NWU Breaks Ground on Baseball and Softball Complex

A late August groundbreaking ceremony marked the official start of construction of the Sandhills Global Youth Complex near Oak Lake Park in Lincoln. The complex will be the new home for Nebraska Wesleyan University baseball and softball teams beginning spring 2025.

President Darrin Good said, "This new home for Prairie Wolves baseball and softball will match the excellence that we exude in our academics and in our campus life—including our fantastic athletic programs."

Nebraska Wesleyan's championship stadiums will have covered seating, batting cages, lights, artificial turf fields and will be used exclusively by NWU teams during the spring baseball and softball seasons. Sandhills Global Youth Complex will have eight turfed baseball/softball fields in total.

As part of the project, NWU baseball and softball teams will partner with local community organizations to provide programming that will introduce baseball and softball to youth who have not had exposure or access to the sport.

"Service is a core part of our ethos at Nebraska Wesleyan—it’s in our DNA," said Good. "Just like we create impactful experiences for our students at Nebraska Wesleyan, we will create impactful experiences for local youth that go beyond the ball game and instill skills that will serve them for a lifetime."