Texas Wesleyan
An artist's rendering of the Texas Wesleyan football field house.
Texas Wesleyan University took another step closer to realizing its vision for a football stadium on campus with the school’s announcement this week of a gift in the amount of $2.5 million from Moritz Dealerships.
The university adds that the field house at the stadium will be named in honor of Moritz Dealerships.
“The impact of previous philanthropy from Moritz Dealerships and the Moritz family has already been life-changing for many of our students,” says Frederick Slabach, president of Texas Wesleyan, in a statement. “John David and Leslie Moritz have a deeply held passion for helping young people and they have demonstrated this each year by providing scholarship support to Texas Wesleyan students. It is my honor to witness their generosity firsthand.”
In addition to sponsoring the annual Wesleyan 5K and providing scholarship support, the Moritz family also made a leadership-level gift to the Nick and Lou Martin University Center campaign in 2017.
The announcement arrives in the wake of last month’s news that university trustee Karen Cramer had pledged a gift of $5 million to the construction of the stadium.
The stadium will be named in Cramer’s honor, the school says.
The $16.5-million stadium project, which will be located a block north of E. Rosedale Street between Binkley Street and Nashville Avenue, will be built in three phases: 1. practice field and lighting; 2. NCAA-certified track, and 3. bleachers, press box, field house and concessions.
A stadium on campus has been in discussion since 2017, when football returned to the university after a 76-year hiatus. The Rams have been playing home games at the Fort Worth school district’s Farrington Field.
The Rams recently finished off their best season since returning to play, going 7-3 overall, including 4-0 in home games.