Wesley Brown Field House
| Full name | Wesley Brown Field House |
|---|---|
| Location |
United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 38°58′54″N 76°28′47″W / 38.98167°N 76.47972°WCoordinates: 38°58′54″N 76°28′47″W / 38.98167°N 76.47972°W |
| Owner | United States Navy |
| Operator | United States Naval Academy |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | March 25, 2006 |
| Opened | 2008 |
| Construction cost | $50.0 million |
| General contractor | Hensel Phelps Construction Company |
| Tenants | |
| Navy Midshipmen (PL) 2002– | |
The Wesley Brown Field House is a sports arena at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. It is located between the 7th Wing of Bancroft Hall and Santee Basin. The 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m2) facility houses physical education, varsity sports, club sports, and personal-fitness programs and equipment. It is home to the Midshipmen cross country and track and field teams, the sprint football team, the women’s lacrosse team, and sixteen club sports. It also serves as the practice space for the football and women's volleyball teams. There is also a centralized sports-medicine facility. The building has a total room area of 5,800 sq. ft., eight locker rooms, and 300 lockers.
The field house has a full-length, 76,000-square-foot (7,100 m2), retractable Magic Carpet AstroTurf football field. When the field is retracted, students can then use the 200-meter AstroTurf track with a Mondo track surface and hydraulically-controlled banked curves and three permanent basketball courts. In four to six hours, the indoor track-and-field can be changed to an indoor football practice field, including target goalposts for placekicking practice. The synthetic playing surface (with football-field yard-lines) is stored on a spool at the field house's south end. The surface is put in place by nine winches and an 18-port air-blower that makes the turf float across the field-house floor while being deployed and retracted.
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