Wednesday, August 3, 2016
The stadium looks almost complete after the skeleton was constructed a year ago! The finishing touches are being installed now with final cleaning and furniture installation remaining. UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
The window-filled entrance on the backside of the brand new Wildcat Stadium is capped off with a smooth archway for fans to cross under next season! UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
The stadium has taken quite a shape since its initial construction about a year ago!Things are wrapping up on the old visitor side and will be completed by the start of football season! UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
UNH Athletics wanted a special entrance for fans into Wildcat Stadium. So we went ahead and had a bridge built from the Video board entrance to the Wildcat Stadium concourse. UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Thursday, July 7, 2016
The ticket windows are in place and will be open for business before too long. A concrete pumping rig sent product into the upper reaches of the new Wildcat Stadium earlier this week to finish off a couple of small projects. Painters and carpet folks and ceiling installers and masons, among many others, handled various projects. The opening game in the stadium is just over two months away – the UNH football team christens its new home with a game against Holy Cross on Saturday, Sept. 10 at 7 p.m. – and crews are in the process of adding finishing touches to the place.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
It started with concrete and it looks to wrap up with concrete as well. The end of the concourse looks like a great view! UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
The student section named “The Dungeon” will have a much different view from a year ago, along with the rest of the stadium! UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Just about a year ago they began pile driving to put initial posts in for the stadium. Nowadays the building is standing tall looking over Mooradian Field with construction wrapping up in the coming months. UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Monday, June 20, 2016
The massive 30-foot by 50-foot video board is in place and should be operational by early July. Crews from Stanley Elevator have made much progress in the last week as they build a couple of elevators on site. Carpeting, painting and brickwork are under way in various spots in the building. Construction of the new Wildcat Stadium is steaming along where once stood the visitors’ stands for Cowell Stadium.
Friday, June 17, 2016
Check out the installation process of the video board!
Thursday, June 16, 2016
Video board? Check. The 30-foot by 50-foot video board for the new Wildcat Stadium is now in place. Construction continues in the stadium that opens with a home game against Holy Cross on Saturday, Sept. 10. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information. UNH opens the 2016 season with a game at San Diego State on Sept. 3.
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
The stadium was rocking back in 1939 with the press box as a centerpiece! The same press box is currently being torn down with the new Wildcat Stadium being built. UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Just about a year ago the construction crew used dynamite to shape the area that is now the new bridge entrance into Wildcat Stadium! UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
It was about a year ago ground was broken for Wildcat Stadium! Things look much different from the same spot nowadays. UNH football opens the stadium on September 10, 2016 with a game against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Friday, May 27, 2016
UNH football held a 59-11 record since 2004 in Cowell Stadium and there was plenty of exciting moments with many more to come in Wildcat Stadium!
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
Workers had to clear the visitor side last May before they could begin the process of constructing Wildcat Stadium. The new stadium is progressing each day heading toward UNH football’s home opener on September 10, 2016 against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
A year ago this month, workers removed the old visitor stands at Cowell Stadium piece-by-piece. This month the new stands are nearing completion in Wildcat Stadium, set to host its first UNH football game on September 10 against Holy Cross. Season ticket packages are available, click HERE for more information.
Monday, May 16, 2016
The 500-plus blue, wide, padded Service Credit Union Victory Club seats with cup holders – have you reserved yours yet? – are in place and ready for September football. Monday, a crew began installing the speakers that will be placed on top of the Field House’s indoor track as part of the new stadium’s sound system.
Monday, May 9, 2016
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
The stadium construction is still going! Check out the video and this
Tuesday, April 4, 2016
We took a tour of the stadium which has progressed nicely heading into the spring season!
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
It’s all about that glass. That tile. And those seats. Seventy-five workers – give or take a few – representing a dozen or so trades are clocking in at the new Wildcat Stadium daily as spring begins and the facility nears its opening this summer.
Thursday, March 17, 2016
The UNH football team will pay a visit to an old haunt in the 2017 season. Athletics department officials this week finalized a deal to have the Wildcats play their FBS game at Georgia Southern University on Sept. 9, 2017, the second week of that season.
Thursday, March 10, 2016
DURHAM, N.H. –
The University of New Hampshire Department of Athletics in conjunction with Service Credit Union announced Thursday the premium stadium club-seating area in the new Wildcat football stadium will be known as the Service Credit Union Victory Club.
