Indoor sports facility announced

[Weder]

Meinig Fieldhouse will be next to the soccer field and will be big enough to hold lacrosse games, including room for spectators. Expected to open in 2026.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/10/new-indoor-sports-facility-honor-peter-c-meinig-61?fbclid=IwAR3gcg_1KdXRkvFyNB2GDVtJuWBoEZX-O4nC24hREHpN6YXJ8pXEh6E3BRg

[CU2007]

Fantastic news

[big29red]

This is huge! Finally!!! Glad it's in central campus and that they will allow all student organizations to use it! I've been railing for this for years, great for recruiting!!!

[Weder]

It's not in the linked article for some reason, but the link that the athletics department posted on Facebook has a rendering showing that the field hockey facility shifts to the west, behind Bartels Hall and closer to the Biotech Building, to make room for the indoor facility.
(I missed the giant photo at the top of the article showing this)

[mike1960]

That is terrific news!

[Trotsky]

$55M.  SMH.

[Trotsky]

It's not in the linked article for some reason, but the link that the athletics department posted on Facebook has a rendering showing that the field hockey facility shifts to the west, behind Bartels Hall and closer to the Biotech Building, to make room for the indoor facility.
(I missed the giant photo at the top of the article showing this)

So is that directly across Tower Rd. from Bradfield?

[Weder]

It's not in the linked article for some reason, but the link that the athletics department posted on Facebook has a rendering showing that the field hockey facility shifts to the west, behind Bartels Hall and closer to the Biotech Building, to make room for the indoor facility.
(I missed the giant photo at the top of the article showing this)

So is that directly across Tower Rd. from Bradfield?

Yeah, should be.

[billhoward]

Good news that Cornell will have a field house for
* sports practice for athletes
* ability to play lacrosse (other games? soccer?) in the field house
* access for students
* on campus not out by the cow barns
* has spectator space (100? 250? 500? 1000?) -- 500 should hold the number of fans that show up early season for lacrosse

Cornell Sun has not yet weighed in as of Thursday afternoon. They have been busy covering Ho Plaza protests in support of solidarity with Palestine. Different department from sports.

I hope the lettering on the outside says Meinig Fieldhouse. It gets a bit much as when the name expands to, say, Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering (this exists), I have no problem with a long-form plaque inside the door, but when there's a haiku-number of words relating to full-naming in the first graf of a sports story, it's a killer.

This is a 120x60 yard field. If I recall, women's lacrosse fields are supposed to be 70 yards wide. Or is this like ice hockey, where there are 200 x 85 and 200 x 100 foot ("Olympic") rinks, and in some cases that works out to a home advantage.

At least Cornell will not be the last Ivy school with a permanent, full-field field house, or fieldhouse.

[underskill]

Maybe Qatar can donate for the field house since I know a bunch of alumni who want nothing to do with Cornell at the moment (rightly so).

[jtwcornell91]

Meinig Fieldhouse will be next to the soccer field and will be big enough to hold lacrosse games, including room for spectators. Expected to open in 2026.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/10/new-indoor-sports-facility-honor-peter-c-meinig-61?fbclid=IwAR3gcg_1KdXRkvFyNB2GDVtJuWBoEZX-O4nC24hREHpN6YXJ8pXEh6E3BRg

Does that mean we're giving up our "home ice advantage" for lax vs Syracuse?

[billhoward]

Even in chilly weather, a Cornell-Syracuse game is worth 2000-3000 fans. I don't think even a first rate field house holds that many people. In the Carrier Dome, yes.

[upprdeck]

Do they change the rule on FIeld hockey being played on field turf?  I thought they only allowed grass or Astro turf type fields?

[billhoward]

In HS, you play on whatever field sheds water. In college, AstroTurf is what a college needs to have if it's to be a seriously considered place for recruits. AstroTurf keeps balls going straight but is said to be worse for burns and scrapes when you fall.

[Al DeFlorio]

Do they change the rule on FIeld hockey being played on field turf?  I thought they only allowed grass or Astro turf type fields?

Only mention of field hockey in announcement was the "rebuild" of Dodson.