The James M. Shuart Stadium is an 11,929-seat multi-purpose stadium and sports facility, the facility serves as the home to Hofstra's lacrosse teams on the campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York . First opened in 1963, and remodeled in 1996 and 2013, it was known as "Hofstra Stadium" until August 29, 2002, when it was renamed after the former president of Hofstra University , who played lacrosse and football during his undergraduate years at the school.
24-525: The stadium grounds include James C. Metzger Hall which houses the stadium's press box, luxury suites and the Fried Center for Student-Athlete Development. Shuart Stadium has held numerous sports and events over the years, including football, lacrosse, and soccer. It has welcomed many teams from different leagues throughout several decades. In 1971, the stadium hosted the inaugural NCAA Division I Men's lacrosse championship game. It has also served as
48-522: A complete-system approach, in which it would oversee the manufacturing of its own poles and pre-cast concrete base. Other events that featured Musco's lighting that decade included the 1983 Super Bowl , the 1984 Olympic Games , and the rededication ceremony for the Statue of Liberty . The company's Light-Structure System was installed at Howard J. Lamade Stadium in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, for
72-754: A game the following season between the University of Notre Dame and the University of Michigan . Throughout the 1980s, Musco's mobile lighting system, which was named the Musco Light, was used at other venues, events, and on the production sets of motion pictures, including All the Right Moves . Later in the decade, Musco introduced the SportsCluster2 system, along with new technologies designed to reduce glare including its Level-8 and Total Light Control products. The company began work on
96-512: A newly-build stadium in Dyersville, Iowa , adjacent to the field featured in the motion picture Field of Dreams . On August 12, 2021 Major League Baseball staged the MLB at Field of Dreams event at the newly-built stadium. Projects for the company in 2022 included the installation of a custom TLC for LED system at Manchester United FC's home ground Old Trafford . In 2024, Musco installed
120-582: The Illuminating Engineering Society . Throughout the 1990s, Musco's Mirtran technology was installed at other NASCAR tracks, including Richmond Raceway , Bristol Motor Speedway , Las Vegas Motor Speedway , and Daytona International Speedway . The decade also brought about the company's first global expansion, with a lighting system installed at Dunstall Park Wolverhampton Racecourse in England. Queen Elizabeth II attended
144-713: The NCAA Division I , Division II , and Division III . This tournament has determined the national champion since the inaugural 1971 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship . Prior to this, from 1936 through 1970, the executive board of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) selected the annual winners of the Wingate Memorial Trophy as national champions based on season records. The NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship, with
168-473: The U.S. Soccer Foundation 's It's Everyone's Game movement, Musco engineered the Mini-Pitch System, a modular mini soccer pitch used to expand recreational opportunities for youth in underserved communities. Musco also installed systems at Notre Dame Stadium , L.A. Memorial Coliseum , Wimbledon Centre Court , AO Arena Manchester , and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium . The TLC for LED system
192-718: The United Football League played a home game at the stadium. The site has hosted both the Long Island All-Star Football Game and the Fun City Bowl, which features the New York City Police and Fire Department teams. The facility was used for three nights every October for the annual Newsday Marching Band Festival where selected Long Island high schools performed in an exhibition-style competition. Since 2014,
216-473: The 1992 Little League World Series. This led to a partnership between Musco and Little League Baseball and Softball focused on player safety initiatives. Also in 1991, Musco was contacted by NASCAR to develop a lighting system for a race the following year at Charlotte Motor Speedway . It would be the first night race in NASCAR history. To help development of the system, Musco built a 50:1 scale model of
240-621: The Middle East, and Australia. Entering the 1980s, Musco worked to improve its SportsCluster system, while developing a mobile sports lighting product. In 1980, the team tested its original mobile lighting system at the University of Iowa's Kinnick Stadium . Two years later, executives from ABC Sports , who had been at the system's test in Iowa City, contacted Musco about utilizing the company's mobile lighting at Notre Dame Stadium for
264-498: The development of a lighting system to be donated for use at the Washington Monument , adapting its Mirtan technology to be applied vertically to illuminate the monument's façade. In 2008 Musco started research and development on the utilization of light emitting diodes (LED) as a light source for sports fields and other large outdoor applications. Later that year, Musco donated a custom LED system for use in lighting
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#1732772557461288-400: The event has been held elsewhere. Various Long Island high school and New York state championship games for different sports are also held at the site. Originally built in 1962 and opened in 1963, the stadium has received a number of upgrades. In 1968 a new artificial playing surface was installed, making the stadium the third college facility in the nation to receive one. A major expansion
