A proposed medical office building currently under a feasibility study could house a University-run sports medicine center, said Lance Rose, Centre Community Hospital's executive director.

"Right now (the medical office building) is nothing more than a proposal," Rose said. The medical office building would also contain offices for doctors who currently have overcrowded offices downtown, Rose said.

The study, being conducted by Marshall, Erdman, and Associates of West Virginia, will require three months to complete, said William Hetrick, director of development and systems. It will produce a preliminary construction plan, preliminary programming for building use and an economic feasibility study, Hetrick said.

The $25,000 study will be paid for by a State College physicians group and Centre Community Hospital, Rose said. The University offered financial assistance for the study, but the physicians group felt that they and the hospital should fund it, Rose said.

Some possible sites for the building include both University-owned and hospital-owned land located adjacent to the hospital, Rose said. Hetrick said there would be definite advantages to having the building near the hospital.

Hetrick said the University would use approximately one-quarter to one-third of the building for a sports medicine center. The sports medicine center would house a variety of different facilities and would serve everyone in the community, Hetrick said.

Part of the center will be used to treat injuries of the University's team athletes, Hetrick said.

But Hetrick stressed that the building, as well as the sports medicine center, is "strictly a private enterprise and not a University building." The University would participate in sharing in construction and maintenance, he said.

Hetrick said construction of the building could begin late in 1989 if the Marshall Erdman report is accepted and everything else goes well. However, Hetrick said, it is still to early to predict exactly what will happen.