The John Mellencamp Pavilion is the primary indoor athletics training facility of the

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's football program. It was dedicated on April 12, 1996, following a donation of $1.5 million from singer-songwriter

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, to facilitate the project. The indoor practice facility contains a regulation-sized football field, featuring a Sportexe Momentum 41 artificial surface which was installed in 2007. The field can also accommodate field hockey, soccer, baseball, softball and golf. The $6.5 million 96,129-square-foot (8,900 m²) training facility was financed through donations and pledges from local area alumni, businesses and philanthropists including Mellencamp and

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. Ratio Architects of Indianapolis was the primary architect firm for the building with Weddle Brothers Construction Company facilitating its construction. Mellencamp Pavilion now exceeds more than to include a meeting room, two offices, a training room, a full kitchen and 8,000 square-feet (743 m²) of storage. The building also includes two full side-by-side, outdoor grass fields which are utilized by the football team for outdoor practices. The fields are located directly west of the training facility and approximately north of Memorial Stadium; the fields are accessible from the stadium, via a tunnel. While the facility is not open to the public, it has previously been used for events including banquets, private events and staging for graduation ceremonies of

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students.

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