The Tony and Nancy Moye Football and Lacrosse Complex (also known as Moye Complex, the stadium itself is officially named Five Star Stadium) is a 10,200 seat

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and

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stadium on the campus of

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. Construction began on November 12, 2011 and was completed in 2013; the

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3D Extreme surface was completed in 2012, the football team conducted its first practice in the stadium on August 27, 2012. The university initially announced the complex would have 6,000 seats; the number was increased to 10,200 in 2012. The first football game at Moye Complex was on August 31, 2013; Mercer defeated

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in front of an overflow crowd of 12,172 spectators. The sports complex has the following components: the Homer and Ruth Drake Field House, the William H. Anderson II Family Field, the Marshall and Jane Butler Family Plaza, and the Tony and Nancy Moye Family Football and Lacrosse Complex. Messrs. Drake, Anderson, Butler, and Moye are university

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and were major donors towards the stadium. On February 26, 2015, the stadium portion of the complex was named Five Star Stadium in recognition of a multimillion-dollar financial commitment to Mercer athletics by Five Star Automotive Group, which owns dealerships in Georgia, Tennessee and South Carolina. The president of Five Star Automotive Group, Charlie Cantrell, is also president of the Mercer Athletic Foundation. The complex is located adjacent to Mercer's other athletic facilities including Hawkins Arena (

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and athletic department offices),

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(

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), and Sikes Field (

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). There is a 101-room

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on university-owned land adjacent to the complex. Parking lots are available for visitors-spectators arriving via the Mercer University Drive exit off of

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. Mercer has an

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Division I athletic program and fields teams in eight men's and ten women's sports; all university-sponsored sports compete in the

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except women's

and women's

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, which are not sponsored by the SoCon, and thus compete in the

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