Mac Rating: 5.00 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

The turf is heated by 21 miles of piping and 24 sensors, so snow melts on contact and the Buckeyes practice outdoors in an Ohio January. Ohio State Lacrosse Stadium, at 630 Irving Schottenstein Drive in Columbus, opened in January 2023 as the university's first lacrosse-only venue. The project answered a long imbalance: the men's and women's lacrosse programs had shared the Woody Hayes Athletic Center with football and played home games in a mostly empty Ohio Stadium, while Big Ten rivals Michigan and Penn State unveiled dedicated lacrosse venues in 2018 and 2019. The 24.9-million-dollar build was approved by the Board of Trustees in August 2021, funded entirely by private donations kickstarted by an anonymous donor after the men's 2017 national-final run, and broke ground that November between the Covelli Center and the Ty Tucker Tennis Center. The design chases intimacy: 1,894 capacity including 772 grandstand seats - 112 with seatbacks - plus under-grandstand standing and a rooftop viewing deck, arranged for what the program calls 360-degree sightlines with no bad position in the building. The amenities double as training infrastructure: an indoor shooting room, outdoor wall-ball area and training room serve both programs year-round, and the stadium hosted the Big Ten women's tournament semifinals and final in its first season. Practical notes: the ribbon was cut on 21 January 2023 before a men's scrimmage against Lafayette, the first official win came against Air Force that February, and the rooftop rail is the connoisseur's vantage - free sightlines over both restraining boxes. The programs arrived with history to build on: the men's team dates to 1949 and drew 31,078 to the 2010 Showdown in the Shoe against Air Force - a regular-season national record set as a spring-football-game opening act - so the new stadium's intimacy is a choice, not a ceiling.