THE OPENING OF HUMBER'S FIRST PERMANENT ATHLETIC FACILITY
When Humber College opened its doors in 1967, there were no permanent facilities for athletics. In 1971, Canada’s largest air-structured gymnasium was housed at the North Campus.
The $135,000 fabric dome was intended as an interim facility until a permanent building could be constructed, but it would last for nearly a decade.
Incredibly, "the Bubble”, as it was called, could house two tennis matches, two basketball games, and six volleyball games all at the same time.
Eventually, the Bubble began to show signs of deterioration and a new, permanent athletics building was officially opened in 1979, one of the lasting legacies of Humber’s founding President Gordon Wragg. The new facility was named in his honour.
The Gordon Wragg Student Centre housed full court gyms, squash courts, cardio and weight rooms, and a therapy clinic.
