Stadium is the stadium for Virginia Tech's football team. It opened in 1965 has been rated as having the "number one home field advantage" in all of college football. It replaced Miles Stadium, a smaller facility that once stood directly behind the War Memorial Gym. Cassell Coliseum Cassell Coliseum is a 10,052-seat multi-purpose arena in Blacksburg, Virginia. The arena opened in 1961. It is home to the Virginia Tech Hokies men's and women's basketball teams. Other athletics facilities Additional athletic facilities: Buford Meredith Cross Country Course Burrows-Burleson Tennis Center Christiansburg Aquatic Center English Field (baseball) Football Locker Room Facility Hahn Hurst Basketball Practice Center Indoor Practice Facility James C. Weaver Baseball Center Johnson / Miller Track Complex Merryman Athletic Facility Olympic Sports Weight Room Pete Dye River Course Rector Field House Tech Softball Park Sandra D. Thompson Field War Memorial Pool Wrestling Locker Room / Practice Facility Residence halls Ambler Johnston Hall Ambler Johnston Hall is a large co-ed undergraduate residence hall located on Washington Street across from the Cassell Coliseum parking lot in what is known as the Summit Community. Completed in 1968, the hall is named after Ambler Johnston, a 1904 graduate of Virginia Tech, who was the co-founder of Carneal & Johnston Architects (now Ballou Justice and Upton Architects). The hall is divided into two wings, commonly referred to as East AJ and West AJ on campus. West AJ is the larger of the two halls and is taller by one story. The wings are connected by commons areas on the first, third, and sixth floors. West AJ's fourth floor was the location of the first of two attacks during the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16, 2007, which resulted in the shooting deaths of a female resident and a male resident adviser. In early 2010, two students are reported to have broken onto the roof of the larger hall, West Ambler Johnston. East Ambler Johnston reopened in the fall of 2011 as the Honors Residential College (HRC). The newly renovated East AJ features some rooms with private baths, several apartments where four student share a living room, bath, two bedrooms, and kitchen. Some traditional halls where bathroom facilities are shared by half a floor were retained; however, these too were remodeled. The latest renovation added air conditioning. In the "bridge" that spans between East and West AJ and on the lower levels, there are meeting rooms,