FAYETTEVILLE — The soon-to-be-constructed baseball operations building at the University of Arkansas will be named for the family of J.B. and Johnelle Hunt, pending approval by the UA Board of Trustees at its meeting this week in Little Rock.
The Hunt family donated $5 million to the project, according to a UA release Tuesday. If approved, the building will be named the J.B. and Johnelle Hunt Family Baseball Development Center.
It would be the second building on the UA campus named for the Hunts. In 2007, the UA opened the J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. Center for Academic Excellence, a classroom building located on the corner of Dickson St.