Kidd Brewer Stadium

Kidd Brewer Stadium is a 24,050-seat multi-purpose stadium located in Boone, North Carolina. Nicknamed "The Rock", the stadium is the home of the Mountaineers football team. It is also the home of the school's field hockey and track and field teams. The stadium stands 3280ft above sea level with the track measured at 3333ft for NCAA qualifications. Kidd Brewer Stadium claims to be one of the toughest venues in the nation for a visiting team, with the Mountaineers boasting a 225–72–5 home record.HistoryOfficially opened on September 15, 1962, as Conrad Stadium, in honor of former university trustee and R.J. Reynolds executive William J. Conrad, the stadium was originally constructed with 10,000 permanent seats. It became the first venue in either North or South Carolina to install artificial turf. The Mountaineers and Elon staged the first game on artificial turf in the Carolinas on October 3, 1970. Seating capacity was expanded to 18,000 following the 1978 season. The stadium was the backdrop for the second college football game ever televised by ESPN as the Mountaineers played the Western Carolina Catamounts for the Old Mountain Jug in 1979. Completion of an extensive renovation and restoration project on the original 10,000 seats in 1995 readjusted the seating capacity to 16,650. A then-state-of-the-art "AppVision" video board was added in 1999 and enlarged prior to the 2001 campaign. Appalachian State was also one of the initial collegiate programs in the country to install FieldTurf at its football stadium in 2003.