Get used to the phrase “MidAmerican Energy Field at Jack Trice Stadium,” Iowa State fans. 

Going into effect for the first game of the 2018 football season, that will be the new name for Iowa State’s football field, after the school announced a partnership with MidAmerican Energy at a Wednesday afternoon press conference in Bergstrom Football Complex. 

The Jack Trice Stadium name will not be changed. 

The partnership will also include the company supporting a new Student-Athlete Performance Center in the north end zone of Jack Trice Stadium. Athletic Director Jamie Pollard said during the press conference that the project would begin construction in the spring of 2019, pending a final approval from the Board of Regents.

In a University statement handed out at the press conference, Pollard said that the partnership “will directly benefit all Cyclone athletes who pass through the doors of the new Student-Athlete Sports Performance Center.”

The expanded partnerships with MidAmerican will include the energy company upping its donations to Iowa State. That extra funding, Pollard said, will go towards the north end zone project.

“This is much more than a logo on the field, or a sign on the stadium,” Pollard said. “It’s about partnering with a forward-thinking company that wants to help our student-athletes excel both in the classroom and on the playing field.”

Pollard said that the project is still in its developmental phase, and as such, he said there was no set date for the project to be completed once the Board of Regents gives its approval.

Pollard made sure to mention that the project would be more difficult than the south end zone project that was recently completed by the university. 

“It’s a complex project because it requires eliminating some current space that has facilities use in it,” Pollard said. “This is going to be very logistical and have to be thought out from a timing standpoint. So, it could be a two-year project just to phase it in around the seasons.”

The Olsen building will be a casualty of the proposed project and will be replaced by a plaza and stadium entrance.

Pollard added that there was no final price tag for the project as of yet, but that funding would take corporate and individual donors to back the project.

Alongside Pollard at the press conference was MidAmerican Energy president and CEO Adam Wright. 

“We are proud to support the culture of excellence that embodies Iowa State University and parallels that of MidAmerican Energy,” Wright said in the Cyclones’ press release. “Helping Iowa State enhance its student-athletes’ ability to perform at the highest level of competition through this new center and the university’s other world-class programs also helps in the development of our future workforce — and is something that is very important to us.”

Wright said at Wednesday’s presser that it was “an honor” for MidAmerican to have its name on the field of “one of Iowa’s most beloved teams.”

In the university’s statement, Iowa State University President Wendy Wintersteen said that the legacy of Jack Trice is “foundational to our institution.”