Facilities

5K Corral Field at DeWitt Family Stadium

The 5K Corral Field at William O. DeWitt '63 Family Stadium, which hosted its first game on April 13, 2001, is the home of Yale softball. The 350-seat stadium designed by architect Brian A. Ameche, AIA '75 of New Haven and built by Clark Construction Company of Delhi, N.Y., is set against a wooded hillside which serves as a natural
wind screen and at the same time provides for a magnificent backdrop for the stadium.

Perched overlooking the backstop fence is a fully enclosed press box. Adjacent to the stadium is the Johnson Field, a 750-seat artificial turf stadium, the home of Yale field hockey.

Prior to the 2018 season, the stadium underwent a major upgrade. The dirt and grass were replaced by state-of- the-art field turf. In addition to the field surface, there also were upgrades to the bullpens, batting cages, outfield fences and dugouts. The renovations were made possible by Karen Yarasavage ’87 and Kevin Genda ’87. Yarasavage, a four-year letter winner for the Bulldogs, was a four-time All-Ivy selection, including earning first team honors three times in her outstanding career.

The installation of the field turf is one of two exciting additions to the DeWitt Family Stadium area. The Carol McPhillips Roberts Field House, a comprehensive space that meets the training and programmatic needs of softball and field hockey, opened in 2018. Built between Johnson Field and DeWitt Family Field, the building includes spacious locker rooms with custom wood lockers, a training room, satellite coach’s offices and team meeting space, a second story observation roof deck featuring a glass-walled event space, and public restrooms.

We also have three tunnels of turf batting cages beyond left field of the stadium. A top notch facility not only in the Northeast, but the country!