Iowa Visitor Locker Room Pink

That s why iowa s pink visitors locker room is a tradition unlike any other.

Iowa visitor locker room pink.

He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. Former iowa coach hayden fry painted the locker room pink in 1979 and in 2005 more pink was added even pink urinals. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. The visiting team s locker room at iowa s kinnick stadium was painted dusty rose a shade of pink in the 1970s at the request of former coach hayden fry.

When he started coaching at iowa in 1979 he ordered the walls in the visiting room to be pink. Iowa s visitor s locker room is pink you see. By fry s recollection the. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university.

In preparation for their week 11 matchup against the iowa hawkeyes michigan revamped their visitor s locker room in a major way. The legendary visitor s locker room at iowa will greet us tonight. During a 2005 update of kinnick the toilets lockers etc. When teams travel to kinnick stadium they re greeted with a locker room that s both calming and infuriating.