June 29, 1999
This Week in Kentucky Football: June 28-July 11
Camps Completed, Coaches Preparing for Season: With summer campscompleted, the UK coaching staff now turns its attention to preseasonpreparations.
Players in Summer School, Workouts: The eight-week summer schoolsession began June 10. The majority of the players are in Lexingtonduring the eight-week session in order to work out in the weight room,work summer jobs, and/or take summer school classes. The eight-weekperiod ends on August 5.
Kentucky Football Preseason Calendar:
July 27-29 SEC Football Media Days in Birmingham; Coach Hal Mumme, Jeff Snedegar, and Anthony White represent UK on Thursday, July 29 Sun. Aug. 8 Freshmen report Tues. Aug. 10 First freshman practice (morning) Wed. Aug. 11 Two freshman practices; veterans report Fri. Aug. 13 Team practices begin Sun. Aug. 15 Fans' Day Fri. Aug. 20 Kickoff Luncheon Sat. Sept. 4 Louisville at Kentucky
Commonwealth Stadium Construction Update: Construction crewshave completed the installation of structural steel and most of theconcrete work on the upper concourses is complete. The aluminum seatingis approximately 85 percent complete. Wall framing and drywall workcontinues on both ends. Precast concrete work has been completed. Workalso has begun on the installation of the scoreboards and one scoreboardis in place.
Both ends of Commonwealth Stadium are being enclosed. Theproject will add about 10,000 seats, bringing capacity to approximately68,000. Up to $27.6 million may be spent on the stadium expansion,which is expected to be ready for the opening of the 1999 season.
Watch the Stadium Construction: Fans may view photographs of thestadium expansion on the internet site www.uky.edu/stadium. A camerahas been mounted in the press box and is pointed toward the west(Nicholasville Road) end zone. Photographs are updated every fiveminutes.
John Soward of UK Computing Services handled the technicaldetails of the stadium camera, with assistance provided by Russ Pear, UKAssistant Athletics Director for Facilities, and Chuck Ham of the UKPublic Relations Office.
