SUNY New Paltz Athletics

 
Mary Gray Deane Field moved to its current location in 2003 to make way for the construction of Lenape Hall. Mary Gray Deane, a New Paltz Athletics Hall of Fame member who served as a director of athletics and coach from 1924-59, serves as the field’s namesake. Offering a natural-grass outfield and a dirt infield, the facility serves as a solid NCAA Division III softball field. There is a double-wide hitting cage along the third-base line and a double-wide bullpen along the first-base line, both of which are open for use by opposing teams.

The bleachers around the first- and third-base lines seat approximately 100 spectators, but perhaps the best view of the field is from the hill just beyond the center field wall below the outside of the track. A windscreen with the new Hawk athletics logos emblazoned on it was hung on the outfield fence in 2010, and in 2011, both a state-of-the-art scoreboard beyond the right field wall and a backstop with the New Paltz logo were installed.