Oklahoma State University Athletics
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| FAST FACTS | |
| YEAR OPENED | 1997 |
| REDEDICATED | 2018 |
| CAPACITY | 2,500 |
| LARGEST CROWD | 4,122 (2018) |
| SUITE CAPACITY | 40 |
| CLUB CAPACITY | 80 |
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A $20 million project, the stadium is named for its major benefactor and Oklahoma State alumnus, the late Neal Patterson.
Patterson grew up near his family’s farm in Manchester, Okla. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and a master’s degree in business from Oklahoma State. He is one of five entrepreneurs who founded Sporting Club, which in 2006 purchased the Sporting KC Major League Soccer franchise. He also is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Cerner Corporation, a company he co-founded with two colleagues in 1979. Today, Cerner is the world’s largest publicly traded health information technology company with $4.8 billion in revenues in 2016 and approximately 24,000 associates worldwide. FORTUNE recently named Cerner one of the world’s most admired companies.
“When you provide an education to someone with intelligence, work ethic, determination and big dreams, you occasionally create a force that changes the world,” said Mike Holder, OSU’s Director of Athletics. “Neal Patterson did that in the health care industry, and our goal is to use his investment in OSU soccer to attract bright, determined, big dreamers from around the world to our soccer team.
“We have been blessed to have an abundance of successful and generous people that have helped transform our athletic department,” he added. “Our hope is that Neal’s gift will motivate someone else to make a difference on our campus. His name on the stadium is our way of saying thank you and inspiring that next great donor.”
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| Patterson Stadium is named in honor of Neal Patterson, Oklahoma State alumnus and major benefactor for the $20 million project. |
The new facility is a showcase for college soccer with club seats, plaza and upper bowl gathering areas and a north end zone terrace area and seating designed specifically for OSU students. Team facilities include locker rooms, meeting areas, kitchen facilities, sports medicine areas and equipment rooms. The stadium can accommodate 2,500 fans in permanent seats.
The west side of the stadium includes 346 reserved chairback seats and 810 reserved bleacher-back seats. There are 552 general admission seats.
The north end zone includes bleacher seating for more than 500 and includes a patio, a building and a concourse area that can host more than 125 for gatherings.
Atop the west side of the stadium are two club levels with a capacity of 80 and two suites with a capacity of 20 guests each. A new press box sits atop the stadium. The west side is anchored by a club area at field level that can host more than 100 and serve as a player lounge and nutrition area on non-game days.
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| Neal Patterson Stadium features a terrace area in the north end zone with seating designed specifically for OSU students. | |
Other unique aspects of Patterson Stadium include:
- A large roof that covers much of the seating areas, providing shade and a soccer-specific feel like that in many international venues
- Home and visitor bench areas with chairback seating built into the stadium
- A 26 feet by 40 feet high-definition video scoreboard in the southeast corner of the facility.
“A facility of this magnitude is a game changer for our program,” said OSU head soccer coach Colin Carmichael. “It helps the current student-athletes to be in one of the nicest facilities in the country. Our fans are going to have a much better game day experience. We want it to be a real family atmosphere.
“We have always had a good student following,” he added. “But we want to enhance their experience, which will make for a better atmosphere. And of course this will affect recruiting.
“Every recruit wants to know that how serious a school is about their sport. This is a huge statement from our administration.”
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| Kim Rodriguez scored the first goal in the history of the new Neal Patterson Stadium on a penalty kick against Oklahoma on August 19, 2018. | |
