Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium

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Located at the top of App State's campus off Bodenheimer Drive, Beaver Field at Jim and Bettie Smith Stadium has been the home of App State baseball since 2007.

Most recently, before the 2020 season, a new AstroTurf Diamond Series playing surface, new black wall padding, a fan deck in right-center field and new dugout benches were added, helping Smith Stadium join three SEC stadiums in the Final Four of College Baseball Nation's top baseball field contest. The stadium was also featured in an MLB.com story that declared "Appalachian State's baseball stadium is paradise."

Before the 2019 season, Adirondack chairs accompanying fire pits down the first-base line were part of a new viewing area for fans, and the preseason installation of TrackMan Baseball technology provides App State's coaches and players with valuable hitting, pitching and other analytics.

CLICK ON THE VIDEO BELOW TO SEE THE TURF INSTALLATION:

It's an exciting day in Boone, as our team will work out on our new AstroTurf??Series field from @AstroTurfUSA for the first time!

As you can ?? in this time-lapse video, a big project like this doesn't just happen overnight. pic.twitter.com/US4tSykh1Q
— App State Baseball (@AppBaseball) October 15, 2019

Construction on Smith Stadium began in fall of 2006 and was completed in three phases. The Beaver Field playing surface, along with team dugouts and the Don and Pat Phillips Indoor Hitting and Pitching Facility, were completed in the spring of 2007, allowing the Mountaineers to host 12 games at its new home that season — including a 6-1 victory over Gardner-Webb in the first contest ever played at the facility on April 10, 2007. Smith Stadium’s lights also allowed for night baseball to be played on App State’s campus for the first time in 2007.

Prior to the 2008 campaign, the stadium’s permanent seating areas and Beaver Clubhouse were erected and the Mountaineers played their entire home slate at the ballpark, posting a 13-11 mark at home. The squad capped their first full season at Smith Stadium with wins in eight of their final nine home contests of that season, including a three-game sweep of first-place Furman in May.

Construction wrapped up with the completion of the stadium’s entrance, concourse and concessions/press box facility prior to the 2009 season. Several upgrades to the original stadium design, including the installation of individual chair-back seats throughout the main seating area and an overhaul of the Phillips Indoor Hitting and Pitching Facility, have been completed in recent years.

Smith Stadium has provided the Mountaineers with an impressive home-field advantage, including a string of 19 straight wins from March 22, 2009 until March 20, 2010. That was the nation’s longest home winning streak until it was snapped nearly a full year after it began. Appalachian was also a stellar 24-2 at home in 2012.

Amenities include:

• BEAVER FIELD, a state-of-the art AstroTurf Diamond Series playing surface, installed before the 2020 season, that allows for consistent play the same no matter the weather conditions and for games to be contested following weather that would leave most natural surfaces unplayable. Beaver Field was named in honor of Donald C. Beaver in 2007. A two-time App State graduate, Beaver has served on the App State Board of Trustees, Appalachian State University Foundation Board and Walker College of Business Advisory Council. He was honorary chairman of the university’s first large fundraising campaign in the 1980s, and he received App State’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 1990.

• BEAVER CLUBHOUSE, which features:

a roomy players locker area with lockers and showers for 35 players, two televisions and state-of-the art surround sound system.
coaches offices and locker room, each of which also include televisions.
a full-service training room, complete with hydro-therapy station and television.
the Tomikaze Lounge, named in honor of former Mountaineer Tom Prosser, which includes leather furniture and a flat-screen television for players and guests.

• DON AND PAT PHILLIPS INDOOR HITTING AND PITCHING FACILITY, which recently underwent a full renovation and includes two batting cages and pitcher’s mounds, multiple individual hitting and pitching skills stations and video analysis equipment to allow for year-round training.

• CHAIRBACK SEATING FOR 827 INSTALLED PRIOR TO THE 2015 SEASON, which added to the fan experience by eliminating bleachers in Smith Stadium’s permanent seating areas. Grass seating can accommodate hundreds more fans down the right-field line.

• PRESS BOX, CONCESSIONS AND SOUVENIRS BUILDING that also doubles as a grand entrance to the stadium complex from the parking level.

• FIRE PITS AND ADIRONDACK CHAIRS that give fans a fun viewing experience down the first-base line.

• FAN DECK with more Adirondack chairs for another viewing area behind the wall in right-center field.