For those who didn't know, Kaplan Arena has been closed for the past month undergoing a huge anti-mold project that has involved completely cleaning the ugly, rapidly-growing mold that has been evident across the arena's ceiling for the past several years.

The floor, completely covered with protective lining, has been filled with floor to ceiling construction to enable workers to clean the ceilings and walls of the mold. This project had to be done...it had grown into a health hazard and offered the grim possibility that the health department would shut the whole place down because of the mold growth.

Last season any glance at the ceiling would have made the problem evident to anyone.

No idea of the cost---but it had to be very high for a space as big as Kaplan Arena...it costs a small fortune just to get mold out of a residence. Many workmen, working high on the floor to ceiling parapets, were involved in this major project.

Hopefully the costs were paid for by the College's maintenance funds,
not athletic funds, since the building, of course, serves other major functions for W&M (graduation, convocations, concerts, etc.).

Our team has been working out in the student athletic center directly across from W&M Hall.