Grand Opening for Rwjbarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center Set for Thursday, Sept
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From: Kevin Lorincz [email protected] Subject: GRAND OPENING FOR RWJBARNABAS HEALTH ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE CENTER SET FOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 12 Date: September 5, 2019 at 2:41 PM To: Kevin Lorincz [email protected] RUTGERS ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY SHI Stadium, Suite A • 1 Scarlet Knight Way • Piscataway, NJ • 08854-8053 732-445-8112 • www.scarletknights.com • @RUAthletics MEDIA ADVISORY September 5, 2019 CONTACT: Kevin Lorincz, [email protected] GRAND OPENING FOR RWJBARNABAS HEALTH ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE CENTER SET FOR THURSDAY, SEPT. 12 EVENT: Ceremony and ribbon-cutting to celebrate the grand opening of the RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center at Rutgers University. Ceremony and ribbon cutting will also be streamed live via the new Scarlet Knights app and on scarletknights.com. DATE: Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 (rain or shine) TIME: 4:15 p.m. PLACE: RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center 95 Rockafeller Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 Media parking will be available in the “green lot,” located on the North side of the Rutgers Athletic Center. WHO: Rutgers University President Robert Barchi, RWJBarnabas Health President and CEO Barry Ostrowsky, Rutgers Board of Governors Vice Chairman Mark Angelson, Chancellor Christopher Molloy, Director of Athletics Patrick Hobbs, head coaches and student-athletes. INFO: The RWJBarnabas Health Athletic Performance Center represents a partnership between Rutgers University and RWJBarnabas Health to create a comprehensive sports medicine program serving Rutgers athletes, students and communities throughout New Jersey. RWJBarnabas Health is the exclusive health care provider for Rutgers Athletics. The 307,000- square-foot, four-story sports facility and parking deck serves as headquarters for a best-in-class sports medicine program and provides headquarters for a best-in-class sports medicine program and provides state-of-the-art practice facilities, training areas, locker room and office space for men's and women's basketball, wrestling and gymnastics. A dining terrace serving nutritious meals to student-athletes, as well as a merchandise store open to the general public, are also included. The facility rose via partnership, tax credits under an Economic Redevelopment and Growth Grant, and the "R Big Ten Build" campaign for new athletics facilities. RSVP: Media should direct attendance confirmations and questions to Kevin Lorincz, Senior Associate Director of Athletics-Communications, at [email protected]. -RU- This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e- mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required, please request a hard-copy version. Rutgers University - DIA 83 Rockafeller Road Piscataway, NJ 08854 www.scarletknights.com.