Players hit weight room, classes during summer.
June 29, 1999
This Week in Kentucky Football: June 28-July 11
Camps Completed, Coaches Preparing for Season: With summer camps completed, the UK coaching staff now turns its attention to preseason preparations.
Players in Summer School, Workouts: The eight-week summer school session began June 10. The majority of the players are in Lexington during the eight-week session in order to work out in the weight room, work summer jobs, and/or take summer school classes. The eight-week period 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 crews have completed the installation of structural steel and most of the concrete work on the upper concourses is complete. The aluminum seating is approximately 85 percent complete. Wall framing and drywall work continues on both ends. Precast concrete work has been completed. Work also has begun on the installation of the scoreboards and one scoreboard is in place.
Both ends of Commonwealth Stadium are being enclosed. The project will add about 10,000 seats, bringing capacity to approximately 68,000. 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 the stadium expansion on the internet site www.uky.edu/stadium. A camera has been mounted in the press box and is pointed toward the west (Nicholasville Road) end zone. Photographs are updated every five minutes.
John Soward of UK Computing Services handled the technical details of the stadium camera, with assistance provided by Russ Pear, UK Assistant Athletics Director for Facilities, and Chuck Ham of the UK Public Relations Office.
