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Featured
Facilities
• Blanchard Hall
• Billy Graham
Center
• Todd M. Beamer
Student Center
• Wade Center
• Edman Chapel
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Sports & Rec
Complex
• Pierce Chapel
• McAlister
Hall
• Westgate
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Athletic Facilities
Sports and Recreation Complex (King Arena and Chrouser Fitness Center)
 In 2000 Wheaton athletics moved into the new $15 million state-of-the-art Sports and Recreation Complex (SRC). The SRC features an 8,000 square foot weight room, three student recreational gyms, an elevated jogging track, a climbing wall, new "smart" classrooms and conference rooms, and a new physiology lab.
Included in the SRC are the new Eckert Recreation Center, the Chrouser Natatorium, and the King Arena. King Arena replaced Centennial Gymnasium as the home of Wheaton College basketball, volleyball and wrestling. The arena is not a different building but a renovation of Centennial Gymnasium, funded in large part by Leroy King.
The 2,650-seat King Arena is equipped with four new scoreboards, a new sound system, eight new basketball hoops, a new floor and ethernet connections at the scorer's table. It has seating on all four sides whereas Centennial Gymnasium only had two, and one side features chair-backed seats.
In addition to its usefulness for classes and athletics, the building, designed in the architectural style of the Anderson Commons dining hall and other buildings on campus, is well-suited for informal and formal gatherings. Back
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McCully
Field (Football)
Previously known as New Lawson Field, the field was renamed McCully Field in 1956, when a concrete grandstand with a seating capacity of 4,500 was added. The field was named in honor of former Wheaton football player Ed McCully as a tribute to his extraordinary bravery in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
McCully was former Wheaton football player and 1949 graduate of Wheaton College. Ed McCully and Jim Elliot served as missionaries to the fierce Auca Indians in the jungles of Ecuador. On January 3, 1956, these men landed their plane on a narrow strip of beach near the Auca territory. After building a tree house and establishing two-way radio contact with their wives, they had a brief encounter with the Auca Indian tribe. Two days later the team was found speared to death by this tribe on the beach not far from where they had landed. By the grace of God the story did not end there. Their wives continued the work their husbands had started and eventually led this same South American tribe to Christ.
Today McCully Field sports a natural turf field with state-of-the art irrigation, drainage, and seating for approximately 5,000 supporters. A concession area, restrooms and team meeting rooms are on the ends of the grandstand. The field also includes a newly installed visitors grandstand area. Crowning the home grandstand is a state-of-the-art pressbox facility. The facility includes two radio booths and seating for media, statisticians and other support staff. Coaches and video personnel from each team can witness the game from the privacy of enclosed booths, located on each side of the pressbox.
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East
McCully Field (Soccer)
The Wheaton College men's and women's soccer programs play their games in one of the finest facilities in all of the NCAA Division III. In addition to soccer some of Wheaton's intramural programs and club sports use the facility. The field, located in the southeastern corner of the campus, near the corner of President St. and College Ave., is of maximum regulation dimensions (120 yards by 75 yards) for soccer and is equipped with lights for nighttime competition.
Across from the newly renovated north-side bleachers, which seat 2,000 fans, are the team and press areas on the south side of the field. Both teams sit in covered dugouts.
East McCully Field is named in honor of Ed McCully, a member of Wheaton's class of 1949 and a football player and wrestler. In 1956, McCully was martyred by the Auca Indians while serving as a missionary in Ecuador.
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Leedy Field (Softball)
Ruth Leedy Field has been the home of the Wheaton College softball program since the late 1980's. Wheaton played softball games on a different portion of Leedy Field for a number of years, left for a local park and returned to Leedy Field around 1989. The park has seating for fans behind home plate and has covered dugouts for the competing teams.
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Tennis
Courts
Adjacent to the Sports and Recreation Complex are six tennis courts with lighting for night time play.
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