An artist's rendering of the new-look KU football locker room, coming this summer. Illustration courtesy of Kansas Athletics.
You may have read a couple of weeks ago [about the $2-2.5 million Anderson Family Football Complex upgrades][1] planned for the Kansas University football program.
A new-look locker room, new players lounge and updated Mrkonic Auditorium film and meeting room were the cornerstones of the project and the goal was for the upgrades to be finished in time for preseason camp and the 2016 season.
Now, thanks to KU staff member Tyler Olker, we have visual evidence that the project is 100 percent under way.
Olker, KU’s director of recruiting, posted to Twitter four pics of the early stages of the locker room makeover and you can see that construction crews are wasting no time getting going.
In case you forgot, the photo at the top of the blog is an artist’s rendering of what the finished locker room will look like. Below are Olker’s four photos of the initial progress.
Locker Room renovation photo, courtesy of @TylerOlker
A native of Colorado, Matt moved to Lawrence in 1988 and has been in town ever since. He graduated from Lawrence High in 1996 and the University of Kansas in 2000 with a degree in Journalism. After covering KU sports for the University Daily Kansan and Rivals.com, Matt joined the World Company (and later Ogden Publications) in 2001 and has held several positions with the paper and KUsports.com in the past 20+ years. He became the Journal-World Sports Editor in 2018. Throughout his career, Matt has won several local and national awards from both the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Kansas Press Association. In 2021, he was named the Kansas Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association. Matt lives in Lawrence with his wife, Allison, and two daughters, Kate and Molly. When he's not covering KU sports, he likes to spend his time playing basketball and golf, listening to and writing music and traveling the world with friends and family.
