University Of Iowa Pink Locker Room

For more than three decades the walls of the visitors locker room at the university of iowa s kinnick stadium have been pink.

University of iowa pink locker room.

When you think of possible colors to paint a locker room in a college football stadium pink probably doesn t top the list. Fry had graduated with a psychology degree from baylor university. 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. Controversy flared during the 2005 season when a visiting law professor along with other university faculty and students protested the pink coloration as demeaning to women and homosexuals.

The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. Former iowa coach hayden fry had the hawkeyes visiting locker room painted pink in 1979 purportedly as a means to gain a pregame psychological advantage against opponents. 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.

When the football stadium was renovated in 2005 the university took the theme even further adding new lockers showers and urinals all featuring various shades of the color. The pink locker room tradition has been continued with the newly renovated locker rooms which include everything from pink urinals to pink lockers.