The Board of Visitors approved this weekend a new $1.7 million sports medicine facility, set to be built on the University's North Grounds to accommodate over-crowding in the current athletic department facility.
"As the demands have increased, I think the University and the Athletic Department are trying to accommodate the athletes," Head Athletic Trainer Ethan Saliba said.
Saliba said the McCue Sports Medicine Center was originally designed to serve the football program but today works with all the of the University's athletic departments.
"Because the athletic center was so long under one roof, it became diversified," Saliba said of the McCue Center, which was constructed on the North Grounds in 1991.
Officials hope the new facility will allow the McCue Center to focus on football again.
"Hopefully expanding the facilities would decompress the volume," Saliba said.
The North Grounds at Massie Road and Emmett Street house the core of the University's athletic programs. The new facility will connect University Hall and Onesty Hall.
The expansion is designed "to augment facilities that are existing in University Hall," University Architect David Neuman said.
"It is seen as a temporary building so it will probably be around for 10 years," Neuman said. The building is intended to provide a solution to a problem requiring immediate attention, he said. "We have to provide adequate training and rehab facilities for all our athletes, both women and men."
Saliba said the new facility will be a "win-win situation."
"Hopefully [it will] accommodate other sports much better because it would be closer to their locker rooms and facilities," he added.
The project is set to be complete August 2005. Funding for the project will come from Athletic Department auxiliary funds.
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