The 140-square-foot field house, home to the academy’s cross country and track teams and women’s lacrosse team, contains a full-size track field and a retractable artificial 76,000-square-foot turf football field that floats on a bed of air blown out by fans in the floor. It also has a mammoth weight room, and several other state-of-the-art amenities. Maybe the most special item in the facility is the portrait of Brown when he graduated by famous artist Simmie Knox that hangs in the field house’s entryway.
“I hope that when young men and women of color, and all cadets or midshipmen at the Naval academy, when they walk through those doors and when they may have some difficult and trying times, then they can see that name and say, ‘I know it’s tough, but here is a person who persevered when times were even tougher,’” says C.J. Jordan, director of communications for Brown’s newly established foundation. “‘So if he can make it, then I surely can.’”
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