Open Forum: Best Lacrosse Stadiums/Venues in the Nation??

by justinsimon15 on Apr 13, 2025 6:02 PM EDT

A bit of a slow day here in the college lacrosse world so I wanted to start an open forum for all of us to discuss our favorite lacrosse venues in the nation.

I have been fortunate enough to watch some of the best games over the past years in the Carrier Dome, but I have also seen what the crowd at Schoellkopf Field at Cornell and Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville is a great time on a sunny Saturday when the place is packed.

Here are some of the tops in the country:

Schoellkopf Field is a 25,597-capacity stadium at Cornell University's Ithaca-campus that opened in 1915 and is used for the Cornell Big Red football, sprint football, lacrosse and field hockey teams

Klockner Stadium: The men's and women's lacrosse teams play all home games at Köckner Stadium. The field has served as one of the best places to catch the most exciting lacrosse games in ACC history. It also attracts some of the best teams in the country, which makes for an exhilarating spring in Klöckner. Home to the Virginia Cavaliers

Built at a cost of $3.4 million, Klöckner Stadium was made possible through the generosity of the Klöckner Group donating $1.2 million to the construction the stadium.

Carrier Dome: Capacity of 49,250

Homewood Field: Said by some to be the "Mecca of Lacrrose" and the "Yankee Stadium" of the lacrosse world, It was built in 1906 and has an official capacity of 8,500 people. Home of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays

Princeton Stadium: The stadium opened in 1998 on the site of Princeton's former stadium, Palmer Stadium, and seats 27,773.

Leave your comments below about where you have seen some of the best games and why. Where you feel the home team truly has an advantage.

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never been to a college lax game. But I was at the MLL all star game in Harvard.

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by Marisa Ingemi on Apr 13, 2025 6:11 PM EDT reply actions

Schoellkopf Field

Is a dump. But the Cornell campus is lovely.

by Orange::44 on Apr 13, 2025 7:26 PM EDT reply actions

Schoellkopf is not "dumb"

but we can’t fill our seats and the architecture is not conducive to a good atmosphere.

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by Ben Schneider on Apr 17, 2025 6:35 PM EDT up reply actions

Apparently I can't read.

It’s not a dump. It’s not beautiful either.

It is waaaay too big for Cornell football and lacrosse.

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by Ben Schneider on Apr 17, 2025 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Carrier Dome is the best LAX venue .. in Feb and March.

Too bad we can’t unzip the roof when the weather gets nice.

by DanteAmore on Apr 13, 2025 7:36 PM EDT reply actions

Here's a few.

Boswell at Hobart. When big teams come into town it’d get nuts. Best when the fish fly.

Garber at UMass. The Gorillas are right on top of the field.

Hofstra. Draws well and the fans are knowledgeable.

I haven’t been yet, but want to hit up Navy-Marine down at Navy.

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by Hoya Suxa on Apr 13, 2025 7:55 PM EDT via mobile reply actions

The best..

Is West Genesee High School in Camillus. Great fans, great coach, great tradition, great lacrosse.

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by GiantsCauseway on Apr 14, 2025 7:58 AM EDT reply actions

Oh Man

That crowd at Hobart was brutal in 2010..awful weather, ugly game…the crowd was all over ’Cuse.
Also, another hostile environment is Loyola…those fans were ripping into ’Cuse the whole time in ’09

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by justinsimon15 on Apr 14, 2025 10:25 AM EDT reply actions

Hmm going by the places I've gone for lacrosse games

Carrier Dome’s good for early in the season and does it’s job. If they’d build an outdoor stadium for the season from April on it would be good, but there’s no place really to build it. Still cool though to have the lacrosse team play in a D-1 football stadium

Shuart Stadium’s a fun place to watch a game. They made some nice upgrades surrounding the stadium and being from Long Island you’re always sure to see some of your teammates and friends catching a Hofstra game

Schoellkopf suffers from being an outdated stadium. As said before, though, Cornell’s probably the most beautiful campus I’ve ever been to, and at least you get a feel of that in the surrounding parts of the stadium

Princeton depends on what field they’re playing at. Class of 52’s a dump (complete with astro-turf), but Princeton Stadium’s nice. I still don’t know why they continue to have the men’s team play at Class of 52 (save for the Syracuse game which I gave a “thank god” that I wouldn’t have to go to Class of 52) when the women play at Princeton Stadium

Stony Brook has a really solid stadium as well. I was there for the quarterfinals and they built that stadium pretty nicely. The only downside is that it’s a mile inland. If the campus was just a little up the road, you’d get an amazing view of the Long Island Sound on the north end zone.

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by RyanMcD29 on Apr 14, 2025 9:42 PM EDT reply actions