OUR FACILITIES
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ORNELAS STADIUM - Football
ETBU's football stadium was completed in enough time to welcome the university's first football team in a half-century in the fall of 2000. In fact, the Tigers have played all but one home game in the confines of their cozy, beautiful home, as the facility officially opened on Oct. 7, 2000, when ETBU dropped a heartbreaking 34-28 loss in overtime to Austin College. The facility sits behind the football program's renovated field house, the old Carlile-Howell Building, which houses locker rooms, offices, a state-of-the-art training room as well as a renovated weight room. The stadium was made possible with a gift from the Ornelas family of Tyler, Texas. Lights were added to the stadium and practice field in 2009.
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ORNELAS GYMNASIUM - Basketball/Volleyball
Ornelas Gymnasium serves as the home for ETBU's men's and women's basketball programs as well as Lady Tiger volleyball. The bowl-shaped arena was completed in 1995 and will seat up to 1,700 fans at capacity. ETBU's indoor programs have combined to win 11 ASC conference or division championships since joining the league in 1998. The facility was named after the Ornelas family of Tyler, Texas.
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 CORNISH FIELD - Soccer
Cornish Field is named after longtime ETBU Board of Trustees member Mr. Hal Cornish, whose monetary gift in 2007 helped give ETBU's soccer facility a much-needed upgrade in terms of landscaping and seating and overall appearance. Mr. Randy Adair, father of fomer Lady Tiger star Brooke Adair, provided the facility with lights in time for the 2005 season, and the field itself was constructed and opened for use by ETBU's men's and women's soccer programs in 2002.
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 WOODS FIELD - Baseball
Woods Field has served as the home for Tiger baseball since the program's inception in the mid-1960s. The park has seen numerous upgrades in recent years, most notably the addition of lights for the 2008 season that made nighttime baseball a reality for the first time at ETBU. The field was named after Mr. J. Lloyd Woods, of Tenaha, Texas, who donated the funds used to purchase and install the lights over the offseason. Mr. Woods passed away just 10 days after throwing out the first pitch for the first-ever night baseball game on the ETBU campus.
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 TAYLOR FIELD - Softball
Taylor Field opened in 1998 as the home of ETBU's first-year softball program that spring. The program has since grown into one of the most traditionally-successful programs within ETBU's athletic department, winning five straight American Southwest Conference championships and earning 10 straight trips to the ASC's postseason tournament. The facility was originally constructed with a gift from Earl and Louise Taylor, and a renovated version of the park, including a new press box/locker room area, opened in 2005 with a gift from Mr. Welby C. Edwards. The facility hosted the 2009 NCAA West Regional, marking the first time an NCAA event has been hosted on ETBU's campus since a 2003 football playoff game.
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