LOS ANGELES – USC broke ground Thursday on the Bloom Football Performance Center, following the announcement of a $50 million gift from the Ronald H. Bloom family.
A state-of-the-art training facility, the Bloom Football Performance Center will serve as the new home of Trojan Football and allow USC Athletics to reimagine the John McKay Center to best serve its entire student-athlete population. It is also the centerpiece of the Athletics West capital projects, which include the construction of a new stadium for USC Baseball at Dedeaux Field and a golf program practice area.
To date, five Cornerstone gifts of $10 million or more have lifted the fundraising total for the Athletics West projects to $157 million. These generous contributions include gifts from the Bloom Family, the Argyros Family Foundation, Robert and Perri Bishop, the Chad and Cari Peets Family, and others. In total, more than 30 contributors have helped push USC past 75% of the project's $200 million fundraising goal.
The Bloom Football Performance Center, scheduled to open in summer 2026, includes two full-length outdoor practice fields – one turf and one natural grass – and a three-story building featuring state-of-the-art spaces dedicated to helping USC's student-athletes reach their fullest potential in all aspects of life.
At more than 160,000 square feet, the facility more than doubles the total square footage for the football program. The lobby will showcase USC's 11 national championships and eight Heisman Trophies – the most of any program in the country – and will include a space honoring the Trojans' 176 All-Americans.
The first floor will house an expanded and best-in-class locker room and players' lounge, with additional state-of-the-art spaces for sports medicine, nutrition, recovery, sports science, and a weight room with direct access to the turf field. The second floor will include a technologically-enhanced walk-through room, a new team meeting room, and position meetings rooms, as well as creative media and branding suites, an NFL alumni locker room, a space for NFL scouts, and a recruiting terrace overlooking the practice fields.
USC broke ground Thursday on the Bloom Football Performance Center, following the announcement of a $50 million gift from the Ronald H. Bloom family.
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