TOWSON, Md. – This afternoon, the Towson University women's soccer team opens the 2019 season when it hosts Old Dominion at the Tiger Soccer Complex. The game will be the first contested on the new lower fields area located southwest of Johnny Unitas® Stadium and below SECU Arena.  The two-phase project is being financed by a combination of state funds, private gifts and University funds.

The first phase includes two full-field surfaces, with lighting and scoreboards, for all of Towson's field sports (football, soccer, men's and women's lacrosse) and a third practice field.

"It is just one more thing that we are doing to invest in this program," Towson Athletics Director Tim Leonard said. "We talk all the time about the things we need to do to win championships. One of those is that we have to have championship quality facilities and now this addresses a number of needs for us, both from a game day field and practice fields."

From November 2018 to July 2019, a combination of time-lapse construction camera and three Drone flights captured the process from start to finish. Towson Sports Network documented the nine months of construction in minutes.
Phase two of the plan, which will include a new grandstand and additional buildings for concessions, restrooms, and a press box, will begin later this year.

This is the latest facility enhancement project for Towson. Last fall, the new TU Field Hockey Complex was unveiled.

"I have to give thanks to Mike Busch, the late Speaker of the House," added Leonard. "He was such an instrumental part of this project, getting it off the ground. I wish he could have seen it. He would have been very proud. I have to also thank our President, Dr. Kim Schatzel. If not for her and Speaker Busch, we don't have these fields."

Towson University offers the most comprehensive sports program in the Baltimore metropolitan area, fielding 19 NCAA Division I varsity teams that compete in the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA), one the nation's top mid-major conferences. Men's teams include baseball, basketball, football, golf, lacrosse and swimming & diving. Women's teams include basketball, cross country, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, lacrosse, softball, soccer, swimming & diving, indoor and outdoor track & field, tennis and volleyball. Since joining the CAA in 2001, the Tigers have won league titles in football, women's basketball, men's and women's lacrosse, baseball, women's swimming & diving and men's golf.