Maverick Stadium, Multi-purpose stadium in Arlington, United States
Maverick Stadium is a 12,000-seat multi-purpose stadium on the western edge of the University of Texas at Arlington campus. It has a FieldTurf playing field circled by a 400-meter Polytan USA track, with west stands seating about 8,000 and east stands about 4,500. A three-story press box above the west stands holds 168 people, and the Gilstrap Athletic Center stands just north of the west stands.
Maverick Stadium replaced Memorial Stadium, the on-campus venue UTA left after the 1969 season and which was demolished in winter 1973. UTA played from 1970 at an off-campus multi-purpose stadium shared with the Texas Rangers, whose 24-hour control clause forced the 1974 home opener to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The university dropped football after the final game of the 1985 season, and the venue has since served track and field.
Maverick Stadium hosts the annual Texas Scottish Festival and Highland Games, one of several events held on its FieldTurf field and 400-meter track. The same grounds stage the Special Olympics and the Bed Races, a UTA tradition each fall in which teams push decorated beds. The stadium is also home to the Texas Elite Spartans of the Women's National Football Conference.
Fans mainly enter from the south, where a seven-window ticket booth faces a 677-space parking lot; the home entrance is west of the booth and the visitors entrance east. A second seven-window ticket booth and entrance stand on the east side behind the east stands. The Gilstrap Athletic Center sits directly north of the west stands.
The stadium's west stands hold about 8,000 seats, 1,831 of them chair-back seats in the centre section, while the east side seats roughly 4,500. Plans drawn up for the venue allow for expansion to 26,000 by extending both ends of each stand past the end zones.
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