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Wendell & Vickie Bell Soccer Complex

The Wendell & Vickie Bell Soccer Complex, colloquially known as "The Bell" is a soccer-specific stadium at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington, Kentucky in the United States. It is the home of the university's men's and women's college soccer teams.

Architecture and design
The University of Kentucky worked closely with the architectural firm Luckett & Farley to design and compete the stadium. The Bell opened in the spring of 2014, and has a spectator capacity of 3,368.The construction of the facility cost the University of Kentucky $7.7 million. The stadium has approximately 2,500 square-feet of press box and suit space, 13,000 square-feet of support space that includes: locker rooms, showers, student-athlete lounges, training facilities, physician's room, and other offices and storage. The soccer complex is connected to the softball stadium and shares concessions, bathrooms, and a ticket booth. In 2021, $600,000 worth of additions were added. These additions included a new turf playing field, a video tower and a new video board. == Wendell and Vickie Bell ==
Wendell and Vickie Bell
Wendell Bell, a University of Kentucky Alumni, studied computer science at the university and currently is the executive chairman of Enerfab, a construction company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Vickie Bell went to Northern Kentucky University and was a schoolteacher before she retired. She also serves as a community advisory member on the athletics committee of the UK board of trustees. Naming Overall, the couple has donated more than $9 million to UK athletics, and specifically $5 million to the construction of the soccer complex. With their monetary donations and constant support of UK athletics, the university decided that the Bells' case exceeded the "extraordinary circumstances" clause for naming buildings. This ruling by the board of trustees allowed the complex to be named after the couple. ==References==
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