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.

University of iowa pink locker room. But back in 1979 iowa coach hayden fry thinking it would give. The pink locker room tradition has been continued with the newly renovated locker rooms which include everything from pink urinals to pink lockers. 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.

Recently iowa has drawn criticism about the locker room with some calling it pink shaming in 2013 a former iowa professor said that the university could be subject to a legal challenge based. The pink locker room was the brainchild of legendary iowa coach hayden fry who was the coach for the hawkeyes from 1979 to 1998. 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. 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.

He claims that he once read that the color pink can have a calming effect on people. For more than three decades the walls of the visitors locker room at the university of iowa s kinnick stadium have been pink.