Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium is located in Falcon Heights on the

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campus of the

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. It is primarily used as the home of the

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team. The stadium opened in 1999 and seats 1,000. The stadium is named after Elizabeth Lyle Robbie, who was the wife of

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, former owner of the

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. The Robbie family was originally from South Dakota, but lived a number of years in Minneapolis. Elizabeth was the first female owner of a professional sports franchise in the United States, as she owned the

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soccer team in the 1970s and 1980s. Prior to Robbie Stadium, the school played home games from 1993 to 1998 at the St. Paul Campus Soccer Field, also located in Falcon Heights.

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