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RE: NTR: Briarcrest $12,800,000 Athletic Complex upgrade
(02-02-2023 05:59 PM)Tigerx3 Wrote: (02-02-2023 05:47 PM)Unbreakable04 Wrote: (02-02-2023 05:33 PM)msu35 Wrote: (02-02-2023 05:24 PM)Tigerx3 Wrote: $11,000,000 in the bank.
It took us a decade to get $10,000,000 for ours. Not sure where we are with our next phase. Anyone seen anything?
Briarcrest-
Swatley explained the building — set to start construction in February and take 12 to 14 months to complete — should include a new weight room; a 100-seat, theater-style meeting room; a training room where athletes are able to do rehab instead of going off campus; new locker rooms for the girls’ lacrosse, softball, and track teams; a student lounge and study space; and a nutrition bar and recovery area.
In addition, Swatley said that the final phase involves constructing a covered, 70-yard artificial turf practice field to be used by its various athletic teams. The practice field would adjoin the school's athletic training and development center.
“This will be a multipurpose [field] that will be used by all our athletes — mainly geared toward high school and then middle school,” she said. “That particular phase will not start until we've completed our capita
l campaign.”
Student-athlete development
According to Swatley, Briarcrest has been in the planning stages for these athletics-related projects for more than a year.
Matt Saunders, athletic director for Briarcrest, is excited about how the projects will make a difference on athletics at the school from junior kindergarten up to high school seniors.
“It’s going to promote what we believe is the highest standard of developing our student-athletes, which is on and off the field,” Saunders said. “It covers bases from elementary, middle, and high schools. That is what we think is so unique about this. [It] isn’t just a capital campaign of $12.8 million that is focusing solely on high school; it’s also covering the male and female sports.”
Swatley said Briarcrest looks to place its student-athletes in the best position possible to flourish in the classroom and within athletics as it grows. Briarcrest saw student enrollment increase from 1,660 for the 2021-2022 school year to 1,750 this year, according to MBJ research.
“At Briarcrest, we have invested in not only athletics, but we have invested in academics, fine arts, and most importantly, the spiritual growth of our students," she said. "These types of projects allow us to serve our current families with a more robust offering as well as attract prospective families.”
So you're going to compare a private high school that costs $20,000 a year per student to attend, to a public university that costs less than half that to attend full time for two semesters? Second question. Do you believe the University of Memphis can build an OCS for under $13,000,000? You people are something special. Ha ha.
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Not sure what that means?
It was directed at the childish poster who you have discovered, msu35, who repetitively comments on every post routinely talking to himself back & forth, trying to denounce everyone he possibly can with his routine clown show.
The echooooooo reference is him talking to himself or commenting countless times on every thread, when no one responds, he picks another poster to shift to. I think he has posted 1,000 times in the past 15 days, it's asinine. Reminds me of the kid in class who would always try to answer every question and think they're really smart, when in actuality, they are not self aware enough to know the whole class cringes every time they would try and show how intelligent they "think" they are and the teacher would roll their eyes.
Not to mention the unsolicited PM's I receive from the poster, for whatever reason. It's truly bizarre.
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