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Due to security restrictions in place, only vehicles with a Department of Defense sticker on them will be allowed to drive onto the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy for ALL events. ALL VISITORS ARE REQUIRED to either park downtown and walk-in through the Visitors Center and its security checkpoint at Gate One, or else park at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium ($5. per vehicle) and ride the free shuttle bus to and from The Yard. Please CLICK HERE for more directions to the Stadium parking lot and CLICK HERE for further information for visitors and on access to the Naval Academy.
IN THE NEWS:
Built facing the scenic Severn River, The Wesley A. Brown Field House is a 140,000-square-foot multi-function athletic facility that serves as the new indoor football practice facility and the home for the men's and women's track & field programs.
The facility boasts a unique combination of a 76,000-square-foot retractable Magic Carpet Astroturf system and a Mondo track surface with hydraulically controlled banked curves.
In a matter of four to six hours, a full indoor track and field setup can be converted into an indoor football practice facility complete with target goalposts for placekicking practice. The football-lined synthetic playing surface is stored on a spool at the south end of the field house and deployed by a combination of nine winches and an 18-port distributed air blower system that causes the turf to float across the floor surface as it is deployed and retracted.
State-of-the-art weight training and sports medicine facilities, as well as equipment storage areas round out this newest addition to the Navy athletics arsenal.
The facility is named after Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, USN (ret.), the first African American midshipman to graduate from the United States Naval Academy in 1949.
Building facts:
| Size: | 140,000 sq ft |
| Turf area: | 76,000 sq ft |
| Weight room area: | 5800 sq ft |
| Locker rooms: | 8 |
| Lockers: | 300 |
