DGL - Gymnastics Practice Facility
The moment you walk into the third floor of the DGL building, you know this is the TWU Gymnastics Practice Facility. Pictures and banners lauding the accomplishments of TWU gymnastics teams past and present fill every free space on the walls.
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The top floor of the DGL, however, wasn’t the first practice/competition site for the Pioneers. TWU used the Old Gym from 1980-84. When the DGL was renovated in 1984-85 - lights, elevators, air conditioning and much more were added - the Pioneers went back to the Old Gym and even used Hubbard Hall - the University’s former dining facility - for vaulting. Following the completion of the renovations, gymnastics returned to the DGL gym. It served as the program’s competition site until 1998, the year that the Pioneers moved into Kitty Magee Arena for their regular-season meets.
DGL had a major renovation in the summer of 2014 with the addition of foam pits, resi-foam landing areas, in-ground tumbling trampoline,  new equipment, and additional space and new matting for all four events (vault, bars, beam, and floor).
The upgrades and additions for the facility include:
- Five balance beams, including two that dismount onto resi-pit landings
- Two sets of uneven bars, including one with a resi-pit landing
- A freestanding single rail over a loose foam pit
- A raised runway and vault table that lands into a loose foam pit
- Full-size competition spring floor plus a 60' tumble strip which finishes into a resi-pit landing
- A 50' in-ground tumbling trampoline which also lands into a resi-pit
The gymnastics office space in DGL also received upgrades with new furniture, paint, and carpet.
Pioneer Hall and Kitty Magee Arena
Pioneer Hall was completed in the spring of 1997 and brought much-needed academic and athletic facilities to Texas Woman’s University. Builders broke ground on the $15.5 million project March 8, 1996. Several University programs utilize the building including the School of Health Promotion and Kinesiology, Dance, Conference Services, Fitness and Recreation, and Intercollegiate Athletics. In 2005, new lighting was installed in Magee Arena and in the summer of 2009, a brand new state-of-the-art floor was installed with a new paint scheme on the main court. The floor was repainted in 2019 to include the updated athletic logo.Â
Pioneer Hall contains 140,000 square feet of space on three floors. The multipurpose gymnasium, which was named Kitty Winter Magee Arena after the longtime women’s athletics pioneer, is on the ground level and has an initial bleacher seating capacity of 1,800 that can be increased to 2,700. Magee Arena is used as the competition site for the TWU volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, STUNT and wrestling programs. Additionally, intramural and recreational sports utilize the arena. A natatorium is also on the first floor. The pool width is sized to accommodate eight lanes of non-competitive swimming and six lanes of competitive swimming. The Pioneer Hall Pool is the current competition site of TWU Artistic Swimming.
The athletic training room and team locker rooms are located on the first floor as well. The remaining space houses classrooms, and seminar rooms. The laboratories - multimedia, research and teaching - have state of the art technology.
The TWU Intercollegiate Athletics offices are located on the second floor along with the School of Health Promotion and Kinesiology's administrative, faculty and advsing offices. Additional classrooms, computer labs, academic offices, racquetball courts and a weight room are located throughout Pioneer Hall. Two large dance/aerobics studios can be found on the third floor. Also, a one-tenth-mile suspended track overlooks Magee Arena.
