![]() ![]() The Lincoln Park Family Aquatics Center in Marion, Ohio, is scheduled to open this month. The 54,000-square-foot aquatics facility also includes a therapy pool, a multiuse pool, locker rooms, an indoor fitness center and grandstand seating for 700. Previously located in Omaha, Neb., the pool was used in the 2008 Olympic Trials, then disassembled and transported to Virginia. The 50-meter pool already has nine world records attached to it. Many community organizations worked together to complete the $14 million project, which was designed by the Richmond-based architectural firm Baskervill. The Greater Richmond (Va.) Aquatics Partnership's Collegiate School Aquatics Center is now open. A partnership between the academic and athletic departments, the athletic performance lab will offer students more opportunities for hands-on experience, as well as advance concussion and brain injury research. The Board of Regents at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has approved a $5 million plan to build two research labs in East Stadium. The privately funded $1.8 million facility would be about half the size of a typical gymnasium with permanent wrestling mats installed in the floor and provide seating for 800. Olentangy Liberty High School in Powell, Ohio, is seeking school board approval for the construction of a dedicated wrestling facility. The city is offering to pay half of the expected $440,000 project, which would also install a walkway and deck at the park. The Norton Shores (Mich.) City Council has approved a grant application to install lights at three baseball diamonds in Ross Park. Construction is expected to begin in September. The city hopes to use the new facility to lure in an NHL franchise. have reached an agreement on the construction of a $400 million, 18,000-seat sports complex. The project, which will include an indoor turf field, an indoor track, an Olympic-size pool and four basketball courts, and offer free use for students during school hours, will be funded privately by an as-yet-unnamed donor and needs town approval, as well as approval from the state to enter into a public/private partnership with the town. A lone citizen has begun the long approval process required for the construction of a $15 million sports arena on town-owned land near Cantine Park in Saugerties, N.Y. The complex would also be used to host triathlons and canoeing, kayaking and other water sports competitions. Manatee and Sarasota counties are awaiting approval for $5 million in government funding that would help turn Nathan Benderson Park into a world-class rowing facility and rename it the Florida World Aquatic Center. The renovations are expected to be complete by August. The $1.9 million project will replace the existing field with synthetic turf and become a home for the high school and middle school football teams, which had been unable to host visiting teams due to safety concerns and instead played their games at a nearby university. Following school board approval, the Alpine (Texas) Independent School District broke ground this spring on a renovation of its outdated Buck Stadium, including the installation of a track. ![]()
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