Baseball Officially Opens Indoor Hitting Facility
1/14/2015 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
TUSACLOOSA, Ala. - The Alabama baseball team officially opened the team's hitting facility on Wednesday afternoon. The brand-new structure provides the team with an indoor training area that allows for year-round preparation for current and former players.
The building features four retractable, 20-foot high hitting bays, which allow the field space to serve multiple purposes, including training focused on hitting, pitching or fielding. The inside is also well-lit, with LED lighting throughout for training at any hour. Regardless of temperature, the fully air conditioned building allows the team to manage indoor temperatures no matter what is going on with the outside conditions. Also inside the new structure, a state-of-the-art sound system is wired throughout the complex to help with music during training or video analysis. For the players to stay fit before and after practice, the building has a weight room and fitness area with free weights and benches for workouts.
The hitting facility is the first step of Alabama baseball's structural transformation. The current renovation of Sewell-Thomas Stadium is an on-going project that is scheduled for completion and use at the start of the 2016 Alabama baseball season.
The Crimson Tide will make the Hoover Metropolitan Stadium home for a majority of the team's home games in 2015. Alabama will kick off regular-season play on Friday, Feb. 13, at 6:30 p.m. CT as the Tide hosts the University of Maryland Eastern Shore for a three-game, weekend series inside the Met.
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