The brand new football locker room funded by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was officially revealed Wednesday at the University of Cal-Berkeley.
Rodgers made a seven-figure donation to the athletic department in June.
The Cal football team released footage of players seeing the new locker room for the first time and a thank you message from coach Justin Wilcox.
“Aaron, just wanted to say thanks, man. The guys love it. We appreciate you, and best of luck this season. Go Pack, and Go Bears!” Wilcox said.
Rodgers earmarked the money for renovations to the locker room and to set up the Aaron Rodgers Football Scholarship, which will be awarded to a junior college transfer every season.
Rodgers, a transfer from Butte College and a member of the Cal teams in 2003 and 2004, believes the new locker room will help the school better compete for top recruits in the Pac-12.
“This helps out with the locker room because there’s some other schools in the Pac-12 now that really have some big-time money behind them and it makes it a little more difficult to recruit some of those kids who are choosing between a Cal and a Stanford and an Oregon – well, not Stanford really, but maybe a Washington. It just gives us a chance,” Rodgers said, via Jason Wilde of the Wisconsin State Journal.
Wilcox, Cal’s third-year head coach, was a linebackers coach at the school while Rodgers was the starting quarterback.
