New sports medicine facility approved, set for completion in 2005
By Cheryn Stone | October 5, 2004The 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.
