TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Indiana State Athletics Sports Performance Center and Nutrition Station are now open as part of the athletics capital campaign --
Elevate -- The Campaign For Sycamore Athletics. Director of Athletics
Sherard Clinkscales is proud to announce that work has been completed and the Sports Performance Center and Nutrition Station have been open to Sycamore student-athletes over the last month.
Elevate is the first-of-its-kind athletics only fundraising campaign in the history of the department. Indiana State Athletics has identified key fundraising projects that will address immediate needs and create lasting hallmarks for the program. Donor support of
Elevate is critical to the development of all Sycamore student-athletes and will have a direct impact beginning with the 2017-18 academic year. The four projects that gifts to
Elevate will directly support include the brand new Sports Performance Center and Nutrition Station; the Sycamore Fuel Initiative -- which will provide extra healthy meals to our student-athletes; Sycamore Football Coaches Office and Player Lounge Renovation and the installation of a Sycamore Track and Field Interactive Display which will celebrate the rich history of that program.
Additionally, through the generous support of Indiana State University President Dr. Daniel J. Bradley, the university is providing additional funds for the first two completed projects that are also part of
Elevate. The first is the John McNichols Training Track and the second is upgrades to Memorial Stadium. New state-of-the-art lights have been installed at Memorial Stadium and we will take a look at those later this month. The final phase of the upgrades to Memorial Stadium comes next summer with a complete replacement of the field turf used by football and women's soccer.
The most important aspect of
Elevate is that these different projects will benefit every student-athlete on every team through the funds that are being raised.
Today's focus is on the Sports Performance Center and Nutrition Station which is located in the ISU Arena building located on 5th Street in the heart of the Indiana State campus. The brand new state-of-the-art Sports Performance Center replaces the old Strength & Conditioning Center which was constructed in space that was previously an outdoor courtyard in the late 2000's. This summer, Sycamore student-athletes trained downstairs in the legendary "Dungeon", but on August 1st all sports teams at Indiana State began using the new Sports Performance Center and benefiting from the Nutrition Station to refuel for the next workout.
The ISU Arena building is currently home to most of the Sycamore Athletics offices as well as volleyball's home matches and both men's and women's basketball practices. It also is home to renovated work areas for the Strength & Conditioning staff and the home of much hard work for all Sycamore student-athletes. We visited with Clinkscales about the project, you can catch up below:
A special thank you goes to Mike and Mary Blackwell, Mike and Amy Alley, Rich and Robin Porter, Baesler's Market, Norm and Linda Pellegrini as well as John and Marilyn Thyen for their support with this project.
As of October 18, 2017, the Elevate campaign has raised $192,000 towards the goal of $600,000.
