LVC Athletics
Flying Dutchmen
A packed crowd was on hand when LVC hosted nationally ranked Widener University on September 29, in just the second football game played on the new turf at Arnold Field.
The field hockey team played the first-ever game on the new turf on September 1. They also played the first-ever outdoor night contest on campus (above) when they hosted #4 Messiah College on September 29.
FieldTurf Installed on Arnold Field Arnold Field underwent a
renovation this summer that included the installation of a FieldTurf Revolution artificial turf field, track re-surfacing, competition-quality lighting, and other enhancements. The upgraded facility is home to LVC’s football, field hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, and men’s and women’s track & field programs. Lebanon Valley College partnered with industry leaders in athletic facility construction to ensure the very best finished product for its student-athletes. They included designer Activitas, which has worked
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with Harvard, Penn, Villanova, and the New England Patriots; Clark Companies, which has completed hundreds of pro and collegiate athletic facility installations including the fields at MetLife Stadium and West Point’s Michie Stadium; Musco, the global leader in sports lighting systems; and FieldTurf, the worldwide standard for artificial playing surfaces, with more than 15,000 installations. “The transformation of Arnold Field has already had a significant positive impact on the quality of our student-athlete experience,” said Rick Beard ’90, M’92, LVC director of
athletics. “Soon, it also will enable the lacrosse programs to participate in winter preseason practice, because it can be plowed after snowstorms. The men’s and women’s soccer teams are able to practice on it to prepare for an opponent with a turf field, and the surface is regarded as safer to play on than grass in bad weather. It’s a project that will benefit all LVC students, not just those playing varsity sports, by allowing greater general student use of our grass fields.” To see photos and videos of the field being installed, completed, and played on, visit GoDutchmen.com.