Twins and Target Field to host National Champion South Dakota State University Football

MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL, MN – Bringing the most effective of school soccer to the area’s premier sports activities and leisure venue, the Minnesota Twins and South Dakota State College (SDSU) as we speak introduced that the reigning nationwide champion Jackrabbits soccer workforce will host Drake College on September 16 at Goal Area. The competition between these two Soccer Championship Subdivision (FCS) applications can be an SDSU house sport; it additionally marks the third school soccer sport within the 14-year historical past of the Twins’ house ballpark, and the second NCAA Division I contest.

Kickoff time and ticket info, together with availability and on-sale date, can be introduced within the coming weeks.

“The Minnesota Twins group is thrilled to host SDSU soccer because the Jackrabbits proceed protection of their first-ever nationwide title proper right here at Goal Area,” stated membership President & CEO Dave St. Peter. “We can not wait to once more revel within the pageantry and custom of school soccer, and are past excited to welcome SDSU, Drake and their respective followers and communities to downtown Minneapolis and our stunning ballpark.”

“We’re honored to accomplice with the Minnesota Twins group and need to thank our counterparts at Drake for his or her cooperation in making this sport at Goal Area a actuality,” stated SDSU Director of Athletics Justin Promote. “This sport supplies us with a fantastic alternative to showcase Jackrabbit Soccer in a location with one among our strongest alumni bases and likewise a key space inside our recruiting footprint.”

SDSU completed its historic 2022 marketing campaign with a 14-1 document and this system’s first ever nationwide title, capped by a victory over North Dakota State College within the FCS Championship Recreation on January 8, 2023.

Goal Area Faculty Soccer Historical past

The SDSU-Drake matchup marks the third school soccer sport performed at Goal Area, and the second NCAA Division I contest. The Twins’ house ballpark first welcomed a then-record Division III crowd of 37,355 for the College of St. Thomas’ 20-17 victory over St. John’s College on September 23, 2017; the venue then hosted 34,544 followers on August 31, 2019 as North Dakota State College defeated Butler College by a rating of 57-10.

Nestled into downtown Minneapolis, the award-winning Goal Area – house to Main League Baseball’s Minnesota Twins – is among the premier sporting and leisure venues within the Higher Midwest, and one of the vital distinctive and spectacular ballparks within the sport. The 2011 Sports activities Enterprise Journal Sports activities Facility of the 12 months, the ballpark was acknowledged as having the most effective sport day expertise in all of sports activities by ESPN The Journal in 2010. Generally known as the “Greenest Ballpark in America,” Goal Area was awarded LEED Platinum certification in 2022 and is the one MLB venue to earn 5 separate LEED honors. Since its opening in 2010, Goal Area has hosted MLB’s Postseason (2010, ’19 and ’20), the 2014 MLB All-Star Recreation, quite a few highschool and school baseball video games, 17 concert events, two school soccer video games, a world soccer match and the 2022 Uncover NHL Winter Traditional®.