With Morrone Stadium officially demolished, UConn’s new baseball, soccer and softball stadiums in the “Athletics District” of campus will soon turn from just computer renderings to real, physical structures. And that’s music to athletic director David Benedict’s ears.
“The grandstand is down now (at Morrone) and one of the challenges that we’ve had from a fundraising standpoint is so many people have heard for so long that this is going to get done,” Benedict said on the Husky Insider Podcast. “Now I can say it has to get done because we don’t have a stadium any longer for soccer.