Northwestern announced the Trienens Performance Center center Tuesday morning, which is set to be a state-of-the-art practice facility for the basketball and volleyball program. Athletic director Jim Phillips met with the media to discuss the impact the new facility will have in the long-term.
Here are some quotes from the press conference:
- On the announcement: “It’s just a spectacular day, when you think about the announcement we made earlier today, to get a $20 million gift from Howard Trienens. There’s no words to describe the magnitude that this gift will mean.”
- On the need for a new practice facility: “We started to get squeezed in [the fieldhouse] you see here, and the most we could get out was a court and a half.