Flooring - Sunday Cardinal Couple

Flooring

 

Didn't you hear?  Cardinal Couple is pivoting, we're now going to be an internal decorating advice column.

 

I'm kidding of course, but we do have a little bit of a flooring review today, with Volleyball unveiling their new floors that they will be using at LNFCU Arena as well as downtown at the KFC Yum! Center Arena.  The program announced the new flooring a couple of weeks ago, but this week they were able to get pictures to post on social media of the flooring in place.

 

The KFC Yum! Center floor installed as it will be
for matches.

I believe the flooring is Teraflex, a brand used by many volleyball programs at many levels, it's a rubbery sort of material, I'd estimate roughly an eighth of an inch thick.  The rubbery  characteristics creates just a little bit of give in the material which helps protect athletes from injuries.  The floor is made in long wide strips of material which can be rolled up for storage and to move it around more easily than moving the whole floor at one time.

The two floors that UofL will be using only have one difference between them, although that one difference is pretty significant.  For both floors, the inbounds area of the court is a wood grain, and both have a large retro "Walking Cardinal" logo at center court.  The boundary and other court lines are white, and "Louisville" and "Cardinals" are written in UofL's official font along the baselines.

The LNFCU Arena floor, installed as they use it
for practice, cross-wise in the arena.  This would
be turned 90 degrees and centered for matches.

 

The significant difference between the two is the color of the "out-of-bounds" area of the flooring.  At the KFC Yum Center, this area is red, with black highlights around the edges of the "Louisville" and "Cardinals" lettering.  While at the LNFCU Arena, these colors are reversed, with a very striking black "out-of-bounds" area and red highlighting around the lettering.

The extra black for the LNFCU floor combines with the black seats and stands to create a very stark and striking visual environment.

I'm looking forward to seeing these floors in person.  The first opportunity to see either of them will be on August 17th for the annual Red and Black intra-squad scrimmage at LNFCU.  Entrance for this event is first-come, first-served, and with the small size of LNFCU arena, you'll want to get there early to be sure to get a seat.  It's less than a month away!

The first opportunity to see the floor at the KFC Yum! Center will be the AVCA First Serve Showcase event that kicks off the overall volleyball season, not just UofL's, on August 27th.

Cardinal Couple Radio Hour Podcast

The CCRHP was a great survey and preview of all of the fall sports at UofL that we mostly cover: soccer, field hockey, and volleyball.  Case, Paulie, and I were on the call and had a good discussion over the course of the hour.

Check out the podcast at your favorite podcast directory, or directly at it's origination site which is now part of Spotify:

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cardinal-couple/episodes/A-Mini-Fall-Sports-Preview-e2m8j8o

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JMcA