Ole Miss Athletics’ CHAMPIONS.NOW. campaign, launched in January 2022, set out to drastically improve athletics facilities on campus, enhance the student-athlete experience and raise the bar for each program to be able to compete at the highest level.
The $350 million initiative stemmed from Ole Miss Athletics’ top-25 finish in the 2020-2021 Learfield/IMG College Directors’ Cup, a scoring machine that evaluates how well each college’s sports teams finish in their respective seasons and compiles those results into a ranking system.
Prior to the CHAMPIONS.NOW. campaign, the Forward Together Initiative set aside roughly $222 million for various construction projects, including the Sandy and John Black Pavilion, Vaught-Hemingway Stadium renovations, a new track-and-field complex and updates to Oxford-University Stadium.