14 March 2010

Steven Gerrard opens the new £25.5m sports science centre

Steven Gerrard launches new £25m facility@LJMU

In 1975, the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) became the first to recognise sport as a science and is now again leading the field with a £25.5million facility, launched by LFC captain and LJMU Honorary Fellow Steven Gerrard.

LJMU chose to name the facility the Tom Reilly Building after the late Professor known as the ‘Father of the Science of Football.’

- Appetite laboratories, psychology testing labs, neuroscience labs, an indoor 70-metre running track, physiology suites, a DEXA scanner, a driving simulator and a chronobiology lab

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