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Charlotte 49ers Facilities

• Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)/Halton Arena
• Miltimore-Wallis Athletic Training and Academic Center (ATAC)
• Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field
• Transamerica Field at the Irwin Belk Center
• Wachovia Fieldhouse
• D.L. Phillips Sports Complex
• Parking

With over $40 million in new facilities constructed since 1994, the Charlotte 49ers are building their future one substantial brick at a time. Unabashedly, the 49ers claim some of the best facilities in the nation.

With the James H. Barnhardt Student Activity Center/Dale F. Halton Arena (1996) serving as the centerpiece, the 49ers have added the Wachovia Fieldhouse (1994), the Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field (1996) and the Miltimore-Wallis Athletic Academic Center (2003).

In all, that equates to over 240,000 square feet of new facilities that hones each and every aspect of the 49ers athletic program. The upgrades include new playing arenas, lockerrooms, office space, practice facilities, academic space, weight and conditioning facilities and medical training facilities.

Due to the generous support of the Charlotte corporate community, as well as numerous individual friends and fans, the 49ers now offer their student-athletes quality environments to assist with their physical training and pursuit of academic excellence.

Barnhardt Student Activity Center (SAC)/Halton Arena

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Bringing 49ers basketball games back on-campus was the impetus behind the creation of this facility, which is so much more than a basketball arena. The center, which puts a premium on student activity, includes a food court, a game room, a state of the art weight room, recreational courts, an indoor jogging track and a climbing wall. As for the 49ers, the SAC includes administrative office space, coaches offices and reception areas, lockerrooms for the men's and women's basketball teams and volleyball team and an expansive medical training room. Of course, Halton Arena is the jewel within this crown plaza. With 9105 seats, all with chairbacks, Halton Arena epitomizes the tagline, "not a bad seat in the house." While the 49ers enjoy a noteworthy home court advantage, fans can enjoy quality athletics in a first-class facility.

Miltimore-Wallis Athletic Training and Academic Center (ATAC)

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An addition onto the Barnhardt Student Activity Center, the ATAC was built, primarily, to upgrade the department's academic learning center. With plenty of desk top space, computer and internet access, tutor carrels and group meeting space, the 49ers now offer their student-athletes an exquisite, modernized environment conducive to academic study.

The ATAC also includes Charles Hayward Memorial Court, as well as a new weight facility dedicated to 49ers student-athletes, offices and reception areas for the men's and women's basketball and volleyball programs, an executive meeting room, a video/theater room as well as an attractive atrium geared towards entertaining.

Irwin Belk Track and Field Center/Transamerica Field

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U.S. Olympic Committee Chair LeRoy Walker christened the facility in 1996 and since then it has played host to the AAU Junior Olympics, the German Olympic Track and Field team, several NCAA soccer tournament games, Conference USA Track and Field Championships, Conference USA Soccer Championships and North Carolina High School Track and Field Championships. In addition, it has allowed the university the opportunity to host such community events as the American Heart Walk, the Senior Games and the Special Olympics.

In terms of the athletic program, it provides 49ers student-athletes with perhaps the finest track and field facility in the Southeast as well as a spacious soccer stadium that rivals any in the country. The building also includes offices and locker rooms for the 49ers cross country and track and field programs.

Transamerica Field at the Irwin Belk Center

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U.S. Olympic Committee Chair LeRoy Walker christened the facility in 1996 and since then it has been the home of the Charlotte 49ers men’s and women’s soccer programs. The facility has also played host to several MLS teams, the Charlotte Eagles a local professional soccer team, the United States national women’s soccer team as well as Conference USA and Atlantic 10 soccer championships and several NCAA Tournament soccer games.

In terms of the athletic program, it provides the 49ers soccer programs a spacious soccer stadium that rivals any in the country.

Wachovia Fieldhouse

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The first new structure the 49ers completed served as an anchor to the D.L. Phillips Sports Complex. When built, it gave the 49ers men's and woemn's soccer, baseball and softball programs a brand new home, complete with spacious lockerrooms outfitted with signature cherry wood lockers, coaches offices convenient to their playing facilities, a hospitality room and concession area. All in all, the Fieldhouse gave the 49er programs the amenities that few such teams had anywhere in the country.

D.L. Phillips Sports Complex
The D.L. Phillips Sports Complex includes the 49ers Tom and Lib Phillips Baseball Field and the Charlotte 49ers Softball Diamond, the 49ers men's and women's tennis courts as well as the Wachovia Fieldhouse, which houses coaches offices and lockerrooms for the baseball, softball and men's and women's soccer programs.

Upgrades at the D.L. Phillips Complex have included ongoing renovations to Tom and Lib Phillips Baseball Field, upgraded dugout and field enhancements of the 49ers Softball Diamond and the relocation and expansion of the 49ers Tennis Courts.