Helen and Leonard Moretz Stadium
The Helen and Leonard Moretz Stadium has been home to the Lenoir-Rhyne Football program since the early 1920s. The Bears' home football facility was renamed in 1989 the Helen & Leonard Moretz Stadium, honoring two longtime Lenoir-Rhyne supporters. Originally, it also shared time with the baseball program until a new baseball field was constructed and major renovations were given to Moretz Stadium.
A state-of-the-art upgrade at the facility was completed in the summer of 2022 which turned one of the best gameday environments in Division II into one of the best facilities in the nation. The $18M campaign saw the total knock-down and rebuild of the press box and the home stadium bleachers. The middle section of the bleachers features seat back seating for the members of the Bears Club and underneath the bleachers is a new concourse with concessions and restrooms. In the press box, eight suites were constructed and an elevator was installed. New lights were installed at the stadium along with a brand new sound system, a VIP covered club seating suite in the west side corner of the closed end zone as well as a private corporate suite in the east side corner end zone. A new tunnel was constructed for a dynamic team entrance right next to one of those corner suites and LR became one of the only Division II schools to have two videoboards in the venue. One oversized in the open end zone that is the third-largest in all of Division II and one on the back wall of the gym. A new entrance to the stadium was built along with a shade canopy on the east side. A new fieldhouse for both the men’s and women’s lacrosse programs that includes locker rooms and a team lounge for both the men's and women's lacrosse teams was also constructed.
Neill McGeachy Center
VIRTUAL TOUR (Classroom Meeting Space)
VIRTUAL TOUR (Bears Club Pavilion and Sports Performance Center)
Announced in August 2018, the $3.2 million facility was fundraised and built in just 12 months time. Officially opened on Saturday, September 7, 2019 the Neill McGeachy Sports Performance Center features 14,000 square feet of new and enhanced multiuse training space, a weight room, nutrition bar, indoor turf training area, dedicated team meeting rooms, additional coaches' offices, and a covered Bears Club pavilion. The facility supports student-athletes in all 22 intercollegiate sports in both sports performance and personal development. The center also supports the growing needs of the Bears Club by providing a covered pavilion for hosting game-day hospitality events, as well as providing dynamic engagement space for teams and the broader campus community to use throughout the year.
Lenoir-Rhyne installed brand new Field Turf in the summer of 2023 to complete the multi-phase renovation.
Moretz Stadium is the largest on-campus stadium in the South Atlantic Conference with a capacity of 7200 with the opportunity to expand to up to 10,000 in the future. The stadium is the 4th oldest stadium in all of Division II and is widely recognized as one of the finest small college football stadiums in the nation. In addition, Moretz Stadium became home to the men's and women's lacrosse teams after the programs' addition in 2011.
Since 2010, Moretz Stadium is also the home of Lenoir-Rhyne Men's and Women's Lacrosse. The facility hosted the 2018 and 2021 Men's Lacrosse NCAA National Semifinal games and has been home to a combined nine SAC Regular Season and Conference Tournament Championships between the men's and women's lax programs since inception. It has also been the host of 10 NCAA Playoff football games and the home of the 2023 National Championship winning Men's Lacrosse team.