Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium

The Gayle and Tom Benson Stadium officially opened on campus September 1, 2008, when the Bensons joined with more than 2,000 Cardinals fans and athletes to declare the facility ready for action.

Benson and his family long have been ardent supporters of Incarnate Word. A San Antonian himself, Benson is the owner of professional football's New Orleans Saints.

Benson Stadium now has permanent seating for 6,000 spectators with the 2010 addition of the north bleachers. Atop the original south seating areas are skyboxes while the north side has the two-building media and game operations facilities including a permanent home for KUIW Internet Radio and UIWTV.

The playing area itself is artificial, Hellas Matrix. The stadium also is wide enough and long enough that the Cardinals soccer teams, men's and women's, have begun playing their games here.

An Olympic-standard running track will surround the football/soccer playing surface and will be all-weather in nature. Accompaning the track will be the requisite jumping and throwing areas.

Adjoining the football field is the Benson Fieldhouse of 16,000 square feet housing a weight room, athletic training facility, locker rooms meeting areas and coaches offices.

In the spring of 2002 Cardinals track and field athletes, and for that matter all UIW personnel and members of the surrounding community, enjoyed the use of an all-weather track for the first time. The eight-lane track itself was retopped with Paragon Sports PTS 2000 in the summer of 2015.