Purdue University announced today, March 22, that fans will be permitted at certain spring outdoor athletics events on the West Lafayette campus in compliance with university and county health guidelines.
"The cooperation and leadership of our students continues to be the reason we are able to operate as openly as any institution our size and the reason we are now able to take this next step in our journey toward more normal operations," said Purdue President Mitch Daniels. "Spring events always bring great energy to our campus community. We anticipate a lot of interest and excitement around these outdoor events and know our faculty, staff, students and any visiting community members will continue to work hard to protect Purdue by protecting themselves, each other and the community."
Purdue will allow 50% occupancy, including campus and community members, at home games for baseball and softball, beginning this Friday, March 26, with contests at Alexander Field and Bittinger Stadium, respectively. All fan seating will be in the outdoor seating areas. Due to operational needs, suites will not be available for use at baseball and softball. The Purdue soccer team's final match of the regular season against Indiana on April 3 will be limited to guests of players and coaches only because of capacity limitations.
Taking into account the attendance needs for team, coaches, staff and team guests, available tickets per game are expected to be:
Alexander Field (baseball): Up to 500 tickets per game.
Bittinger Stadium (softball): Up to 200 tickets per game.
All attendees will be required to have a ticket and follow the Protect Purdue guidelines, including social distancing wherever possible and wearing a mask at all times except when actively eating or drinking.
Purdue Athletics will offer complimentarily admission to the home softball and baseball events scheduled for March 26th – March 28th. Ticket prices for the 2021 baseball and softball contests thereafter will be $5 for all non-student fans 13 and older, while Purdue University students and fans 12 and under will be free but still need a ticket to enter.
Ticket Information
- Everyone will be required to have a ticket
- Tickets for the home-opening weekend will be available to claim online at purduesports.com starting at 10am Thursday
- All tickets for the opening weekend are free on a first come first served basis
- The remainder of the season all tickets are $5 for adults and free for youth 12 and under as well as Purdue Students
- Capacity is based on the number of available outdoor permanent seats (this excludes grass seating, berm seating and standing room only).
- All seating will be reserved seats in pods and distributed in seats of 2 or 4. Students will be distributed as individual (single) tickets.
- Student tickets will distributed in sections 121 and 120 for baseball
- For softball students will be seated in 106
- Scheduled Doubleheaders
- One ticket will be good for both games
- No Re-Entry between games
- Cancelled/Postponed games where the day of the game is changed, tickets will NOT be available for future games (no rain checks). Fans will be provided a refund in this instance and they go online if they want to go to the rescheduled game.
In addition, a select number of students will be allowed to attend the 64th running of the Purdue Grand Prix, the annual student-run go-kart race dubbed the Greatest Spectacle in College Racing, scheduled for April 24. Information regarding scheduling and student ticketing for Purdue Grand Prix will be announced in early April.