Lithia Motors Pavilion/Student Recreation Center
The 60-year-old old McNeal Hall was demolished in January of 2016, making way for the all-new Lithia Motors Pavilion and Student Recreation Center. The facility, completed in March of 2018, features a 1,400-seat competition gym, locker rooms, classrooms, offices and conference rooms for both academics and athletics, an athletic training and sports medicine room and a wrestling practice room. The Student Recreation Center includes a two-court recreational gym, suspended indoor running track, fitness center, climbing wall, an outdoor programs area, staff offices and locker rooms. The $17.7 million recreation center was funded by fees that SOU students levied upon themselves, while the athletics side of the building received $22 million in bond funding from the state and pledges totaling about $2 million more from several donors – including $1 million from the local DeBoer family and their company, Lithia Motors
Raider Stadium
Constructed in 1983 at the cost of $1.55 million, Raider Stadium is home to SOU football and track teams, and starting in 2014 it became the home of Raider soccer after the installation of a new track and an artificial turf field. Considered one of the best small-college stadia in the West, the 4,000-seat complex features 1,000 covered grandstand seatbacks, excellent media facilities and a large concession stand. Most of the stadium construction costs were covered by state building funds and by the sale of preferred seating. Artificial field turf was installed in 2014, and in the summer of 2016, construction began on Raider Stadium's renovation project, which includes new locker rooms for football and track and field, athletic offices and a weight room.
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Raider Stadium offers an excellent view of two prominent mountain ranges. Northeast (from the main grandstand) are the foothills of the Cascade Range with the highest visible point being the 5,100-foot Grizzly Peak. Following Interstate 5 to the south is the Siskiyou Range that forms a geographic boundary between Oregon and California. The stadium is 2,100 feet above sea level. The field itself, Fuller Field, is named in honor of former Ashland postmaster John Fuller, an instrumental figure in the 1926 organization of what is now Southern Oregon University. Used for many years as a practice field, Fuller Field became the permanent site for Raider home games in 1955. Prior to that, the Raiders competed for nearly three decades at high school fields in Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass.
University Softball Field
Southern Oregon University created one of the best facilities in the NAIA for its fastpitch softball program, which was reinstated to intercollegiate status after a 17-year hiatus in 2000. Located across Iowa Street from Raider Stadium, what was once a baseball field is now a 500-seat, softball-only complex.
Raider Beach
Located behind Raider Stadium, Raider Beach has been the home of the SOU beach volleyball team since its inaugural season in 2023. The facility, which runs parallel to Wightman Street, is outfitted with three sand courts that replaced a set of tennis courts formerly in the same spot.
