Venue: Gregory Gymnasium
Town: Austin, US
Capacity: 4,000

Gregory Gymnasium is the 4,000-seat current home of the University of Texas Longhorn women's volleyball team, and former home of the Longhorn basketball and swimming teams. The basketball teams moved out in 1977 to the Erwin Center. It also served as the home court for the Austin Aces of World Team Tennis from 2014 to 2015. The gymnasium has undergone several renovations, and now consists of the original gym and a four-story annex that serves as a gymnasium with an indoor jogging track, basketball courts, racquetball and squash courts, an indoor rock-climbing wall, a moderately-sized weight room, and a cardiovascular exercise facility. All University students can use the gymnasium for free. The gymnasium is available at a low cost to university alumni and their spouses. Following the destruction of Texas' first basketball gymnasium in a fire in 1928, former U.S. Attorney General T.W. Gregory seized the opportunity to spearhead a fundraising initiative for a new facility, later becoming Gregory Gymnasium. Originally built in 1930 with an estimated cost of $500,000, the gym was named after its main advocate and planner, Thomas Watt Gregory. Gregory, an alumnus of the University, served on the University's Board of Regents and as United States Attorney General before the gym was built. On December 5, 1930, Texas celebrated its inaugural men's basketball game at Gregory Gym. By the late 1920s, plans expanded to include a women's gym and student union building, known as the "Union Project". Despite economic hardships during the Great Depression, the Texas Exes contributed over $600,000 to realize this ambitious project, leading to the construction of Gregory Gym and other essential campus facilities. A process that became synonymous with the gymnasium was course registration each semester, where students endured long waits in hot weather to secure their class schedules. From 1930 to 1951, Gregory Gym hosted Fight Night, an annual boxing event that drew crowds from both t