The Cadet Field House is considered one of the top athletic facilities in the country. This multi-purpose facility, built in 1968, houses the indoor track, basketball arena, and ice hockey rink for intercollegiate sports. The indoor track area seats 1,000 for home track meets.

The track is a full-pour polyurethane surface (resurfaced in 1995 by Martin Surfacing), 268m (6 laps/mile), with eight lanes on the straightaway and six lanes on the oval. Inside the oval is an astroturf surface that includes polyurethane runways for the pole vault and horizontal jumps and a synthetic rubber approach and take-off area for the high jump, along with a throwing cage. For track meets, the field house is equipped with a full-size Daktronics track scoreboard and message center along with event-specific AAE field event scoreboards, and an Omega Hawkeye computerized timing system.

The instrumentation and method used for measuring the throws were developed and used by Leica for the 1996 Olympic Games. The highly accurate survey instrument measures electronically the distance from the ring to the marked position of the throw. The instrument measures to the exact millimeter, but rounds the distance to the next lower centimeter. The instrument records the measurement along with the coordinates of the marked position and the time of the throw, and sends the result by radio to the judges.

In July 1997, the Air Force Academy's Class of 1976 commissioned regional artist Michael Esch to paint an eight panel canvas representing the life of an Air Force Academy cadet over four years. Each canvas is a 40 foot by 40 foot panel, painted in acrylic enamel that portray the realism of Academy life since 1976. The panels hang on the northwest wall of the Cadet Field House indoor track and are a gift to the Academy's Athletic Department.

Field House Track Records

Men--Records

EVENT             RECORD-HOLDER                           RECORD
60m DASH          Leonard Myles-Mills (BYU) 1999          6.45
200m DASH         Josephus Howard (Texas Tech) 1998       20.51
400m DASH         Kevin Little (US West) 1996             46.07
800m RUN          Dan Rojas (Air Force Academy) 1984      1:48.23
MILE RUN          Bryan Berryhill (CSU) 1998              4:09.2 h
3000m RUN         Frank Shorter (Florida TC) 1971         8:16.5 c
5000m RUN         Richard Kosgei (Barton Co CC) 1994      14:33.46
60m HURDLES       Ron Bramlett (Alabama) 2002             7.58
MILE RELAY        UTEP 1998                               3:09.61
DISTANCE MEDLEY   New Mexico 1984                         10:01.66
HIGH JUMP         Matt Hemmingway (USWest TC) 2000        7'8 3/4
POLE VAULT        Pat Manson (US West TC) 1998            19'0 3/4"
LONG JUMP         Miguel Page (Alabama) 2002              26'3 1/2"
TRIPLE JUMP       Brian Wellman (Nike) 2000               55'11 1/4"
SHOT PUT          John Godina (Reebok Bruin TC) 1998      71'2 3/4"
WEIGHT THROW      Tore Johnsen (UTEP) 1984                78'6 1/2"
PENTATHLON        Dan O'Brien (Reebok) 1991               4231

Women--Records

EVENT             RECORD-HOLDER                           RECORD
60m DASH          Philomene Mensah Canada) 2000           7.13
200m DASH         Aspen Burkett (Illinois) 1996 and
                  Hydiane Harper (UNLV) 1998              23.57
400m DASH         Tonja Buford-Bailey (Nike Int'l) 1996   53.07
800m RUN          Tytti Reho (SMU) 1999                   2:08.30
MILE RUN          Elva Dryer (Western State) 1996         4:54.39
3000m RUN         Sharolyn Shields (BYU) 2000             9:51.70
5000m RUN         Tara Rohatinsky (BYU) 1999              17:09.03
60m HURDLES       Tiffany Lott (BYU) 1997                 7.83 c
MILE RELAY        Rice 1997                               3:41.98
DISTANCE MEDLEY   BYU 1997                                12:00.20
HIGH JUMP         Kajsa Berqvist (SMU) 1997               6'4 3/4"
POLE VAULT        Amy Linnen (Arizona) 2002               14' 1 1/4"
LONG JUMP         Kirstin Bolm (BYU) 2000                 21'02 3/4"
TRIPLE JUMP       Deanna Simmons (UCLA) 1998              43'5'
SHOT PUT          Jessica Cross (Wyoming) 2000            61'9 3/4"
WEIGHT THROW      Dawn Ellerbe (Laramie, WY) 2000         75'8 1/4"
PENTATHLON        Tiffany Lott (BYU) 1998                 4301