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- Stadium name is only part of the health system鈥檚 expanded partnership with 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Athletics
- 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Sports Medicine will have a role in Student-Athlete Performance Center coming to the former Tailgate Field
- Construction project鈥檚 Phase 1, a turf practice field, is due for completion in the fall
All signs are pointing to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health鈥檚 increasing commitment to 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Athletics and the Davis community overall.
You can see it in the 鈥溞掳拿帕喜誓谀恍畔 Davis Health Stadium鈥 sign that was unveiled Friday night (Aug. 16) at the main gate to the athletic facility formerly known as Aggie Stadium, the only name it had had since it opened in 2007. The student-athletes of football and women鈥檚 lacrosse, who play their games in the stadium, joined Chancellor Gary S. May, Athletics Director Kevin Blue and head football coach Dan Hawkins for the sign unveiling, which took place during the annual Football Fan Fest. See separate story about the Fan Fest and the football team鈥檚 No. 1 fan.
鈥淭oday鈥檚 a celebration of the teamwork that makes us thrive as academics, athletes and Aggies as a whole,鈥 the chancellor said in his prepared remarks. 鈥淚鈥檇 like to start by recognizing the partnership between the Davis campus, our Sacramento campus that hosts 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health, and Intercollegiate Athletics.
鈥淭ogether, no matter what side of the causeway we鈥檙e on, we are all one team. And, that鈥檚 the spirit we鈥檙e showing with 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health Stadium.鈥
新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health and 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Athletics struck a 20-year expanded partnership deal, announced last November, that includes the right to name the stadium. In addition to the main gate, the name appears on the press box and light pole banners, among other places.
If you stand at the main gate and look north, just past the statue of Coach Jim Sochor, you can see another sign of the growing partnership: a construction project at the corner of La Rue Road and Hutchison Drive, on acreage formerly used for tailgating. (Tailgating has been moved to 鈥淐hampions Corridor鈥 on La Rue Road in front of the stadium.)
Besides a practice field, the site will include a new building, the Student-Athlete Performance Center, where 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Health will operate a sports medicine practice for student-athletes and the public.
The field with real turf is going in first, and is expected to open in the fall. Work on the Student-Athlete Performance Center, comprising the construction of approximately 38,000 square feet of new space and the renovation of 16,000 square feet of space in the Bob Foster Team Center, on the stadium鈥檚 north perimeter, is scheduled to start next year.
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