Pink Locker Room

For the past 40 years the kinnick stadium locker room for visiting teams has been painted pink and during a 2004 renovation pink lockers toilets and showers were installed.

Pink locker room.

The iowa hawkeyes have a pink visiting team locker room at their kinnick stadium conceived by iowa coach hayden fry who had majored in psychology at baylor university. Improving the culture of hawkeye football should include repainting the pink walls and replacing the pink toilets lockers showers in the visiting team s locker room. The pink locker room tradition has been continued with the newly renovated locker rooms which include everything from pink urinals to pink lockers. 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.

Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. I agree with the author of a letter to the editor in a recent edition of the gazette. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. 3 michigan 9 1 7 1 big ten.

The school rebuilt its pink locker room in 2005 during a stadium renovation project and it has been the subject of controversy since. A university professor at the time erin buzubis made it her goal to get the locker room back to normal and iowa fans responded by selling pink apparel with the hawkeye logo all over it. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. Link to the article follows.