Tuesday, October 8, 2024
By Eliot Javers
Donors and board members of the Plover Whiting Youth Athletics broke ground Aug. 5 for a new addition at the Woyak Sports Complex in Plover.
The McCain Foods Hall of Fame Pavilion is part of a $1.3 million renovation project at the baseball and softball fields on Cedar Drive.
Andrew Halverson, executive vice president of Ellis Construction, talked about what people can expect when the pavilion is finished being constructed.
“It’s going to be a two story building which will prevent exposure to inclement weather,” Halverson said. “More importantly, it will provide fully handicap accessible viewing of two different fields for various sporting events on any given day.”
Construction will include renovations to dugouts and batting cages. The project is expected to be finished in May 2025.
Plover Area Convention and Visitor’s Bureau Executive Director Malorie Paine talked about how important youth sports are in the village.
“Anywhere you walk in the Plover area, you’re going to see a Plover Whiting Youth Athletics shirt, you’re going to see some sort of PWYA apparel and I just think that speaks to the volumes to just how many youth are impacted every year from or through Plover Whiting Youth Athletics,” Paine said.
McCain securted the naming rights to the pavillion after its employees presented a $100,000 check to the PWYA.
