New home of Mulerider Baseball takes shape

Construction is underway for an expansion of the Southern Arkansas University baseball stadium. The project includes an on-site locker room, coaches’ offices, concession stand and press box. The new facilities will enhance the educational experiences of the University’s student athletes while bringing the stadium up to the quality of a successful NCAA Division II baseball program.

Although some work has been completed at the stadium in the past, the new expansion will allow for services that are not presently available. The former facility consisted of a concession stand and a one-room office for all coaches that doubled as the press box during the baseball season. There was no locker room for the baseball team.

A new state-of-the-art score board will also be installed at the field.

The improvements will cost an estimated $1 million, and the University has received a $500,000 matching grant from the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation. Project funds are being raised from private donors through the Southern Arkansas University Foundation.

Several naming opportunities still remain, and there is still time to add your name as a member of the  Goodheart Society. Click here for more information on the Goodheart Society and for a current list of Members. Please call 870-235-4078 for more information on the opportunities to support Mulerider Baseball or to invest in  Mulerider Baseball and this facility click the Make a Gift button located at the top of this page .   Construction is expected to be completed in spring 2011.

For live construction progress, click below.

Mulerider Baseball Stadium

2010 SAU Foundation Honors Dinner

The SAU Foundation Honor Societies Dinner will be held on Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Social and informal art exhibit will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Center.

Dinner will follow at 7:15 p.m.

Invitations for this event have been sent.

Please RSVP by November 1, 2010 by calling 870-235-4078 or emailing mjbismark@saumag.edu.

First Recipient of Ivan Smith Furniture Scholarship

Gloria and Ivan Smith, Jr. stand with Allyssa Rolen, center,  the first recipient of the Ivan Smith Furniture Scholarship at Southern Arkansas University.  Rolen is a freshman accounting major from Taylor. The Smiths first met Allyssa at the grand opening of the new Ivan Smith Furniture location in Magnolia.