Yordon Athletic Center
The $14-million NIU Academic and Athletic Performance Center, which is located at the north end zone, opened in August 2007. At a press conference in conjunction with the annual Northern Illinois Spring Football Game, first-year Athletics Director Jim Phillips announced on April 23, 2005, that Huskie Intercollegiate Athletics would embark on the largest capital project in its history. NIU began breaking ground for the new all-purpose facility in the fall of 2006 and was finished in August 2007.
Inside the Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Center is a new 3,150 sq ft (293 m2) football locker room with a 780 sq ft (72 m2) gathering area, a 12,505 sq ft (1,161.8 m2) strength and conditioning center (largest in the MAC), an academic support center, athletic training room with rehab pools, a 150-seat meeting room, video editing room, all 10 coaches' offices, football equipment room, coaches' locker room, and state-of-the-art computer classrooms for student-athletes.
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