Below are photos and information about the on-campus athletic facilities at Louisiana College. Click on the sport to jump to that facility.
Football ~ Soccer
Basketball ~ Volleyball
Baseball
Softball
Tennis
Wildcat Field (Football; Men's and Women's Soccer)
Wildcat Field was opened on October 25th, 2008. It is a state-of-the art grassy-turf field. Both the LC football and men's and women's soccer teams call Wildcat Field home. For football, it is the first on campus stadium in 40-years. For soccer it provides one of the best playing fields in all of NCAA Division III. Currently, the stadium phase is still under construction.
H.O. West Fieldhouse (Men's and Women's Basketball; Volleyball)
H.O. West Fieldhouse has served as the home of the storied men's and women's basketball programs at Louisiana College since the late 1960's. It's 4,800 capacity makes it one of the largest, on-campus, NCAA Division III facilities for basketball and volleyball in the country.
West Fieldhouse also houses classrooms for the Louisiana College Health and P.E. Department, locker rooms for men's and women's soccer and men's and women's basketball, a full-service athletic training room, athletic training classrooms, and coaches' offices.
Billy Allgood Field - Skip Converse Fieldhouse (Baseball)
Billy Allgood Field, also known at "The Billy", was originally built in the early 1970's, when baseball was restarted at LC after a hiatus. The field remained basically the same until Mike Byrnes was hired in the spring of 2000.
Since Byrnes' arrival, over $1,000,000 worth of improvements have been implemented, all through private donations. An outfield wall, new scoreboard, message center on the scoreboard, new batting cages, a perimeter fence surrounding the facilities, chair back seats, a cover over the stands, a new press box, a new sound-system, walkways in front of the dugouts, a brick backstop, along with great improvements to the playing surface have all been installed or built under Byrnes.
The newest building addition is the Skip Converse Fieldhouse, which is a 2400 square foot facility that houses a players' lounge, locker room, player showers and restroom, and coaches offices. Billy Allgood Field underwent its biggest field improvement to date in 2016 with the addition of a full turf infield, making it one of the premiere fields in the area.
Dimensions: 325' LF, 365' LCF, 390' CF, 355 RCF', 315' RF with a 12 foot wall all-around and a 16-foot wall in center field.
Wildcat Park (Softball)
Wildcat Park serves as the home for the nationally prominent Louisiana College softball team. The field, which was constructed in 2001, was made possible because of a generous donation from the Coca-Cola Company.
It is one of the premier softball facilities in the state of Louisiana and all of NCAA Division III. It has a full service pressbox and concession stand located directly behind the playing field. It has brick dugouts and a brick backstop along with a metal wall in the outfield. For fans, the capacity of the stadium is over 300, with 60 chair back seats available. There is also standing room down both foul lines. A full locker-room expansion was added to the third-base home dugout in 2007. In 2017 the infield dirt was replaced by state-of-the-art field turf that encompasses the entire infield playing area.
In it's short time in existence, it has served as a host to an NCAA Division III Softball regional, LHSAA softball playoff games, LHSCA all-star games, and Louisiana College Tournaments that attract teams from all over the country.
Richard L. Crowell Tennis Center (Men's and Women's Tennis)
The Richard Crowell Tennis Complex serves at the home of both the LC men's and women's tennis teams. It was originally built in 1997 where the LC Healthplex now stands. It was relocated to its current location near the football field in 2001. It is one of the best, on-campus, tennis complexes in the American Southwest Conference. In 2016 the four court complex was updated with a new surface and lines.
