CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Illinois has released an updated rendering (above) of the state-of-the-art Susan and Clint Atkins Baseball Training Center. The project is scheduled for completion by January 2022. 

The Susan and Clint Atkins Baseball Training Center will help cement the Fighting Illini as one of the premier baseball programs in both the Big Ten Conference and nationally. The facility will help attract top talent and allow Illini student-athletes the opportunity to train year-round.

The new indoor practice facility for the Fighting Illini baseball program is made possible by a lead naming gift of $3 million by Susie Atkins. The project was first announced November 13, 2018.

The gift was the second major Illinois Athletics facility gift from the Atkins Family. The first was the $2.5 million donation for the Atkins Tennis Center, completed in 1991. The Atkins Tennis Center's creation sparked the beginning of the great national and Big Ten success the Illinois tennis programs enjoy today. One of the first in the country to house both indoor and outdoor courts with locker rooms and a pro shop, the facility was voted one of the most outstanding by the USTA in 1992, shortly after its dedication.