INTERCOLLEGIATE
ATHLETICS Facilities
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| INDIANA
STATE UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL STADIUM
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| Memorial
Stadium is the home of the Indiana State football program.
The facility, a former minor league baseball ballpark,
is one of the few Division 1-AA football stadiums in
the country with an AstroPlay artifical playing surface,
which was installed prior to the 2001 season. Indiana
State, in 1967, was the first university in the world
to own and maintain outdoor use of an artificial playing
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| INDIANA
STATE UNIVERSITY SOCCER COMPLEX |
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newest addition to the Sycamores’ athletic facilities
is the Indiana State Soccer Complex. This facility
consists of two separate natural-grass playing surfaces.
One field serves as a practice field, while the main
field, serves as the Sycamores’ gameday facility. |
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| LAVERN
GIBSON CHAMPIONSHIP CROSS COUNTRY COURSE |
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LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course at
the Wasbah Family Sports Center was dedicated on October
17, 1997. The land for the course was donated by LaVern
Gibson for the development of the facility. Indiana
State and Boston Celtic basketball star Larry Bird
made a donation to the facility in honor of his father,
Joe Bird, and the donation was matched by Max and Greg
Gibson in the name of their father and grandfather
respectively. The 240 acres of land is a reclaimed
coal mine and includes the cross country course, softball,
soccer and football fields and a building. The indoor
facility houses two fullsize basketball courts, lockerrooms
and a senior citizen center. The facility is just east
of the Hulman Regional Airport in eastern Vigo County. |
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