Liberty Softball Stadium is a
softball
Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...
venue in
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. First settled in 1757 by ferry owner John Lynch (1740–1820), John Lynch, the city's populati ...
. It is the home field of the
Liberty Lady Flames softball
The Liberty Lady Flames softball team represents Liberty University in NCAA Division I college softball. The team participates in the ASUN Conference. The Lady Flames are currently led by head coach Dot Richardson. The team plays its home game ...
team, a member of the
NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics among about 1,100 schools in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. It also organizes the athletic programs of colleges an ...
Division I Big South Conference
The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS). Th ...
. The stadium opened in January, 2015 and has a capacity of 1,000 spectators.
History
Features
The stadium includes 1,000 chairback seats, home, visitor and umpires’ locker rooms, team room, situation room, coaches’ offices, indoor batting tunnels, two full bullpens and an expansive athletic training room. The state-of-the art pressbox houses all game operations, home and visiting radio booths, TV booth and President’s suite.
The stadium features an
AstroTurf
AstroTurf is an American subsidiary of SportGroup that produces artificial turf for playing surfaces in sports. The original AstroTurf product was a short-pile synthetic turf invented in 1965 by Monsanto. Since the early 2000s, AstroTurf has m ...
field, with an artificial dirt infield.
See also
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List of NCAA Division I softball venues
References
External links
{{Liberty University
College softball venues in the United States
Liberty Lady Flames softball