Kennedy-Stark Athletic Center
Kennedy-Stark Athletic Center
Men's Track and Field
Women's Track and Field
Football
The Kennedy-Stark Athletic Center will contain 100 yards of turf encompassed by a six-lane 300-meter oval track. The north end of the facility features the building's main entrance, a meeting room and restrooms. Inside the pre-engineered metal building supported by steel beams, a full drop curtain surrounding the football turf allows for a safe environment for multiple simultaneous sporting activities.
The FieldTurf football surface provides an 80-yard playing field and two 10-yard end zones.
The track oval will be a full-pour polyurethane surface composed of BSS 1000 encapsulated texture surface, the same as the program's outdoor track, and will be installed by the Beynon Sports track surfacing company. The facility features two competition throwing rings, an approach apron for the high jump, and runways and pits for the pole vault, long jump, and triple jump. The IAC location displaces the current outdoor track hammer and discus throwing area, which will be relocated south of the outdoor track. A walkway connecting the current seating area to the new outdoor throwing areas will be constructed.
Located west of MSU's outdoor track with a northwest-to-southeast orientation, the facility will be available to Bobcat varsity student-athletes during daytime hours and to community sports groups during specified evening and weekend hours.
The $25,500,000 project is 100-percent donor financed, designed by 45 Architecture & Interiors, will be constructed by Langlas & Associates, general contractor, and managed by MSU Planning, Design and Construction.
Kennedy-Stark Athletic Center is named in honor of legendary MSU track and field coaches Rob Stark and Dale Kennedy.
Stark coached the Bobcat men's program from 1977 until his retirement after the 2000 season. At that point Kennedy, who had coached the MSU women's team since 1983, took over the combined men's and women's program until his retirement after the 2018 campaign.
The FieldTurf football surface provides an 80-yard playing field and two 10-yard end zones.
The track oval will be a full-pour polyurethane surface composed of BSS 1000 encapsulated texture surface, the same as the program's outdoor track, and will be installed by the Beynon Sports track surfacing company. The facility features two competition throwing rings, an approach apron for the high jump, and runways and pits for the pole vault, long jump, and triple jump. The IAC location displaces the current outdoor track hammer and discus throwing area, which will be relocated south of the outdoor track. A walkway connecting the current seating area to the new outdoor throwing areas will be constructed.
Located west of MSU's outdoor track with a northwest-to-southeast orientation, the facility will be available to Bobcat varsity student-athletes during daytime hours and to community sports groups during specified evening and weekend hours.
The $25,500,000 project is 100-percent donor financed, designed by 45 Architecture & Interiors, will be constructed by Langlas & Associates, general contractor, and managed by MSU Planning, Design and Construction.
Kennedy-Stark Athletic Center is named in honor of legendary MSU track and field coaches Rob Stark and Dale Kennedy.
Stark coached the Bobcat men's program from 1977 until his retirement after the 2000 season. At that point Kennedy, who had coached the MSU women's team since 1983, took over the combined men's and women's program until his retirement after the 2018 campaign.
Big Sky Preview
Friday, February 11
Track and Field Big Sky Championships
Monday, February 18
Coach Kennedy - Feb. 11, 2013
Tuesday, February 12
Coach Kennedy - Feb. 4, 2013
Tuesday, February 05
