The stadium built for a sports festival ended up hosting the Pan Am Games, Olympic trials and a soccer revival. IU Michael A. Carroll Track and Soccer Stadium at 1001 West New York Street opened in 1982 on the IUPUI (now IU Indianapolis) campus, built for 7 million dollars alongside the famous Natatorium for the National Sports Festival - the project that launched Indianapolis's deliberate self-reinvention as the amateur sports capital of America. Named for Michael A. Carroll, the civic leader and Lilly Endowment executive killed in a 1987 plane crash, the stadium was recorded seating as many as 19,800 in its early configuration, since rationalised to 12,111 with soccer matches often capped around 10,500. The track credentials are national-class: the eight-lane, 400-meter Mondo surface hosted athletics at the 1987 Pan American Games, the 1988 US Olympic Team Trials, and the USA Track and Field Championships in both 2006 and 2007, plus Big Ten and Horizon League championships, NCAA meets and the 2001 World Police and Fire Games. A 1997 rebuild renewed the drainage, track and infield; 1998 added digital photo-finish timing and scoreboard systems; and a 2022 renovation installed the current FieldTurf Revolution pitch. Professional soccer gave the old bowl its loudest years: Indy Eleven of the NASL and later USL Championship made Carroll Stadium home from their 2014 debut through 2017, returned for the 2019 playoffs - including a USL Eastern Conference final - and again from 2021, averaging nearly 9,000 fans across 70 matches in the first tenancy, among the best attendance in American second-division soccer, while the club's planned Eleven Park stadium remains in limbo. Day to day the stadium serves the IU Indianapolis Jaguars' soccer and track programs and all fourteen of the university's Division I teams as a training ground, plus high school state championships and community events - the workhorse of White River State Park's athletic corridor, still earning its keep four decades on.

Type: Stadium / Arena

Address: 1001 W New York Street, Indianapolis, IN, United States, 46202

Website: https://carrollstadium.indianapolis.iu.edu

Capacity: 12111

Opening Date: 01/07/1982

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