As College of Wooster students rush in an out of Lowry Student Center the sounds of contruction fill the background. The new Scott Center is scheduled† for completion in January of 2012 and over the summer major progress was made toward the completion of this new addition to the College of Wooster campus.
The 123,000 suare foot athletic center will cost aproximately $30 million and includes four brand new multipurpose intramural courts and a state of the art fitness center with new elliptical and rowing machines.
In addition to these new adminities intended for use by all students, the facility will also include new equpment for the College of Wooster’s athletic teams. The Wooster track and field team will have acess to a 200-meter indoor track in addition to new long jump, pole valut and triple jump facilities.
In addtion to these new track and field facilities, the baseball team will recieve new batting cages, and locker rooms.
The coaches and faculty of Wooster athletics and physical education will receive new offices and departmental rooms for meetings and interviews.
Although the opening of the new Scot Center has limited student† acess to the current exercise facilities, noticable progress was made over the summer. Anyone standing on the Lowry patio can now see the base structure for this new athletic facility which will eventually provide students with acess to state of the art equipment. What was once the empty remnants of the physical education center parking lot is now the beginnings of the future of Wooster Athletics.
This facility will give† The College of Wooster a more competatieve stance with perspective students. Other schools such as Denison University and Kenyon College have opened state of the art athletic facilities within the last ten years† making the new Scot Center a major step up for the College of Wooster campus.