Leopard FANSeats - Online Tickets

Aug. 18, 2000

EASTON, Pa. (www.lafayette.edu) - The FANSonly Network, the Web's largest network of official college athletic sites with over 90 official partnerships, and Lafayette College announced today the launch of a new internet feature that allows Leopard football tickets to be purchased online. FANSeats will offer a secure online transaction form to purchase season and individual game tickets on the Leopard's Official Athletic Site, www.GoLeopards.com. Lafayette, which will also offer its basketball tickets through this new feature, is the first of FANSonly's 73 live college athletic sites to offer this service to fans.

"Moving business functions online should help Athletic Departments better serve the needs of their fans, while also easing the staffing needs that many universities face," said Jeff Cravens, Vice President and General Manager of FANSonly. "Lafayette's decision and ability to sell tickets directly on their website with our newly developed technology is setting a trend that I think many of the schools in our network will be quick to follow."

FANSonly is rolling out the new secure online transaction solution to athletic departments this fall for operations such as ticket sales, fund-raising, and camp registration. In addition to Lafayette, schools that have committed to launch one or more of the features this fall include Clemson, Texas Tech, Iowa State, Central Michigan, Toledo and Fairfield. The company expects that 50 to 60 schools will implement the new service over the next year.

Lafayette opens its 119th season of football on Sept. 9, when Towson visits Fisher Field for a 1:30 p.m. kickoff. The Leopards' 2000 schedule features five home contests, including Ivy League foes Princeton and Harvard, as well as Holy Cross and the 136th meeting with archrival Lehigh.