The long-needed improvements to existing outdoor facilities at the Pickard Field athletic complex, which will benefit varsity, club, and intramural athletic experiences, are nearing completion.
“The completed project will revolutionize the outdoor playing venues for Bowdoin teams while providing year-round recreation facilities for intramural and club sport athletes at the College,” said Tim Ryan, Ashmead White Director of Athletics.
The addition of lights is of considerable benefit to students, allowing for evening practices and games for soccer, rugby, baseball, and softball that will reduce conflicts with afternoon classes and labs.
A multipurpose turf field will provide year-round, lighted recreation space for soccer, rugby, intramural, and club sport offerings and serve as a foul weather game location for soccer and rugby.
Accessible seating and a press box are being added to the women’s soccer game field, which will be used for evening games by both the men’s and women’s soccer programs.
The softball facility will include a field turf playing surface, accessible seating, press box, new dugouts, both clay and turf bullpens, and a new double-occupancy batting cage.
Drone photography by David Israel, senior producer for academic media.
The baseball facility will consist of a field turf playing surface, accessible seating, press box, new dugouts, both clay and turf bullpens, and a new double-occupancy batting cage and will feature a scoreboard built into a seventeen-foot-high left-field wall.
A new rugby facility will provide a natural sod grass playing surface with lights, accessible seating, and a press box for the women’s and men’s rugby teams.
A new multipurpose grass field will provide a practice surface for soccer teams in the fall and for intramural and club playing fields in the spring.
The multipurpose turf field and soccer game field lights were completed and utilized during the fall season, and the remainder of the Pickard Field renovation project will be completed prior to the start of the teams’ seasons.