312-784: The façade of the White House . At the close of the decade, Musco installed Mirtran systems at Losail International Circuit in Qatar and Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. In 2010, Musco partnered with the National Park Service in the construction of a Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, donating lighting systems for the Memorial Plaza, public areas, and paneled wall inscribed with
336-1167: The names of the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 . Also in 2010, Musco engineered a lighting system using LED light source technology to be installed at the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge . In 2013, Musco installed an LED sports lighting system at Arizona State University's Wells Fargo Arena . Over the next few years the company would install LED systems at LakePoint Sporting Community in Emerson, Georgia; NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas; Petco Park in San Diego, California; Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas; and at Twickenham Stadium . and Emirates Stadium In 2017, TLC for LED systems were installed at three Major League Baseball stadiums, four National Football League stadiums, and four National Basketball Association / National Hockey League arenas. That same year, in partnership with
360-892: The semi-finals and finals played in National Football League stadiums, is among the most attended NCAA Championships. This lacrosse -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Musco Lighting Musco Lighting , often referred to as Musco, is a privately-held company that specializes designs and manufactures sports lighting, transportation and infrastructure lighting, automated sports broadcasting, and modular sports venue products. The company's headquarters are in Oskaloosa, Iowa , with manufacturing plants in Muscatine, Iowa ; Incheon, South Korea; and Shanghai, China. Musco also has offices throughout North America, Europe, Central America,
384-427: The site for two quarterfinal games of the 2009 , 2014 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 , 2021 and 2024 tournaments as well as numerous conference championship contests for Women's Lacrosse. The New York Lizards used the facility as their home field for part of the 2001 season and the full 2002 season. During their first year, they became the inaugural Major League Lacrosse champions . The team returned in 2009 and called
408-589: The stadium between 1972 and 1973. They won their first NASL Championship at the stadium in 1972 . The new Cosmos began playing there in 2013 . Shuart Stadium also played host to the most recent United States men's match in New York state, when the U.S. hosted Ecuador in a friendly match on November 30, 1984. Shuart Stadium was also the venue for the Long Island Rough Riders of professional soccer's A-League . For nearly five decades,
432-629: The stadium their official home until 2020. After the 2020 season the MLL merged with the Premier Lacrosse League bringing an end to the New York Lizards franchise. In 2021 the stadium hosted 5 Premier Lacrosse League games over 4 July weekend. Making the stadium a tour site for future PLL events. PLL hosted a weekend of games in 2022 and is the 2023 Semifinals site on September 10. The original New York Cosmos played at
456-614: The stadium was home to Hofstra's football team . The team played in the Colonial Athletic Association conference and utilized the stadium from its opening until 2009 when the program was retired. In 1983, during the construction of Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium , the Columbia Lions used it as a home field for one game. On November 4, 2009, the New York Sentinels of
480-599: The track at its manufacturing plant in Iowa, and company co-founder Myron Gordin enrolled in the Richard Petty NASCAR driving school to witness the demands of sight lines at high speeds. The project led to the creation of Musco's Mirtran system, which featured lights that were aimed away from the track onto secondary, ground-level mirrors that bounced the light back onto the racing surface. The project earned Musco an IES Illumination Award for Outdoor Lighting Design by
504-723: The unveiling event and dedicated the new lighting at the track. In 1995 when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was bombed in a domestic terror attack, members of Musco's mobile lighting team were dispatched to the site. On September 11, 2001, after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon , several of Musco's mobile lighting trucks assisted with rescue and recovery efforts at both sites. In 2006, Musco started
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#1732772557461528-468: Was also installed at several collegiate stadiums, high school stadiums, Little League fields, parks and recreation fields, and at major airports and port terminals including Vancouver International Airport , Los Angeles International Airport , McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, and DP World Jebel Ali Port Terminals 1 and 2. In 2021, Musco installed its TLC for LED and ShowLight systems at
552-475: Was completed in the fall of 1996. The capacity had been raised from 7,000 to approximately 13,000, while the Howdy Myers Pavilion and new scoreboards in both end zones were constructed. In 2007, the artificial turf was replaced with FieldTurf which was again replaced in late 2012. Then in 2009 new scoreboards were installed in the north and south end zones. More recently, in 2013, the facility
576-452: Was renovated and reconfigured to its current capacity of 11,929. In late 2013, new lights designed by Musco Lighting replaced the original lights in the stadium that dated back to 1963. NCAA Men%27s Lacrosse Championship NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship refers to one of three championships in men's field lacrosse contested by the NCAA since 1971 to determine the top team in
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