Many college memories involve the camaraderie and excitement that revolves around fall football games. Capturing that spirit was crucial as administrators at Gustavus Adolphus College planned a new 3,000-seat stadium to replace the original facility built in 1929. The new stadium’s location consolidates the college’s sports and recreation venues on the northwest edge of campus while making space available for the development of a new academic quadrangle where the old stadium stood.
The new location also provides better access to the adjacent Lund Arena sports and recreation complex, where locker rooms are available for the home and visiting football teams. Tunnels under the visitors’ seating section provide players with direct, grade-separated access to the football fi eld, and the synthetic turf surface maximizes the facility’s use for physical education and recreation applications.
A tiered retaining wall system around the performance field reinforces the bowl effect and creates spectator/player separation without the use of visually intrusive fencing. A multistory press box and home bleachers enclose the stadium from the left, and visitors’ seating and Lund Arena frame the fi eld on the right.
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