Opened in 1995, Helen Lutes Field is named in honor of longtime Mansfield physical education teacher Helen Dieffenbach Lutes. The field was dedicated April 15, 1995 during a game between Lutes' alma mater of East Stroudsburg and the Mountaineers.
A member of the Mansfield University Athletic Hall of Fame, Lutes coached tennis which was Mansfield’s first varsity sport for women. In addition to her coaching and teaching duties, Lutes was also in charge of women’s intramural programs at Mansfield, a position that was strictly volunteer at the time. Lutes chaired the Health and Physical Education department from 1968 until her retirement in 1974.
Sitting in the same aluminum lawn chair at the end of the bench in the dugout, Lutes missed just one game in a nine-year span before her passing in 2003 at the age of 94. Head coach Edith Gallagher sets the same chair up in the dugout for every home game so Helen can still watch her girls play.
Lutes Field has dimensions of 190 feet down the lines and 225 feet dead center. The field sits adjacent to Karl Van Norman Field and below Decker Gymnasium.
The field features a press box, athletic training facilities, bullpen, batting cages, full infield tarp, and digital scoreboard.