UWM SPORTS FAMILIAR TOP RECRUIT HAS PANTHERS EXCITED tying for a team high with nine 3-pointers. The coach’s son, Patrick Baldwin Jr., You might say the UWM men’s “This was a great way to see where I chose to play closer to home at UWM, basketball team had an offseason to was at physically,” Baldwin Jr. says. “Just turning down offers from some of the remember. getting that experience and coming out country’s top programs, including Duke, Milwaukee basketball entered the with gold put me in a terrific mindset Georgetown, North Carolina, Kentucky and summer brimming with confidence after coming into the season.” Wisconsin. He’s the highest-ranked recruit making a run to the Horizon League Another positive tournament sign for UWM semifinals in March. basketball should Two months later, be visible next to one of the top high the Klotsche Center school recruits in the when homecoming country committed weekend rolls around to the program, in November. instantly raising the Construction on Panthers’ national the new Orthopaedic profile. No wonder Hospital of the team is on track Wisconsin Center, to double its season which will house ticket memberships a state-of-the-art by the time the 2021practice facility, is 22 season tips off in scheduled to begin November. UWM coach Pat Baldwin (left) and the team´s world champion new recruit – his son, Patrick Baldwin Jr. in September and “I’m very excited be completed by Fall 2022. to ever sign with a Horizon League team. about our team because we have size, It all has UWM’s coach in the mood of a A sweet-shooting, 6-foot-10 forward, we have depth and we have guard play,” proud father, one he wants to share with Baldwin Jr. missed most of his senior coach Pat Baldwin says. “My hope is that alumni. “Come out and support Panther season at Sussex Hamilton High School we can play really fast and generate some basketball,” Baldwin Sr. says. “This is going because of an ankle injury. He returned excitement and score a lot of points, and to be a really fun and exciting year with to the court this summer for the USA then just bring a lot of energy to Panther some talented kids who are going to play Basketball under-19 team that won Arena and make our fans proud.” their hearts out for you.” gold medals at the World Cup in Latvia, The centerpiece of the incoming averaging 7.7 points, 5.0 rebounds and freshman class has a familiar name. – Genaro C. Armas
KLOTSCHE EXPANSION CONSTRUCTION BEGINNING Construction is set to start in Fall 2021 on a 16,000-square-foot expansion to the Klotsche Center and Pavilion. The building will be named after the Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, which donated $2.1 million in 2019 for the facility, and will be used primarily by the men’s and women’s basketball teams. The new building will feature a full-size basketball court, a basketball strength and conditioning center, a video room, an auxiliary sports medicine and treatment center, and a new Panther Athletics Hall of History. It’s scheduled to be completed in Fall 2022. – Genaro C. Armas
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