In the past decade, NDSU has opened new competition venues on campus for basketball, wrestling, softball and indoor track & field, in addition to significant facility upgrades for volleyball at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse and soccer at Dacotah Field. Other new training facilities include the Nodak Insurance Company Football Performance Complex, Nodak Insurance Company Basketball Performance Center, the golf indoor short game facility, as well as strength & conditioning and sports medicine amenities in the Sanford Health Athletic Complex.
These construction efforts and upgrades continued most recently with the new outdoor Terrance Dahl and Donna Beres Track Complex. This privately-funded $5 million complex renovation is set to be completed in two phases with the second phase to be completed in 2023. The complex officially opened for use in the Fall of 2022 and will serve as the new home for the NDSU men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams.
The renovation saw an overhaul of all aspects of the facility. Competition areas and surfaces have been replaced, including the eight-lane 400-meter track under the direction of Hellas Construction. The track surface is a state-of-the-art Hellas EpiQ G4000 Full Pour system. Within the field it also includes three dual-direction pole vault runways and two dual-direction horizontal jump runways. Multiple competition areas for the shot put, discus, hammer, javelin and high jump will be located inside the oval, with jumps runways on the east side of the track.
Fans and spectators will be seated in a new 2,136 capacity grandstand on the west side of the track overlooking the traditional home straightaway, running north to south. On the south end of the complex sits a 25-foot by 13-foot Daktronics video board with an integrated sound system to present official timing and results.
At the west finish line, the Don Larson Press Box will sit atop the new grandstand for meet management. The complex will also be outfitted with a full concession stand with restrooms at the north end of the grandstand.
Upon the completion of the outdoor track, the NDSU athletics facilities overhaul has totaled $130 million in projects over the past decade.
