Thanks to a superb effort by Okland/Span Construction, these facilities were completed in record time. The first official practice at the Indoor Practice Facility was actually held on Monday, Oct. 27, 2003, just over a year from the groundbreaking.

Indoor Practice Facility
The IPF is 422 feet wide and 222 feet deep with a height of 86 feet at the center. The arched roof is visible throughout the valley as a new BYU icon. The IPF serves as an indoor practice arena for the football, soccer, golf, baseball, softball and a variety of other programs, including extramurals and intramurals. The facility is used about 50 percent of the time by the university for classes and intramurals, and the other 50 percent of the time by the varsity teams.

Among its features are two artificial turf fields, retractable goalposts on each end, a sideline staging facility for offensive linemen and four batting cages. The indoor surface is field turf and the building features four video platforms located 40 feet above the playing surface.

Student Athlete Building
The 126,300 square-foot SAB is home to Legacy Hall - a three-story museum/hall of fame celebrating more than 100 years of BYU Athletics. The SAB also houses the student-athlete academic center, a two-story strength and conditioning center, training facilities, an equipment room, conference rooms, offices for the football coaches and men's and women's athletic administrators, the Cougar Club, the football locker room and meeting rooms for the team. Legends Grille restaurant, the Cougar Fan Store, and Legacy Hall are areas where fans as well as athletes can congregate.

"The Student Athlete Center and the Indoor Practice Facility are second to none in helping students achieve excellence in academics and athletics," said BYU head football coach Gary Crowton. "In addition, these two facilities will serve as a valuable recruiting tool. I believe this complex will allow our program to continue recruiting at the highest level."

Legacy Hall
The newly-opened Hall is a museum that depicts the history of academic and athletic success at BYU. There is no admission fee.

Among the items featured in the Hall are:

• Ty Detmer's 1990 Heisman Trophy
• Steve Young's 1995 NFL MVP trophy and MVP trophy from the 1995 Super Bowl
• Mike Weir's golf bag used when he won the 2003 Masters
• Clay Brown's ball and jersey from his miracle 'Hail Mary' catch in the 1980 Holiday Bowl
• Danny Ainge's jersey and ball from his 1981 coast-to-coast drive against Notre Dame

There are 21 wall displays, 36 display cases and 13 interactive kiosks displaying unique memorabilia of former Cougar athletes. Some of the highlights include the BYU Hall of Fame, a historical timeline, first-team All-Americans, greatest moments in BYU football and basketball, and a display featuring the 1984 national Football Championship.

Legends Grille
Fans, coaches and athletes can view 11 plasma TV screens, a ticker tape with world-wide sports scores or view specialty events on a projection screen while catching a bite to eat. The two-level Legends Grille has a tasty menu. See more at www.byu.edu/legendsgrille.

Student-Athlete Academic Center
Five full-time advisers are on staff to cover the athletes from the 21 sports. Tutors and mentors work through these offices. Athletes have access to 42 computer stations, an interactive classroom, 10 small study areas and one large quiet room. Also on staff are a sports psychologist and a nutritionist. The hours of operation range from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Strength and Conditioning Center
Most of the Strength and Conditioning Center's equipment was custom built by Free Motion and is sponsored by Icon Heath and Fitness. Among the features are12 full power racks with platforms, seven half racks, three jerk racks, Sorinex hurricane racks, reverse hypers, Agaton Fitness Systems, an outdoor mondo plyometric warmup area, two super leg drive sleds, two different dumbbell areas, and a medicine ball wall. The first floor also has a nutrition area sponsored by Pharmanex.

The second floor is the speed development area has six Tomahawk spinning bikes and TVs, five Nordic Track incline trainers, three Versaclimbers, two Scifit upper body bikes, Woodway force treadmills, H/P Cosmos treadmills with Pneu Weight devices, vibratory boards, a step mill, a turfed agility drill area with resistance, and a testing area.

Training Facilities
Sponsored by Dynatronics, This area features a rehabilitation room and a hydro area with a cold pool, a hot tub with power jets and a treadmill pool with two cameras. Trainers provide electrical stimulation and ultra sound treatments as well as bikes, treadmills, and Cybex machines. There is a doctor's office, a shop for making casts, braces and mouthpieces and a storeroom.

Equipment and Locker Rooms
The 75-yard-long locker room is pattered after the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. There is also a special locker room for former BYU players who want to train in Provo during the off-season.