Update Pictures from Ohio State Volleyball’s New Covelli Arena

Last week, the Ohio State men’s and women’s volleyball team got a tour of the mid-construction Covelli Arena, which will serve as the team’s new home beginning in the spring of 2019. The 3,700 seat arena, which is running a cost of $30 million, will include new coaches’ offices and player locker rooms for both the men’s and women’s volleyball teams, fencing teams, gymnastics teams, and wrestling team.

• See more about the new Covelli Arena here.

Originally slated to be open this year, Ohio State now plans to move into the arena in April 2019 instead – meaning that both teams will play their entire 2018-2019 seasons in the St. John Arena. At over 13,000 seats, St. John Arena holds roughly 10x the average per-game attendance for the Ohio State women’s team last season. The move to the Covelli Arena should create a more intimate and intense space for competition.

The shell of the arena is basically complete, and the foundation for the higher rows (of presumably non-retractable seating) can also be seen, giving a sense of scale to the facility.

See pictures and videos from inside the arena taken by both teams below.

🚨Covelli Update 🚨
Today we got to walk around our new arena and we are in awe ❤️We can't wait to move into this state-of-the-art facility in Spring of 2019 pic.twitter.com/pNb62wvZ84

— Ohio State Women's Volleyball (@OhioStateWVB) June 28, 2018

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Amazing tour of @ohiostatemvb’s future home, Covelli Arena. Grateful to work w/ people who bring this level of support to our guys & program. #GoBucks!

A post shared by Coach_KJB (@coach_kjb) on Jun 22, 2018 at 6:05pm PDT

🚨Covelli Update 🚨
Today we got to walk around our new arena and we are in awe ❤️We can't wait to move into this state-of-the-art facility in Spring of 2019 pic.twitter.com/CpJ1J6puKP

— Ohio State Women's Volleyball (@OhioStateWVB) June 28, 2018