Upgrades to Missouri football’s home stadium are officially coming.
The UM System Board of Curators approved a motion Thursday to proceed with the $250 million upgrades to the north concourse of Memorial Stadium in Columbia — the home stadium of Missouri football.
Part of that is a now-official groundbreaking ceremony scheduled for Nov. 30, the same day as Mizzou’s regular-season finale at home against Arkansas. The project is slated to be completed ahead of the 2026 football season. [Columbia Tribune]
The University of Missouri Board of Curators has approved the transformational renovation of Memorial Stadium!
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One of the biggest additions to Florida Southern College's campus in recent years has been the Adams Athletic Performance Center, which broke ground in 2022. The center boasts a 5,000 square foot weight room, a theater for film review, and office suites for the basketball team on campus. Originally slated to open in spring of this year, the project has taken slightly longer than expected, and is currently still in construction, with the exterior completely finished.
The athletic center hopes to maintain FSC’s standing as one of the best Division II NCAA sports programs in the world, as well as reducing traffic around the Nina B. Hollis Wellness Center. FSC’s Athletic Director Dean Howard has been involved with the project from the very beginning.
“We’ve been talking about a new weight room for well over a decade,” said Howard. “Going from looking at the renderings, to the drawings, to really starting to put things in place, to seeing the ground start to move was a lot of fun.” [The Southern]
The University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Department officially opened the Giddis Golf Center on Friday afternoon with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the stand-alone golf facility located at the Hattiesburg Country Club.
“This was one way for me to give back to a school I care so much about,” said Kevin Giddis, a 1983 USM graduate. “This is going to help from a recruiting perspective and take the program to a higher level.”
The 3,500 square-foot golf center now gives USM men’s and women’s golf teams one of Division I’s premier facilities. [WDAM]
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