NSU designates new soccer and lacrosse stadium

By Santiago Diaz Finochietto •

Following a successful athletics year at Nova Southeastern University with the crowning of women’s swimming, men’s basketball and men’s golf as NCAA Division II National Champions, the NSU Athletics Department placed seventh overall in the final standings for the 2022-23 Learfield Directors’ Cup Division II, highest in department history.

Now, with the 2023-24 athletic year starting in the fall, NSU’s Athletics Department is not looking to slow down. On Sept. 19, 2022, after announcing the addition of women’s and men’s lacrosse programs, the department went a step further by declaring the former Miami Dolphins training stadium as the new home of the women’s and men’s lacrosse and soccer programs by the 2023-24 season.

“We are excited about the opening of this new facility because it can show us where we can go and the possibilities out there for us to grow,” said John Sung, NSU associate athletics director for external operations.

As of today, the stadium is still under renovation and ongoing construction.

“This past winter, we held practice and friendlies in the former Miami Dolphins facility to get used to the field. This year, there is a different feeling with the new stadium,” said junior men’s soccer forward Santiago Rodriguez Marengo.

Stadium features

The NSU Soccer and Lacrosse Stadium is a 2,000-seat facility that will feature competition and turf practice fields with new locker rooms for home and visiting soccer and lacrosse teams. To renovate the stadium, the NSU Athletics Department looks to line the field correctly, add fencing and move the field and team benches to have a clearer vision from the stands.

“Once we add the scoreboard and finish details in this stadium, we are confident enough to say it is going to be one of the best soccer and lacrosse facilities of the division,” Sung said.

Home to 11 National Championship teams, NSU’s Athletics Department continues to look into the future with bright eyes. The NSU Soccer and Lacrosse Stadium is the face of a new era.

“This shows the commitment we have to our athletics teams and community,” Sung said. “NSU is a world-class research facility institution, and so we, as NSU’s Athletics Department, want to mirror what the campus is doing.”