The team currently competes as a Big East Conference affiliate of NCAA Division I field hockey.

[3] Competitions expanded past the local level after the hiring of head coach Beth Anders in the early 1980s.

Under her 30-season tenure as head coach, the Monarchs achieved nine NCAA tournament championship titles, producing six Honda Sports Award winners and 17 competitors in the Olympic Games.

The Monarchs previously competed in the Colonial Athletic Association from 1991 to 2012 prior to Old Dominion's move to the FBS.

The complex was built to provide a home to ODU field hockey due to the re-establishment of their football program in 2009, which would replace the stadium's occupancy during the fall sports season.