page_title: Utah State Aggies
section_title: Facilities
hierarchical_section_title: Utah State Aggies / Facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Romney Stadium, on the main campus of Utah State University, home of the Aggies, in Logan, Utah.
context_page_description: The Utah State Aggies are the athletic teams that represent Utah State University. The school fields 16 sports teams – seven men and nine women – and compete in the Mountain West Conference.
context_section_description: The most used sports venue is the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, where basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics events are held. TV and radio announcers visiting the Smith Spectrum for the first time commonly state that the spectrum is one of the loudest basketball venues in the country with one of the most enthusiastic crowds in the country, rivaling Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke University. It is a tradition that near the beginning of games the crowd chooses one player from the other team who commits a blatant foul, taunts the crowd, etc., and every time that player touches the ball the entire crowd boos loudly until he passes the ball. This pressure on opposing players created by this tradition has cut many outstanding players down to below average while at the Spectrum.
  The football team plays in Maverik Stadium, slightly north and west of the main campus. The stadium had natural grass until 2004, when artificial turf was installed. Romney Stadium is built on a hillside, and appears much smaller from outside than it actually is, as much of the seating and the field are below street level. In 2009, the field at Romney Stadium was named Merlin Olsen Field, in honor of the Hall of Fame alumnus.
caption: Romney Stadium from outside the south entrance
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