Nodak Insurance Football Performance Complex

ADDRESS
1380 16th Ave. N.
Fargo, ND 58102

NDSU's new indoor practice facility, the Nodak Insurance Football Performance Complex, opened in October 2022. The entire cost of the $50 million building project was privately funded, including a lead gift from Nodak Insurance Company, which was awarded naming rights.

A state-of-the-art training facility for the national champion NDSU football program, the Nodak Insurance Football Performance Complex includes capacity for the women’s soccer, men’s and women’s golf, baseball and softball programs also affected by weather throughout the year.

The complex has two artificial turf fields – one indoors and one outdoors – on the site of the current practice fields south of the Sanford Health Athletic Complex. The indoor field is a full 120 yards long and 60 yards wide with a roof clearance of 72 feet at the peak.

The project’s first phase included construction of the indoor practice facility and outdoor field, which replaced the Dacotah Field Bubble. The second phase, the WE B Giving Foundation Bison Athletics Operations Center, includes a football locker room, meeting rooms, sports medicine facilities, equipment room, weight room and fueling station.

The indoor facility covers more than 117,000 square feet including the practice field, operations building and storage warehouse. There are camera decks on all sides, a second-floor viewing area in the Legacy Lounge, and a retractable netting system to accommodate multiple sports.

Seven overhead doors will open from the indoor facility onto the outdoor practice field for ease of transition during team practices, scoreboards and play clocks are available on both fields, and the outdoor field is equipped with an LED lighting system for evening practices.

The Nodak Insurance Football Performance Complex was designed locally by Foss Architects and Interiors of Fargo in collaboration with Crawford Architects of Kansas City, which recently designed football practice facilities for the Minnesota Vikings and Seattle Seahawks.