Fans angry at Wisconsin's 'slap in the face' choice to remove bricks advertised as permanent
TODD D. MILEWSKI
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The Camp Randall Sports Center is due to be demolished in the final months of 2024 to make way for Wisconsin's new indoor practice facility. Here's a look inside taken on July 15, 2024.
University of Wisconsin fans who thought the personalized bricks they bought over the last three decades were going to be part of a permanent display have criticized the athletic department for going a different direction.
Photos of Wisconsin's Shell before it makes way for a new practice facility
Big Ten Conference banners hang on a wall inside the UW–Madison's Camp Randall Sports Center, commonly known as the Shell.
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The University of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame is on an outside wall of the Camp Randall Sports Center, which is set for demolition later in 2024.
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Patrick Herb, Assistant Athletic Director of Strategic Communications for UW–Madison, walks through UW’s Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center, commonly known as “The Shell."
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The main entrance lobby for UW–Madison's Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center, commonly known as “The Shell."
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A thin wood wall separates two components of the Camp Randall Sports Center. At left is the center’s former ice hockey facility, and at right is a training area for the university’s track and field team.
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Former ice skate storage shelves share a wall inside the Camp Randall Sports Center.
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Elements of a locker room once used by the Edgewood High School hockey team — and the Badgers women's hockey team before it — remain inside the Camp Randall Sports Center.
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Big Ten Conference banners hang on a wall inside the Camp Randall Sports Center.
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Sponsorship bricks share a walkway outside the Camp Randall Sports Center.
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The Camp Randall Sports Center was built between 1954 and 1956 and is scheduled for demolition to make way for Wisconsin's new indoor practice facility.
