(August 20, 2008)--Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw guided News 10 on tour of the Highers Athletics Complex and Simpson Athletics and Academic Center.
The facility, which will feature three football practice fields, two with a natural surface and the other with artificial turf, should be ready for an early-December move-in.
The 96,300-square-foot Simpson Athletics and Academic Center will bring to campus functions previously housed at Floyd Casey Stadium, such as the main athletics training room, equipment room, football team locker room and weight room, as well as administrative offices, the football office, meeting rooms and an academic center for all student-athletes.
The lead gift for the project - the largest single gift in Baylor's history - is from the estate of Alwin O. Highers Jr. of Alexandria, La. A 1939 Baylor business graduate and well-known owner of the Dr Pepper Bottling Co. in Alexandria, Highers was a dedicated supporter of Baylor athletics, in particular its football program, until his death in 2003. Highers is survived by his wife, Dorothy.
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