Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium

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Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium
Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium
Location2 Washington Federal Way, Washington, PA
Coordinates 40°09′17″N80°16′52″W / 40.154622°N 80.281198°W / 40.154622; -80.281198
Owner Washington & Jefferson College
Operator Washington & Jefferson College
Field size233,000 ft.2
Surface FieldTurf
Opened2004
Tenants
Washington & Jefferson Presidents (NCAA DIII) (2004present)
Washington BlueSox (20062008)

Ross Memorial Park and Alexandre Stadium is a combined multi-purpose outdoor athletic facility in North Franklin Township, Pennsylvania owned by Washington & Jefferson College. The playing surface is made of FieldTurf, like the college's football stadium, Cameron Stadium. [1] At 233,000-square-foot (21,600 m2), the facility was the home of the largest continuous artificial playing surface in the world at its completion in 2004. [1] [2]

Located adjacent to Wild Things Park, the facility accommodates two full soccer and lacrosse fields. [1] In the fall, Alexandre Stadium is home to the college's men's and women's soccer teams; in the spring, the men's lacrosse team. [1]

Ross Memorial Park is the home field for the W&J baseball team. RMP hosted the 2015, 2016 and 2017 NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Championships. [1] One of the two soccer fields overlaps the outfield of Ross Memorial Park, and the facility is adapted to baseball use by altering the fence and revealing the base areas. [1] The stadium contains four hundred chairback seats in addition to a press box and a state-of-the-art scoreboard. [1]

The facility also is home to the Ross Locker Room facility, providing an official home for baseball, men's and women's soccer, and men's and women's lacrosse. [3] The facility, adjacent to the fields, houses three full-sized locker rooms, an athletic training room, an officials' locker room, and an equipment and laundry room. [3] The locker room facility was dedicated on April 19, 2008, in honor of James David Ross, thanks to a private donation from the Ross family. [3] Ross was a manager of the Lower Burrell American Legion baseball team for 22 years, amassing over 600 wins leading the program to 17 league championships and eight Westmoreland County titles. [3]

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References

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