MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- Penn High School unveiled the new Dr. Jerry and Donna Thacker Fieldhouse Wednesday afternoon with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

This new facility provides 80 thousand square feet of indoor space for year-round student programming across academics, athletics, and extracurricular activities.

The $18 million fieldhouse project was completed without raising tax rates for residents of Pen, Harris, and Maddison Townships and is named in honor of retired Penn-Harris-Maddison Superintendent Dr. Terry Thacker and his wife Donna Thacker, to recognize their decades of leadership, service, and philanthropic support of the Penn-Harris-Maddison schools and P-H-M Education Foundation.

"This is a project that was necessary because we have grown so much in our curricular and our extracurricular offerings that we just simply needed space." Said P-H-M Board of Trustees President, Christopher Riley. "And so, several years ago, we put in place a budget and a plan to get the field house constructed for the benefit of our students and ultimately for the benefit of our community."