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title: Nearing Cole’s Next Goal
date: 2019-09-20T06:00:00-04:00
author: University of Maryland
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# Nearing Cole’s Next Goal

*September 20, 2019* — by [Maryland Today Staff](/author/maryland-today-staff)


> Practice Fields, Center for Brain Health and Human Performance, Entrepreneurship Space All to Come

*Cole Construction 48 1920x1080 0 — The indoor practice facility at Cole Field House was completed in summer 2017. It is used by numerous athletics teams and has hosted university events.*

Two outdoor practice fields are slated for completion this fall in the next step of Cole Field House’s transformation into a new campus hub at the intersection of research, innovation and sport.

Construction continues on the more than 300,000-square-foot iconic building, whose athletic facilities will include offices for football staff, a 20,000-square-foot weight room, a 4,000-square-foot cardio mezzanine, locker rooms for the football team and returning NFL alums, a two-level auditorium, dining facilities and a sports medicine area that all student-athletes will use, a recruiting room and a 3,000-square-foot patio that looks out onto Maryland Stadium.

In the latest collaboration between UMD and the University of Maryland, Baltimore through the University of Maryland Strategic Partnership: MPowering the State, Cole will house the Center for Brain Health and Human Performance. Research conducted there will improve disease diagnosis from cancer to age-related cognitive decline. Plans also include unparalleled multimodal imaging, research-focused sleep suites and next-generation DNA and RNA sequencing.

Cole Field House will also feature a signature space for entrepreneurship and innovation programs across campus.


**Topics:** [Campus & Community](https://today.umd.edu/tags/campus-community)


**Tags:** [Football](https://today.umd.edu/topic/football), [Health and Fitness](https://today.umd.edu/topic/health-and-fitness), [Research](https://today.umd.edu/topic/research)


**Units:** [Department of Intercollegiate Athletics](https://today.umd.edu/topic/department-intercollegiate-athletics)