Golden Ticket: Marquette Gets $1M Donation For Soccer Stadium

Milwaukee-based KBS Construction Chair and Marquette Univ. (MU) alum Dennis Klein has made a $1M lead gift toward a proposed 2,500-seat soccer stadium for the school, scheduled to open in the fall of ’08, according to Charles Gardner of the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL. The project will have a total capacity of about 4,000 with “tiered standing areas behind the goals,” and it will feature a “natural grass pitch and stadium seating, with part of the stands covered by a roof."  Team locker rooms and meeting rooms, permanent concession stands and restrooms will also be included.  The total cost of the privately-funded project will be approximately $5M and construction is scheduled to begin in November. MU women’s soccer coach Markus Roeders said, “It will be a soccer version of the Al McGuire Center, for what it can provide to our teams. It will be one of the finest college soccer settings out there" (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 6/7).