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Merillat Sport & Fitness Center
Multi-Performance Sport Stadium
Arrington Ice Arena
Built in 1990, Merillat
provides educational, recreation and fitness
facilities for all Adrian College students,
faculty members and staff. The 80,000 square
foot complex includes a multi-sport forum for
general recreational use with courts for basketball,
volleyball and tennis, surrounded by a one-tenth
mile indoor track. The Merillat also houses
a conditioning room, classrooms, a physiology
laboratory, and Vivian Wellness Center, as well
as a performance gymnasium which seats 1,300
persons and serves as home to the Bulldog basketball
and volleyball teams. Offices of the exercise
science/physical education department faculty
and athletic department coaches and administrators
are also contained in the building. The Merillat
Center is named for Orville and Ruth Merillat,
civic and business leaders in the community
of Adrian for many years, whose leadership gift
to the project provided the impetus for construction.
In 2006, Adrian College built a brand
new Multi-Sport stadium for their Football,
Soccer, and Lacrosse teams,
as well for many other important events. The
stadium was dedicated on September 9, 2006 prior
to the first football game of the season.
Shortly there after, Adrian College announced
it would be breaking ground on a campus Ice
Arena for the college and Adrian community.
Completion for the ice arena is sceduled for
Fall 2007 for the start of the ice hockey season.
Merillat Sport & Fitness Center
Entrance

Weight Room

Vivian Wellness
Center
Multi-Performance Stadium

Arrington Ice Arena (rendering)

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