Queens University

Anyone heard any rumors on them starting a baseball program? Saw where they were building a field at their new facility.

 

Baseball is a "planned" sport at Queens. The field in is Phase II of the park development.

From the orginal annoucement of the sports complex,

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The new 59-acre complex off Tyvola Road, nearly four miles from Queens' campus in Myers Park, would house 11 of Queens' 16 varsity sports in NCAA Division II. Men's and women's soccer, tennis, lacrosse, track and cross-country and women's softball would practice and play there.

The plan goes to the county's Park and Recreation Commission tonight. Mecklenburg would continue to own the land but would lease it to the university. The county already had plans — but no money — to develop recreational athletic fields at Marion Diehl Park, said park planner Tyrelle Evans.

Under the proposal, the university would build a softball field, a field house, eight to 12 tennis courts, trails and a championship-style field for soccer, lacrosse and track.

The plan calls for a baseball field, even though Queens doesn't field a team now.

"Some of the design elements are to be phased in, including baseball," Murden said. "With 60 acres to play with, baseball would certainly serve our future purposes, and it would also serve the community's."".