| Full name | Aggie Field Hockey Facility |
|---|---|
| Location | Davis, California |
| Coordinates | 38°32′05″N121°45′35″W / 38.53472°N 121.75972°W Coordinates: 38°32′05″N121°45′35″W / 38.53472°N 121.75972°W |
| Owner | University of California, Davis |
| Construction | |
| Built | 2014 |
| Opened | 2014 |
| Construction cost | $3.2 million |
| Tenants | |
| UC Davis Aggies field hockey | |
Aggie Field Hockey Facility is a field hockey stadium on the campus of University of California, Davis in Davis, California. [1]
Field hockey, known in most countries just as hockey, is a team game of the hockey family. The earliest origins of the game date back to the Middle Ages in England, Scotland, France and the Netherlands. The game can be played on grass, water turf, artificial turf or synthetic field as well as an indoor board surface. Each team plays with eleven players, including the goalie. Players use sticks made out of wood, carbon fibre, fibre glass or a combination of carbon fibre and fibre glass in different quantities to hit a round, hard, plastic ball. The length of the stick depends on the player's individual height. Only one face of the stick is allowed to be used. Goalies often have a different kind of stick, however they can also use an ordinary field hockey stick. The specific goal-keeping sticks have another curve at the end of the stick, this is to give them more surface area to save the ball. The uniform consists of shin guards, shoes, shorts, a mouth guard and a jersey. Today, the game is played globally, with particular popularity throughout Western Europe, South Asia, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and parts of the United States. Known simply as "hockey" in many territories, the term "field hockey" is used primarily in Canada and the United States where ice hockey is more popular. In Sweden, the term "landhockey" is used and to some degree also in Norway where it is governed by Norway's Bandy Association.
A stadium is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
The University of California, Davis, is a public research university and land-grant university adjacent to Davis, California. It is part of the University of California (UC) system and has the third-largest enrollment in the UC System after UCLA and UC Berkeley. The institution was founded as a branch in 1909 and became its own separate entity in 1959. It has been labeled one of the "Public Ivies", a publicly funded university considered to provide a quality of education comparable to those of the Ivy League.
The stadium was constructed in 2014 for the UC Davis field hockey team, which previously played at Aggie Stadium on the UC Davis campus. [2]
Aggie Stadium is a 10,743-seat multi-purpose stadium on the University of California, Davis campus in unincorporated Yolo County, California. It opened on April 1, 2007 and is the home to the UC Davis Aggies football and women's lacrosse teams, as well as semi-professional soccer club FC Davis of the National Premier Soccer League. It replaced Toomey Field. Plans call for the stadium to eventually be built out to 30,000 seats. The field at Aggie Stadium is named Jim Sochor Field, after their College Football Hall of Fame coach.
