Planning and fundraising for the $45 million Anderson Training Center, the home of Volunteer football, began in 2007, and the facility was in use in 2012. It was dedicated on April 19, 2013. It includes offices for coaches and administrators, team and position meeting rooms, a lounge for players, and state-of-the-art spaces for strength and conditioning, nutrition, and rehabilitation. The building featured a 22,000-square-foot strength and conditioning facility with a multilevel weight room and cardio area, an 11,000-square-foot rehabilitation and hydrotherapy area, a 7,000-square-foot team locker room, a new dining facility to replace the one in Gibbs Hall, and a plaza with a water wall and markers commemorating great moments in UT athletics’ history. In January 2015 plans for a two-chair barbershop were announced.
The facility was named in honor of the leadership support of the Anderson family, including Charlie and Moll Anderson of Knoxville; Terry and Susan Anderson and Charles and Hilda Anderson of Florence, Alabama. Charlie and Terry (and Terry’s son, Carson) played for the Vols.
The completion of the Anderson Center allowed the space in Neyland-Thompson Sports Center previously occupied by the football program to be repurposed to serve coaches and administrators who were housed in Stokely Athletics Center so that the Stokely building could be razed.
Architects for the Anderson Training Center were Blankenship & Partners and Cope Associates. Blaine Construction and Rouse Construction were the contractors.