Johnson
Field opened as the new home of Yale Field Hockey and Women's Lacrosse
in the spring of 2000. The 750-seat synthetic turf complex sits adjacent
to the "William O. DeWitt Jr. '63 Family Field" the home of Yale Softball.
Stadium seating for the Johnson Field is along the east side of the
complex. Entrance to the bleacher stadium is up a concourse walkway
behind the seats with bridge access to the bleachers from the top level
preventing interference with spectators in their seats viewing a contest.
A press box with camera access above sits at midfield overlooking the
field. On the opposite side or west side of the field there is a spectator
berm lined with trees where spectators can sit on the grass and overlook
the game.
The
synthetic turf field is 240' x 390'. The Astroturf 12XL system on a
35mm thick elastic layer is the top-of-the-line synthetic turf system
manufactured today. The entire field is placed over a free draining
Dynamic Stone (porous stone) base with additional sub drainage. The
turf surface is equipped with an underground manual irrigation system.
The field has permanent dark green inlayed lines markings 50 yards x
100 yards with horizontal lines every 5 yards for use by the football
team. All other playing lines will be painted on the surface for the
sports that are in their primary playing season. A 10' blacktop perimeter
boarders the field.
The
field is lighted for night play with a sports lighting system capable
of providing a minimum of 50 foot-candles over the entire playing field.
The sport lighting system provides for glare and spill control thereby
only lighting the playing field and not the surrounding areas.