Koskinen Stadium is a 4,500-seat (7,000-capacity) stadium in
Durham, North Carolina
Durham ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the county seat of Durham County, North Carolina, Durham County. Small portions of the city limits extend into Orange County, North Carolina, Orange County and Wake County, North Carol ...
on the campus of
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
. It serves as home to Duke's
soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
and
lacrosse
Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...
teams.
The stadium is named in honor of Duke benefactors
John Koskinen
John Andrew Koskinen (born June 30, 1939) is an American businessman and public official. He served as the non-executive chairman of Freddie Mac from September 2008 to December 2011, retiring from the board in February 2012. On December 20, 2013, K ...
and Patricia Koskinen.
See also
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Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse
The Duke Blue Devils men's lacrosse team represents Duke University in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's lacrosse. Duke currently competes as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and plays its home ga ...
References
External links
Duke Athletics - Koskinen Stadium
College lacrosse venues in the United States
College soccer venues in the United States
Duke Blue Devils soccer
Lacrosse venues in North Carolina
Soccer venues in North Carolina
Sports venues in Durham, North Carolina
Duke Blue Devils sports venues
Duke Blue Devils lacrosse
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