The Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust gifted West Virginia University with $10 million to build an Athletics Performance Center at the WVU Coliseum Sports Complex.
The Performance Center is the home for strength and conditioning, training, rehabilitation and nutrition for all WVU Olympic sport programs. More than 400 student-athletes will benefit from the center and enhance WVU's commitment to compete at a national level.
In addition to new weight, training and rehabilitation rooms, the facility features extensive cardio and plyometric areas, hydrotherapy and cryotherapy sections as well as locker rooms to become an all-inclusive home for WVU's Olympic Sports.
The facility equips student-athletes, coaches and staff with a world-class training facility and the necessary means to compete and balance the playing field with conference and national opponents.
Following the extraordinary example of its founder, the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust is one of the University's largest benefactors, having made donations to a wide variety of causes and programs across the University, including WVU Hospitals, School of Medicine, College of Law, WVU Alumni Association, Athletics, Davis College and WVU Extension as well as the establishment of the cross-disciplinary Ruby Scholars Graduate Research Fellowships.
Hazel Ruby McQuain, who passed away in 2002 at the age of 93, and the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust have endowed six chairs in the University; created the Hazel Ruby McQuain WVU College of Law Dean's Endowment Fund; and generously supported various University programs and facilities. Mrs. McQuain also made an $8 million gift toward the construction of Ruby Memorial Hospital, which was named after her late husband, J.W. Ruby. She served as an 11-year member of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors.
In 2012, the West Virginia University Foundation recognized the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust by permanently naming one of its annual philanthropic awards in the Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust's honor. Established in 2005, the Foundation's outstanding philanthropic foundation award is now known as the Hazel Ruby McQuain Outstanding Philanthropic Foundation Award.
