East Central Community College Opens Football Operations Center

DECATUR, MS – East Central Community College recently officially opened its new Warrior Hall football operations center the campus in Decatur, MS. The $2.6-million, 12,300-square-foot facility is located just outside the north end zone of Warrior Field at Bailey Stadium.

Warrior Hall at East Central Community College

Warrior Hall contains locker rooms for players and for coaches, a team meeting room, position conference rooms, coaches’ offices, an equipment room, a players’ lounge and a laundry room. It also houses a state-of-the-art training room with hydrotherapy pool to be used by student-athletes in all nine varsity sports at the college.

Offices, conference rooms, meeting rooms, the Hall of Champions, the locker room and individual lockers, the equipment room, the training room, the hydrotherapy pool, the coaches’ locker room and the main team meeting room and the chairs in that room were among the items in Warrior Hall sponsored by donors.

The architect for Warrior Hall was Eley Guild Hardy Architects of Biloxi. The contractor was J&J Contractors Inc. of Collinsville.

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