Penn State Sports Magazine
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Players bounded into the Lasch Build- ing's football locker room as if they were taking the field at Beaver Stadium for the season opener, leaping, cheering and high-stepping through the double doors into a fluorescent-blue world that looked like a futuristic night club. It was their first glimpse of the renovated facil- ity, and the project was a success judg- ing by their immediate reaction, and by the stream of ap- preciative tweets that followed. From Grant Haley: "This new locker room is truly amazing." From DaeSean Hamilton: "Huge thank you to [Sandy Barbour], president [Eric] Barron and all of our donors for our too dope locker room." And from Jason Cabinda: "HUGE THANK U to Pres. Barron and [Sandy Barbour] for the most LIT locker room I've seen in my life!!!!!!" Part of a $12 million renovation of FOOTBALL PSU unveils Lasch renovations 10) and Michigan State (55-16) last sea- son "shouldn't happen." But she also cited the lingering effect of the NCAA's scholarship reductions, which forced the Lions to compete with less than a full complement of 85 scholarship play- ers. The sanction-related impediments are beginning to subside, and even though the team still isn't expected to have a complete scholarship roster in 2016, Barbour said there are criteria that will allow her to assess the program's direc- tion. "It's about how we play in-game, it's about offensive improvement, it's about maintaining some of the momentum that we've had defensively, it's about continuing to recruit high-quality stu- dent-athletes, which I think we've done very, very well," Barbour said. "It's about maintaining that academic performance that we've seen, which has been phe- nomenal. It's about having our football student-athletes be great citizens on this campus, in this community and wherever they go. "I came here because all of those things are important to Penn State, not just one of them." – N.B. COMFORTS OF HOME The Nittany Lions' new football locker room is part of a larger overhaul of the Lasch Building. Pho- tos by Mark Selders/Penn State Athlet- ics