MUNCIE, Ind. — The way New Castle athletic director Benjamin Wissel puts it, while the bad luck he had with timing when he joined the Trojans this year was doing so amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the good luck was the school’s new weight room facility that opened in 2020, too.
From what Wissel had heard, New Castle’s old weight room “was kind of dungeon-esque and far outdated.” New Castle school board vice president Kim Williamson, one of the driving forces behind the project, reiterated that when he described what the school had previously as “really bad” and “like a dungeon.