{"id":90138,"date":"2023-11-07T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T19:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=90138"},"modified":"2023-11-10T15:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T15:21:58","slug":"soloviev-basketball-practice-facility-officially-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2023\/11\/soloviev-basketball-practice-facility-officially-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"URI officially opens Soloviev Basketball Practice Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With appropriate fanfare\u2014and even an impromptu game of HORSE between Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee and URI President Marc Parlange\u2014the University of Rhode Island officially opened the Soloviev Basketball Practice Facility during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, Nov. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to a generous lead gift from Stefan Soloviev and the Solow Art and Architecture Foundation, URI\u2019s former West Gymnasium was transformed into a new high-tech practice facility for the URI men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball programs that Athletic Director Thorr Bjorn described as \u201ca true game-changer\u201d for URI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gov. McKee joined President Parlange, Board of Trustees member Tom Ryan, Bjorn, men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball head coaches Archie Miller and Tammi Reiss, Rhody the Ram, and several student-athletes and cheer squad members for the official ribbon cutting for the nearly $8 million center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cInvesting in URI both academically and athletically is key,\u201d McKee said, while also discussing the $65.8 million in Rhode Island Capital Plan funding included in the 2024 state budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new, state-of-the-art facility features one full-sized basketball court and two half-sized courts, along with an advanced sound and lighting system, that will provide the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams with more court time, scheduling flexibility, and a facility that rivals some of the nation\u2019s best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        With appropriate fanfare\u2014and even an impromptu game of HORSE between Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee and URI President Marc Parlange\u2014the University of Rhode Island officially opened the Soloviev Basketball Practice Facility during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Monday, Nov. 6. Thanks to a generous lead gift from Stefan Soloviev and the Solow Art and Architecture Foundation, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":90157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90138"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90228,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90138\/revisions\/90228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}