Technology in place for new Georgia Tech Student-Athlete Performance Center

Georgia Tech athletics held a ceremony next to the ongoing construction of Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center at Bobby Dodd Stadium.

Tech president Angel Cabrera, Tech football coach Brent Key, former Tech basketball star Brian Oliver from DPR Construction and Fanning were among the attendees who all wrote their signature on the final steel beam for the building scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2026.

Located in the northeast corner of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, the Fanning Center was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in April 2022, and is being constructed on the footprint of the former Edge/Rice Center. The 100,000-square-foot facility will serve as a state-of-the-art hub for Georgia Tech student-athletes, with areas dedicated to strength and conditioning, sports medicine (including mental health services) and nutrition, as well as expanded and enhanced meeting and office space exclusive to Georgia Tech football.

The Fanning Center will also be equipped with the Institute’s first-ever sports science lab, which will use pro-model motion tracking to capture student-athletes’ performance data that will feed into an in-house data analytics office for performance tracking and analysis.

The building is named in honor of Georgia Tech alumnus Dr. Thomas A. Fanning, who holds three degrees from Georgia Tech (B.S. industrial management, M.S. industrial management, honorary Ph.D.) and was a visionary leader in the energy industry during his 43-year career with the Southern Company, which included serving as president and chief executive officer from 2010-23.