Simply incredible.
Take a look at our facilities vision 👉 https://t.co/mhS7Ge7pQt#ChargeOn pic.twitter.com/8qpWEYTcv2
— UCF Knights (@UCFKnights) February 27, 2017
UCF donor Kenneth Dixon’s recent $5M gift to the athletic department was the "single largest cash donation ever to the school" and has led UCF to "name a 95-acre lot after the real estate mogul titled the Kenneth G. Dixon athletic village," according to Shannon Green of the ORLANDO SENTINEL. Dixon "hopes to be a financial evangelist of sorts as school leaders work to secure funds to complete the athletic village vision within the next few years." Dixon said of UCF, “We’re not a top 25 sports program, but we should be." The village will "feature new facility innovation for the athletic department, including a new leisure center for athletes, a nutrition center and an athletics headquarters office that will sit between the current football offices and field house." Dixon’s donation brought the school to just over $10M in "total contributions and the Knights need to raise" $25M more to "complete the village" (
). NBCSPORTS.com's Kevin McGuire noted among those upgrades will be an "expansion to the school’s baseball stadium and basketball facility, as well as a better atmosphere outside the football stadium for fans" (
).
