USC broke ground Thursday on the Bloom Football Performance Center, following the announcement of a $50 million gift from the Ronald H. Bloom family.
A state-of-the-art training facility, the Bloom Football Performance Center will serve as the new home of Trojan Football and allow USC Athletics to reimagine the John McKay Center to best serve its entire student-athlete population. It is also the centerpiece of the Athletics West capital projects, which include the construction of a new stadium for USC Baseball at Dedeaux Field and a golf program practice area.
To date, five Cornerstone gifts of $10 million or more have lifted the fundraising total for the Athletics West projects to $157 million. These generous contributions include gifts from the Bloom Family, the Argyros Family Foundation, Robert and Perri Bishop, the Chad and Cari Peets Family, and others. In total, more than 30 contributors have helped push USC past 75% of the project's $200 million fundraising goal. [USC Trojans]
It was standing room only when the University of West Florida unveiled the Sandy Sansing Sports Medicine Center in the Darrell Gooden Center on Thursday.
The $6 million 10,000-square-foot expansion to the Gooden Center includes a hydrotherapy area with two pools, 12 rehab tables, four taping tables, an exam room and athletic training offices.
Sansing, who received the first UWF athletic scholarship in 1967, said having the sports medicine center named in his honor feels “phenomenal.” [Pensacola News Journal]
#UWF celebrated the grand opening of the Sandy Sansing Sports Medicine Center at the Darrell Gooden Center, a $6M state-of-the-art facility dedicated to enhancing the quality of care for UWF student-athletes.
— UWF (@UWF) November 7, 2024
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To be able to attract University of Hawaiʻi football games and other big events in the future, Maui County plans to shut down War Memorial Stadium in June of 2025 for a one-year renovation project.
The stadium in Wailuku was originally set to be shut down during the current school year, but permit and supply delays pushed things back. The county is still waiting on final permits for the project, but confirmed the details of the closure timeline to Hawai’i Journalism Initiative on Tuesday.
“We’ve got to modernize it and get it to where it’s attractive,” said Shane Dudoit, deputy director of the Department of Parks and Recreation. [Maui Now]
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