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Among other things, the renovated Romano Gym will have your back

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published December 1, 2017 at 12:40 PM CST

If you were last in UMD's Romano Gymnasium, oh, say, around 1987 or so ... nothing much has changed.

But it's about to.

Thanks to money from Higher Education Asset Preservation and Renewal (HEAPR) funding, University funding and donors, Phase 1 is already complete (a new video board costing "hundreds of thousands of dollars").

New flooring, climate control, a VIP suite, bleacher seats with backs on them and more are all part of the phases yet to come as UMD Athletics gets to work raising the remaining $2 million dollars to complete the building's facelift.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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