Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

[UWMandSDSU]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

Anybody have an update? When is the wrestling practice room expected to be completed?

https://www.sdbor.edu/the-board/comm...Plan011317.pdf

http://sdsucollegian.com/2017/11/29/...tice-facility/

I see the article says the practice facility open date is scheduled for November 2018. Does that include the wrestling room? Or is that when construction kicks off for the wrestling room?

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I recently asked someone with direct knowledge and they stated they have a ways to go to get the magic dollar amount. But this person did say though if they are able to reach a certain benchmark they are confident a bump in donations would follow.

[CappinHard]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

Renditions of the Wrestling Practice facility in the link. Bigger news, looks like they leaked that they plan to host a match between France and Kyrgyzstan in the new facility. Can't wait for that.

https://www.sdstatefoundation.org/su...ctice-facility

[fan4wrestling]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

Anyone hear an updates? How has fundraising been going this past year? I was hoping they would beginning construction soon, but with no updates for quite awhile I am guessing that will not be happening.

[UWMandSDSU]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

Anyone hear an updates? How has fundraising been going this past year? I was hoping they would beginning construction soon, but with no updates for quite awhile I am guessing that will not be happening.

Here is a list of capitol projects:
https://www.backthejacks.com/capital...cts/index.html

Because it is a capitol project it will need to go through the SD legislative process which it wasn’t submitted this past year.

You can always contact a staff member from the development dept. Blake Day is a great guy and would be able to answer your questions.
https://www.backthejacks.com/about/index.html#our-staff

Essentially it all comes down to fundraising and if the dollars are not coming through it won’t proceed.

[fan4wrestling]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

Here is a list of capitol projects:
https://www.backthejacks.com/capital...cts/index.html

Because it is a capitol project it will need to go through the SD legislative process which it wasn’t submitted this past year.

You can always contact a staff member from the development dept. Blake Day is a great guy and would be able to answer your questions.
https://www.backthejacks.com/about/index.html#our-staff

Essentially it all comes down to fundraising and if the dollars are not coming through it won’t proceed.

Thanks!

[TheWombat]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

Does anybody know how this is going? I haven't been back to Brookings in a while so I haven't heard anything on this.

[slosho]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

They (Coaches) talked about how they would love to build this right now and are pushing for it. But if they wait till the Frost Reno. it saves like 20Mil.

[AmberValley]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

They (Coaches) talked about how they would love to build this right now and are pushing for it. But if they wait till the Frost Reno. it saves like 20Mil.

What's a Frost Reno?

[slosho]

Re: Construction begins on new practice facility - New Wrestling Room

What's a Frost Reno?

Frost Arena Renovation.

[UWMandSDSU]

Good news on the Wrestling Practice Facility. This comes from Coach Hahn in a recent email with fans.
”Wrestling Facility: I am absolutely thrilled to announce that all the paperwork for our new state of the art wrestling facility has been submitted to the SD Board of Regents for approval. We should know more on the decision in the beginning part of Dec. I am so grateful to all the alumni, parents and friends who have contributed to this project. We will continue to raise funds for the remainder of the facility, but we have overcome the major hurdle of getting to 90% of the total needed to go to the BOR. This will be one of the top wrestling facilities in the country – one that our student-athletes and supporters can be extremely proud of.”

[Northernjackrabbit]

I think what Hahn was posting about a great day to be a jackrabbit might be the approval by the Board for the wrestling facility.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kel...r-at-sdsu/amp/

[GoJacksSW]

It is approved!!!

https://gojacks.com/news/2020/12/11/...ed-by-bor.aspx

[UWMandSDSU]

Interesting that is being built on SW corner of the SJAC.

From the BOR document:
"The first phase, a basketball and volleyball practice facility addition has been completed. SDSU requests the authority to pursue the second phase of the project, a wrestling practice addition. The addition would be constructed on the west side of the Sanford Jackrabbit Athletic Complex. Two sites were examined for the wrestling practice facility. The Sanford Jackrabbit Athletic Complex site was chosen for its site and construction staging advantages, and ability to build a slightly larger facility at a reduced construction cost."

[THE PRIDE IS BACK!!!]

Can we talk about how they completely changed the location of this? It was originally going to be built on the west side of Frost Arena and will now be an addition to the S-JAC. I really liked the idea of it being part of Frost so they could easily go from practice facility/locker room to the arena.

[jackdaniel]

Hope the wrestlers get theirs, just watched a great wrestling movie "the last champion" good movie and Randy Lewis played a bit part in it as a color guy along with Dan Gable during the State Championship scene, you all remember Randy Lewis, from Rapid City Stevens, Collegiate champion and Olympic gold medalist.