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Little Giant Stadium

 Little Giant Stadium is the new home for the Wabash College football and track and field programs.

The $13 million Little Giant Stadium includes seating for 3,550 fans in the main grandstand, suites, and the W Club Lounge. The new facility also includes game operations and media booths, relocated scoreboard, a new playing surface, all-weather track, and expanded restroom and upgraded concession areas. Within the main concourse is the Hall of Giants, which pays tribute to Wabash's accomplishments in intercollegiate athletics.

Wabash is the fifth-winningest football program in NCAA Division III. The Little Giants have posted a 180-40 record since 2001 (.818), won nine North Coast Athletic Conference Championships, and made the Division III Playoffs eight times over that span.

The College's track and field team, which also competes in the stadium, has won 19 indoor and outdoor North Coast Athletic Conference Championships since 2011.

The new Little Giant Stadium was designed by the DLR Group in Kansas City, which has a proven record of excellence in stadium design for more than 30 years. Indianapolis-based FA Wilhelm Construction served as the project's construction manager.

Donors to the Little Giant Stadium project chose to pay tribute to former Wabash football coach Frank Navarro by naming the playing field in his honor. Navarro coached the Little Giants from 1974 to 1977. His 1977 team posted an 11-2 record and advanced to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl (the Division III National Championship game). The clock ran out on Wabash in a 39-36 shootout loss to Widener in the title game.

Navarro's 1976 team went 7-3 to post the College's first winning season in 10 years, and he led Wabash to 5-0 home records in both 1976 and 1977.

Gifts for the construction of Little Giant Stadium and renovation of Lilly Library are made possible through Wabash's historic $225 million Giant Steps Campaign — the largest comprehensive fund-raising campaign in the College's history.

Facility Facts:

  •     Total seating capacity (home stands only) - 3,550
  •     254 chair-back seats
  •     Frank Navarro Field playing surface - FieldTurf Revolution 360
  •     Huntsman Family Track surface - Beynon Sports Surface
  •     290 tons of steel
  •     33,375 modular bricks
  •     235 pieces of cut limestone
  •     54,500 lineal feet of conduit
  •     175,000 lineal feet of wire