Memorial Stadium, Sports stadium in Bakersfield, United States.
Memorial Stadium is a double-decked concrete and steel stadium at the corner of University Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue on the Bakersfield College campus in northeast Bakersfield, near the Panorama Bluffs. It seats 19,468 people, with standing room for close to 24,000. The field has an artificial surface installed in July 2019, ringed by an all-weather track.
The stadium opened in 1955 as the first building on what would become Bakersfield College, arriving before the institution officially established itself. This early construction made it a foundational part of the college's growth and development.
The venue was designed as a memorial to fallen soldiers from both World Wars, a purpose reflected in its name and identity. It has served as the home of Bakersfield College Renegades athletics for generations and remains central to the college's sports identity.
Memorial Stadium sits at the corner of University Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue on the Bakersfield College campus in northeast Bakersfield, near the Panorama Bluffs. The field lies inside an all-weather track, so the playing surface is narrower than a standard soccer pitch. High school games are held here mainly during playoffs, when an on-campus field is too small for the expected crowd.
The largest crowd at Memorial Stadium was 23,701, for a high school game on October 1, 1994, when Bakersfield High School hosted Bishop Amat Memorial High School of La Puente; Bishop Amat, ranked No. 1 nationally, won 34-3. The stadium's track, once surfaced in crushed brick, is where Jim Ryun set a one-mile world record in 1967, a run shown on ABC's Wide World of Sports.
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