WACO, Texas — Baylor University’s board of regents has approved a plan that will begin integrating athletics into academic campus life at the Waco, Texas, school.
On Feb. 9, Baylor’s 31 voting regents unanimously approved a $34 million plan to build an on-campus athletics facility and academic center. It will be the first time the athletics department and football-training grounds are located on Baylor’s main campus. Floyd Casey Stadium, where the football team plays games and which houses the school’s main athletic facilities, is about three miles from the campus.
The new site will be called the Alwin O. and Dorothy Highers Athletics Complex and the Simpson Athletics and Academic Center. Its focus is a 96,300-square-foot main building that will sit next to the school’s Mayborn Museum Complex and other athletic facilities near the Brazos River.
Named after Baylor alumnus Bob Simpson, the Simpson Center will include training and equipment rooms, locker rooms, weight rooms and offices. The Highers complex — named after the late alumnus Alwin O. Highers Jr. of Alexandria, La. — will have three football fields, including one with artificial turf.
School officials said the new complex would be completed by summer 2008.
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