UNC-Chapel Hill’s plan to revamp its South Campus sports complex took another step forward this week, with trustees signaling support for moving the university’s field hockey team in a bit of musical chairs to help the soccer and football teams.
Advisory votes by the trustees’ finance committee backed proposals to demolish the field hockey team’s existing facility, Henry Stadium, and convert what’s now an intramural sports site, Ehringhaus Field, into the team’s new home.
The $14.2 million project is helping clear the way for the construction of a new soccer stadium close to South Road at what’s now Fetzer Field, and for the construction of another indoor practice building for the football team.