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The new locker room will have sleeping pods, a nutrition counter and a larger players\u2019 lounge. (Some coaches gave up office space.) \u201cThis is a big thing in recruiting,\u201d Gayle says. \u201cSome students coming in would mention the topnotch facilities at other universities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dwain is managing partner at Pareto Consulting and Gayle retired from Duke Energy as senior vice president. Gayle notes that the new locker room will have a salon area with space for hair appliances and make-up application, something she learned was important to the players. \u201cAfter they are running out there for 40 minutes,\u201d she says, \u201cthey come back and they want to look nice.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n
Dwain Lanier \u201979 and his wife, Gayle Lanier \u201982, have been fans of Wolfpack women\u2019s basketball for decades. Dwain was a freshman during Kay Yow\u2019s first year, when the team played in Carmichael Gym. \u201cI was in there a lot and I stayed around to watch them play,\u201d he says. \u201cI was hooked.\u201d He met his future wife in a volleyball class in Carmichael, and they attended games together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, the women\u2019s team is long gone from Carmichael Gym and plays in a newly renovated Reynolds Coliseum. But one part of the Old Barn had remained somewhat outdated\u2009\u2014\u2009the team\u2019s locker room. The Laniers have given $250,000 toward a renovation and expansion of the space, expected to be complete before summer 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Laniers know about the team\u2019s needs firsthand\u2009\u2014\u2009they\u2019ve hosted players and staff at their Raleigh home for dinners that included s\u2019mores around a fire pit. \u201cIt gives us the opportunity to get to know the young ladies one on one,\u201d Gayle says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new locker room will have sleeping pods, a nutrition counter and a larger players\u2019 lounge. (Some coaches gave up office space.) \u201cThis is a big thing in recruiting,\u201d Gayle says. \u201cSome students coming in would mention the topnotch facilities at other universities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dwain is managing partner at Pareto Consulting and Gayle retired from Duke Energy as senior vice president. Gayle notes that the new locker room will have a salon area with space for hair appliances and make-up application, something she learned was important to the players. \u201cAfter they are running out there for 40 minutes,\u201d she says, \u201cthey come back and they want to look nice.\u201d <\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wolfpack family commits to sprucing up the locker room for women\u2019s basketball players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":3727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"views\/single-immersive.blade.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-immersive-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"backgroundColor\":\"gray_600\",\"subtitle\":\"Wolfpack family commits to sprucing up the locker room for women\u2019s basketball players. \",\"caption\":\"Photographs courtesy of NC State Athletics.\",\"displayCategoryID\":646}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[200,376,379,428,464,903,924,983,989],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newswire","category-stories","tag-carmichael-gym","tag-duke-energy","tag-dwain-lanier","tag-facilities","tag-gayle-lanier","tag-old-barn","tag-pareto-consulting","tag-recruiting","tag-reynolds-coliseum"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}