Boss Tennis Center - Facilities - Dartmouth College Athletics

Boss Tennis Center

Men's Tennis

Women's Tennis

6 Summer Ct., Hanover, NH 03755

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On Monday, September 18, 2000, a new era of tennis began at Dartmouth as the Alexis Boss Tennis Center and Alan D. Gordon Pavilion officially opened. The six-court facility is the home for the Dartmouth men’s and women’s tennis teams and features a lounge, two public locker rooms, two tennis team locker rooms, mezzanine seating and a team meeting room.

Dartmouth's athletic gem honors Alexis Boss ’93, who won All-Ivy recognition in singles and doubles five times before losing a gallant battle to brain cancer in 1995. The pavilion also recognizes Alan D. Gordon ’77, captain of the men’s squash team in 1976-77 and a varsity tennis player as well.

Tennis Industry Magazine honored the facility as its Court of the Year back in April of 2002, stating: “Normally, it’s the attention to details that make a structure stand out. But sometimes it’s the attention to the lack of details.’

"There is not a lot of high-end detailing in this building, which is generally the case on large athletic buildings," says Jim Pulver of Bread Loaf Corp., a full-service provider of planning, architecture and building in Middlebury, Vermont. "So the design quality is a result of using big ideas concerning the layout of the spaces and adjacencies on each level."

And in this regard, the center succeeds beautifully.