GT Sports to launch first ever Girls Sports Complex - in Indiana

GT Sports Ventures announces its newest project: the first sports and leadership complex uniquely designed for female athletes. " In my years developing baseball academies for Cal Ripken baseball, I saw the value and opportunity in youth sports on a wider basis," said GTSV founder Glenn Tilley. "My daughter Jordan was beginning her athletic career at the same time and I saw firsthand the lack of facilities and opportunities for the girls. The new campus is our answer to that."

The plan is to develop more than 150 acres adjacent to the Fair Oaks Farms family agri-resort in Newton County, Indiana. "I had explored this site while I was with the Ripken company, and I thought it would be a good fit in many ways," said Tilley.

Current plans are to build over 300,000 square feet of interior facilities for training, tournament play, players loungers, locker-rooms, classrooms, and more. "We want to find women to do the design for the girls, to service their unique requirements, rather than the previous norm which was to use the men's facilites." Outdoors, GTSV plans to build 12 full size rectangular fields, as well as a state of the art softball complex. "To our knowledge this has never been done before. And what better place to build the first girls sport complex than in the state of Indiana, the birthplace of Title IX, which gave rise and opportunity to the female athletes today" said Tilley.

GTSV projects the project to be built in three phases with a total cost currently estimated at 90 million dollars. Tilley says "We are hoping for some sort or public/private funding as the campus will benefit the local economy in many significant ways"

For more information contact:

Lou Tilley at Lou@GTSportsVentures.com