Friday, March 4, 2016
It won’t be long now before the stadium seats arrive. The 2016 season and a new era of UNH football will follow in a matter of months.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire Department of Athletics took a major step toward an exciting new era when director of athletics
Marty Scarano
and head football coach
Sean McDonnell
on Wednesday night unveiled details about the Service Credit Union Victory Club that will be a centerpiece of the soon-to-open Wildcat Stadium.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
A crew dismantled the Dungeon on Tuesday. The stands in one end zone, the student section of Cowell Stadium, were being taken apart in anticipation of the UNH football team’s offseason. At the same time, not far away on the back side of the new Wildcat Stadium, a line of heavy-duty lifts delivered materials to the upper reaches of the under-construction facility and workers carried out their duties on various levels of the building.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
And then there were two. The UNH football team will close the curtain on Cowell Stadium in short order. The Wildcats have three games remaining in the 2015 regular season and two of them are in their old facility.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
For the better part of a week, players, coaches, athletic trainers, staff members and others in and around the UNH Field House were invited to take Sharpie to steel and sign the final beam to be put in place atop the new Wildcat Stadium.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
The crane at the Wildcat Stadium construction site has been lifting beams to the highest points on the facility this week and the bulk of the main steel work will be done shortly.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
A giant crane carried out its duties at the front of the new Wildcat Stadium on Thursday morning, lifting steel beam after steel beam high onto the facility.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Many UNH football fans got their first look at the new, under-construction Wildcat Stadium last Saturday during the team’s 57-14 win over Central Connecticut State University.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
UNH athletics director Marty Scarano spent a few days last week in sunny California with the Wildcat football team. He kept thinking about Durham.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Up We Go: First Steel Rises in Stadium
DURHAM, N.H. —
Crews assembled a towering 80-ton crane on the site of the new UNH Stadium on Tuesday.The crane went to work on a steamy Wednesday afternoon and began lifting into place the steel that will form the skeleton of the building and help bring the multi-purpose facility to life.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
The concrete kept coming on Wednesday morning on the site of the new UNH stadium.
Live Stream
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Let there be more lights. A towering crane raised another light tower in the UNH stadium on Tuesday morning. The lights are now set and in place for the new stadium. There are four towers on what will be the new home side of the field and two opposite them.
Friday, July 31, 2015
Turn the page. Here comes August. For the new UNH stadium taking shape behind the Field House it will be a month to start reaching skyward.
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Concrete was being poured this week for the new Stadium.
Going Up: Concrete Pour Begins In New Stadium
A couple of cement trucks rolled onto the construction site for the new UNH Stadium early on Thursday morning. The Stadium is heading upwards. Concrete pouring will be a major focus at the project site for the next six weeks or so.
Thursday, July 2
Pouring Of Concrete On Tap in Stadium Project
The pile-driving crane, its job complete, has left the site. A crew dismantled the crane and loaded it onto flatbed trucks on Thursday as setup and construction work continued on UNH’s new stadium site.
Thurs. June 18, 2015
Pile Driving Takes Top Billing In Stadium Project
Blasting gave way to pile driving this week on the site of the new UNH stadium. A crane operator began driving steel H-beams on Tuesday and it will take probably two to three weeks to sink about 140 beams that are the start of the foundation for the stadium, which will stand just over 80 feet.
Ground Breaking Ceremony
June 3, 2015
Fri. June 12, 2015
DURHAM, N.H. —
They were having a, well, blast on a sunny and hot Thursday afternoon at the UNH Stadium construction site. One of the projects over the next week or so in the stadium will be to blast and remove ledge that sits at the scoreboard end of the field where drainage trenches and other elements of the stadium will be.
Wed. June 3, 2015
DURHAM, N.H. —
It was a gorgeous night for a groundbreaking. More importantly, as president Mark Huddleston noted to a group of special friends of UNH on Friday night in the east end zone of Cowell Stadium, it was a beautiful event for a beautiful late May night.
Wed. May 20, 2015
Wed. May 20, 2015
Construction on the stadium has begun!
Tue. May 12, 2015
View a photo gallery of the latest renderings
Mon. December 15, 2014
Stadium Spectator Visualization: a virtual tour of the stadium design.
Wed. October 1, 2014
Marty Scarano, Director of Athletics at UNH, talks about the new stadium on
Inside Wildcat Country
.
Thurs. August 28, 2014
The fifth and final light pole at Cowell Stadium went up today!
Mon. August 25, 2014
Bleacher construction is well underway.
Tues. August 12, 2014
The second of five light poles was put into place, and No. 1 was turned on.
Thurs. July 31, 2014
The first light pole has been put into place.
Tues. July 29, 2014
Stadium lights have arrived – set to go up THIS week!
Wed. July 16, 2014
Prep work for lights is nearly complete – light poles are scheduled to arrive next week.
Mon. July 7, 2014
All five light post footings have been constructed.
Thurs. June 19, 2014
Light construction continues on the nearside of Cowell Stadiium.
Wed. June 11, 2014
The three pier footings for the lights on the side opposite the field house have been filled with concrete while the base structure for one on the home-side of the stadium has been placed. Trenches spanning the length of the three pier footings have been dug for electrical lines for the lights.
Thurs. June 5, 2014
The access road has been laid and concrete has been poured in preparation for light installation.
Tues. May 20, 2014
The access road behind the west side of the stadium has been laid out, and holes have been dug in preparation for light installation.
Fri. May 16, 2014
Cowell Stadium renovations continue with the wall in front of the south stands coming down.
Thurs. May 8, 2014
Renovations begin with the demolition of some seating.