Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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BLUEGOLDONLINE.COM SEPT. 12, 2026 19 All seven of Notre Dame's Heisman Trophies and also all the major individual player awards are on display in Shields Family Hall. The Patrick Kramer Dining Room provides Irish student-athletes a state-of-the-art, onsite kitchen and dedicated performance nutrition hub inside their training facility. The players' lounge includes large flat-screen televisions for watching film, streaming entertainment and games, plus table games and a team barbershop. The multi-level, 190-seat, 43,000-square-foot Dave and Clare Butler Auditorium — designed to replicate the exact premium seating in the lower level of Notre Dame Stadium — was built to host full team meetings and film study. The new Keith and Janet Sherin Locker Room contains 114 player lockers as well as 12 alumni lockers for those in the NFL who come back to work out regularly in the offseason. The Gillen Family Sports Medicine and Recovery Center features massive custom hot and cold plunge pools, advanced reha- bilitation pools and underwater treadmills. BLUEGOLDONLINE.COM SEPT. 12, 2026 19

