Pitt Unveils Plans For $240 Million Sports Arena, Athletics Complex

PITTSBURGH, PA — The University of Pittsburgh has advanced a new $240 million upper campus project known as Victory Heights, which Pitt predicts will provide it with national-caliber competition, training and sports performance and sports medicine facilities.

Groundbreaking will occur early next year for the facility which will include:

• An athletic performance center serving the strength and conditioning, sports medicine, nutrition, and mental needs for 16 of Pitt's 19 intercollegiate athletics programs.
• A 3,000-seat arena for gymnastics, volleyball, and wrestling. Each of those teams currently practice and compete in the 70-year-old Fitzgerald Field House.

Pitt estimates that the complex will impact more than 85 percent of its student athletes on a daily basis.

"Victory Heights is the latest example of Pitt's vision to transform our training and teaching environments to allow our student-athletes to achieve at the highest competitive levels," Pitt athletic director Heather Lyke said. "This is more than an investment in facilities; it's an investment in our young people and their championship dreams at Pitt."