CHAMPAIGN — A $3 million donation has set a facility upgrade in motion for the Illinois baseball team, with the Susan and Clint Atkins Baseball Training Center — a state-of-the-art indoor practice facility — scheduled to be completed by 2021.
The Atkins' donation is their second to Illinois athletics. They gifted $2.5 million for the Atkins Tennis Center that was completed in 1991.
"I am very pleased and honored to make this donation to the University of Illinois for the Susan and Clint Atkins Baseball Training Center," Susie Atkins said. "Thirty years ago my husband, Clint, and I made a donation to the University's Atkins Tennis Center and through the years, Illinois has never forgotten that gift and has been extremely generous with their gratitude.