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Baylor Announces Gift For Indoor Football Practice Facility

WACO - The Baylor University Board of Regents announced Friday that the university has received a significant naming gift for the Jay and Jenny Allison Indoor Football Practice Facility, which will complete the Alwin O. and Dorothy Highers Athletic Complex.

"The Jay and Jenny Allison Indoor Football Practice Facility will complete the Highers Athletics Complex in first class fashion and afford Coach Briles, his staff and student-athletes one of the best indoor practice facilities in the Big 12 and nation," McCaw said. "I am grateful to the Board of Regents and Interim President Garland for the strong support that they afford Baylor Athletics and our football program."

The new $12.1 million facility, which will be constructed with private funds, will be located adjacent to the two natural grass practice fields on the marina side of the Highers Athletics Complex and will feature a 100-yard field with a synthetic playing surface. The building's façade will be an attractive brick, consistent with the look of other Baylor athletics facilities. With the Allison's gift, Baylor will become the 10th Big 12 Conference program to construct an indoor football facility.

The Jay and Jenny Allison Football Practice Facility is part of the $46.2 million Highers Athletics Complex, a cornerstone in Baylor Athletics' five-year, $90 million Victory With Integrity campaign which was launched in February 2005. To date, more than $65 million has been raised through the campaign in capital, endowment and annual support.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the Jay and Jenny Allison Indoor Football Practice Facility will be held in November, and the facility is slated for completion by the start of preseason camp next August.