New $14.9 million sports complex planned behind Clovis Community College

Behind Clovis Community College, a vacant corner at Willow and Behymer is being converted into the ISE Diamond L.I.F.E. Sports Complex, a $14.9 million project that district leaders say is meant to serve far more than one team. The new venue is being built on the northeast corner of the campus in north Fresno, turning one of the area’s last large undeveloped parcels into a public-facing athletics site.

The State Center Community College District says the complex will include a 9-lane all-weather track, a soccer field, jumps, pole vaults, a scoreboard and home bleachers with a press box. A team room building will add locker rooms with restrooms and showers, public restrooms, an athletic training room and offices. Clovis Community College says the facility is being designed to host state-championship-caliber events, giving the school a venue that can support competition at a much higher level than a typical practice field.

Construction is underway after the district awarded the project to Quiring General, LLC at its June 3, 2025 board meeting. Groundbreaking followed on October 8, 2025. The funding mix includes $10.69 million in campus money, $3.5 million from a bond and a $500,000 donation from Jami Hamel De La Cerda, founder and CEO of Diamond Learning Center, Inc., whose gift secured naming rights for the complex.

For families, coaches and student-athletes across Fresno County, the key question is who gets to use it. The district and college are pitching the site as a multi-use facility for college sports, high school events and community groups, not just Clovis Community College athletics. That broader use matters in a region where quality track and field and soccer space is often in short supply, especially for youth programs and school calendars crowded with tournaments, meets and graduation-season events.

Clovis Community College says it serves nearly 14,000 students, and the district identifies it as the 113th campus in California’s community college system. The sports complex is one piece of a larger Measure C buildout that also includes the Kinesiology & Wellness Center and other campus facilities, signaling that the Willow, Shepherd and International corridor is being reshaped around education and recreation. For north Fresno and the Clovis border, the project is more than a new field: it is a new civic venue that will affect traffic, parking, neighborhood activity and the way local sports are scheduled for years to come.