Longtime AD was a baseball fan and oversaw the facility's construction
BLACKSBURG – Virginia Tech baseball’s hitting facility has been renamed in honor of the university’s former athletics director Jim Weaver, whose tenure from 1997-2013 saw tremendous development in the national profile of the university’s athletic programs.
Completed in 2009, the more than 8,000-square-foot facility (please see rendering above) is one of multiple athletics buildings that were constructed or expanded during Weaver’s time at Virginia Tech, during which the university joined the BIG EAST Conference and later the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Weaver, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2004, died in July 2015 at age 70.