Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field, Football stadium at Prairie View A&M University, Texas, United States
Panther Stadium at Blackshear Field is a football stadium on the campus of Prairie View A&M University in Texas. It offers several seating sections along with skyboxes, premium areas, and a field house that contains locker rooms, training spaces, and academic support rooms for student athletes.
The stadium was announced in 2014 as a roughly $60 million project on the site of the old Edward L. Blackshear Field. The Texas A&M board of regents approved it in early 2015, and the old field was demolished that fall, so Prairie View A&M played its 2015 home games at a local high school. The inaugural game in the new stadium was played on September 3, 2016, against Texas Southern.
The stadium's name honours Edward L. Blackshear, the educator for whom the earlier field on the same campus ground was named. Alumni fundraising led by Roy Perry, starting with the Prairie View A&M Foundation in 2009, paid for much of the build, and students raised nearly two-thirds of the funds.
The stadium sits directly on the university campus, which makes it easy to find once you are on the grounds. Coming early before games is a good idea, as parking fills up quickly when large crowds arrive.
Students supplied nearly two-thirds of the money for the $60 million stadium, part of a fundraising drive that began in 2009 when Roy Perry led alumni to raise about $30 million and set up the Prairie View A&M Foundation, with $10 million earmarked for football stadium work.
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