basketball players of the year.

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