University of Notre Dame

Arlotta Stadium is the home for the Notre Dame men's and women's lacrosse programs. Construction on the stadium began in August of 2008 and was completed in the fall of 2009. The state-of-the-art facility features lights and an artificial turf field and has a permanent seating capacity of approximately 2,500 in the west grandstand, including VIP boxes flanking the main team entrance. Additional seating is available on a grass berm located on the east end of the grounds. The stadium offers upgraded and expanded restroom and concession areas, elevator access and handicapped reserved seating on the main concourse level, as well as numerous amenities for both Fighting Irish lacrosse programs (expansive locker rooms with custom-made wood lockers, spacious team lounges with flat-screen plasma TVs and high-speed internet access, and a fully-equipped athletic training center).
The University of Notre Dame Men's Rugby Program plays at the highest level of collegiate rugby in the United States. The Irish compete in 15s play in the fall, and 7s competition in the spring, culminating with the Penn Mutual Collegiate Rugby Championship, which the team has been a competitor in, since it's inception in 2010. Home matches are played on our attractive, dedicated artificial turf field, Stinson Rugby Field, and all students at Notre Dame and Holy Cross are eligible to join the club.
Certified LEED Silver, the Harris Family Track and Field facility is located on the west side of the nine-lane outdoor track in the southeast corner of the Notre Dame campus. The new building will house a number of team support areas, including student-athlete and coach locker rooms, team meeting and event operations space, a nutrition station, and a satellite athletic training area.
The Loftus Sports Center is entering its 28th full year of service for the University of Notre Dame athletic program in 2014-15. One of the most integral athletic buildings on campus, the Loftus Center serves as an indoor practice facility for several Irish varsity sports (football, track and field, rowing, women’s soccer, men’s soccer, women’s lacrosse, men’s lacrosse, baseball and softball) and hosts competition for both the track and field and lacrosse teams.
The combination of the Eck Tennis Pavilion and Courtney Tennis Center has allowed the University of Notre Dame to play host to a number of prestigious events, including serving as the site of the NCAA Championships in 1994 for men's tennis and in 1998 for women's tennis. In all, Notre Dame has been the site of NCAA action on 18 occasions, including every year from 1994-2002 for either men or women's play. The Eck Tennis Pavilion has three times welcomed Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Midwest Region Indoor Championships and six times helped play host to the Midwestern Collegiate Conference Championship. The facility has provided additional courts for the men's Tom Fallon Invitational and Bobby Bayliss Invitational and has been the home of the women's Eck Classic for 18 years.
This brick stadium, located on the southeast corner of the campus, has been the home of Fighting Irish softball since the 2008 season. It honors a 1994 Notre Dame graduate and softball player who was killed in a construction accident in 2002. The $4.9-million stadium features home and visitor locker rooms, heated dugouts, advanced technology in field drainage and lighting, training rooms, a coach’s game day office, and many other extras. Notre Dame broke ground on this stadium in April 2007 on the weekend that the University celebrated 35 years of women’s athletics on campus.
Alumni Stadium opened its doors for soccer action in 2009. It has a seating capacity of 2,500 in the west grandstand, VIP boxes flanking the main team entrance and grass berm seating on the east end of the grounds; elevator access and handicapped reserved seating on the main concourse level, Concessions are available.
The Irish swimming and diving teams compete in the state-of-the-art Rolfs Aquatic Center. After 27 years for the men's swimming team and four years of varsity intercollegiate swimming competition for the women's team in the Rockne Memorial Pool, the Notre Dame men's and women's swimming and diving programs entered a new era in 1985, as they moved to the $4.5-million natatorium located in the Joyce Center
Though Rockne had a chance to coach in the new facility only in its initial season of use, he took a personal hand in its design. The sod from Cartier Field was transplanted into the new Stadium, but Rockne insisted on its use for football only. He kept the area between the field and the stands small to keep sideline guests, as he called them, to a minimum - and he personally supervised the parking and traffic system that basically is the same one in use today. Originally designed by Osborn Engineering Company - the same firm that designed Comiskey Park in Chicago and New York's Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds - the total cost of construction exceeded $750,000 and it was patterned on a smaller scale after the University of Michigan's stadium. The 1996 season was the final one played with the customary 59,075 fans at Notre Dame Stadium. A $50-million expansion adding over 21,000 seats was completed before the 1997 kickoff, bringing capacity to its present-day 80,795.It was the success of Knute Rockne's football teams that prompted the addition of the original Notre Dame Stadium to the University's athletics plant back in 1930. The spirit that was imbued by that Rockne era - and has been sustained by seven Heisman Trophy winners and dozens more All-Americans who have competed there - has changed little in eight decades of football at Notre Dame Stadium.unquestionably developed a lore of its own. The stadium, which celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2015, continues to be one of the most recognizable and revered structures in the world of sport. Notre Dame Stadium, maybe the most renowned college football facility in the nation, now qualifies as one of the most up to date as well, thanks to a major addition and renovations that boosted its capacity to more than 80,000 beginning with the 1997 campaign. The 1996 season was the final one played with the customary 59,075 fans at Notre Dame Stadium. A $50-million expansion adding over 21,000 seats was completed before the 1997 season kickoff. To upgrade on the 1997 renovation, two new scoreboards were installed in both end zones before the 2009 season that utilize the latest in LED-screen technologies.
Upon its opening in 1994, the 2,500-seat stadium became the latest jewel among Notre Dame's ever-expanding athletic facilities. Located on the southeast corner of campus, Eck Stadium has become quite friendly to the Irish. Eck Stadium includes spacious home and visitor locker-room areas, meeting rooms and coaching facilities for each team. The stadium also houses a beautiful press box overlooking home plate and the 2,500-seat grandstand. The stadium is illuminated by a state-of-the-art lighting system, allowing for night play. A brand-new, state of the art amber LED board with full color 48" by 256" LED screen was installed in August of 2011. The board provides up to three lines of text and can process imported graphics and in-game statistics and display them by a multitude of animated patterns. The board also can display a running clock and serve as a marquee to promote events.
In fall of 2012, Notre Dame's Fencing program was blessed with a new, modern facility with the gift of Patrick (class of '68) and Concetta Castellan, whose two sons, Matt (2001-04) and Chris (2004-05) both competed with the team in their years at Notre Dame. The Castellan Family Fencing Center features separate men's, women's and coaches' locker rooms, an armory repair room, team lounge and kitchen area, an enclosed conference room and individual coaches offices. Built around the old Joyce hockey rink in the North Dome of the Joyce Athletic Convocation Center, past trophies and awards are also displayed by the entrance into the arena.