2019 SPG's State Guide to Sports in Mass

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METROWEST, MA

WHILE METROWEST IS KNOWN AROUND THE WORLD AS THE STARTING LINE FOR THE BOSTON MARATHON, IT IS ALSO AN OPTIMAL LOCATION FOR ANY SPORTS TEAM’S NEXT EVENT Approximately 30,000 runners from around the globe descend upon the MetroWest in April on Patriots’ Day to participate in the world’s oldest annual marathon, the Boston Marathon. While it is arguably the most anticipated day of the year for the MetroWest, the area is also home to some of the best sports venues in the Northeast.

Things to do in MetroWest The MetroWest area of New England features lots of wonderful attractions for planners, athletes and families all within a 20-45 minute drive from Boston. Visit the Urban Air Trampoline and Adventure Park in Bellingham, where groups can experience outdoor adventures with indoor comforts. Challenge the team to obstacle courses, zip lining, laser tag and more. Everyone can enjoy the Apex Entertainment Center in Marlborough, which offers bumper cars, go-kart racing, bowling and other adrenaline-inducing activities. Groups can then take the fun back outside to Natick’s Lookout Farm, just 20 miles away from the city. Here, they will be able to hand-pick their own produce while adults taste craft beer and hard cider.

How to Get to MetroWest Sitting at the crossroads of major interstates, MetroWest can be reached by the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90), running from Boston west through the Berkshires and New York. Serving approximately 30 million passengers per year, Logan International Airport in East Boston is the 17th-busiest airport in the U.S.

Our Commitment “Our commitment: For over 300 years, MetroWest’s hospitality industry has been meeting the need of its overnight guests. Working in sync with town officials, sports venues, and attractions, our region welcomes competitors ranging from the 30,000 runners at the start line of the Boston Marathon to small groups of hikers and bikers.”

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1. New England Sports Center Sports: Hockey Located on 22.3 acres of suburban land, the two-story, 306,000-square-foot New England Sports Center in Marlborough contains eight full-sized ice skating rinks, 76 locker rooms, a hockey pro shop, ice skate sharpening, ice skate rentals, function rooms, a full service restaurant and a snack bar, making it the largest ice skating arena in the U.S. The center is host to the Haydenettes and home to the Skating Club of Boston, Minuteman Flames, Junior Bruins and Becker College hockey teams.

2. New England Baseball Complex Sports: Baseball, softball Home to the New England Ruffnecks, the 30-acre New England Baseball Complex in Northborough holds several conferences and tournaments throughout the year for both college-level and youth teams. With three different playing fields, dugouts and concessions, this fully equipped complex has everything you’ll need when looking for that perfect tournament location.

3. Bowditch Athletic and Cultural Complex Sports: Tennis, basketball, track, baseball, football Hosting multiple sporting events for three local high schools, two area colleges, various youth leagues and semi-professional teams located within and near MetroWest, Bowditch Athletic and Cultural Complex in Framingham consists of four tennis courts, two basketball courts, a baseball diamond with spectator seating, a six-lane track and the multi-use playing surface Bowditch Field.

MetroWest Visitors Bureau Phone: 508-361-9881 Email: info@metrowestvisitors.org Website: metrowestvisitors.org @SportsPlanGuide #SportsPG

Ricardo Guillaume Marketing Manager Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism

MASSACHUSETTS is a one-of-a-kind destination for sporting events

Whether it’s our iconic venues like America’s Most Beloved Ballpark, Fenway Park, the TD Garden, and Gillette Stadium, or our numerous collegiate fields and multi-purpose complexes, Massachusetts has a site for any event, big or small.

What sets our state apart is our commitment to excellence in every aspect of athletic events. From NCAA Men’s basketball regionals to the U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships, our facilities are dedicated to upholding the highest standards for athletic performance, and our local fans are passionate, knowledgeable, and appreciate good competition.

The Massachusetts Sports Marketing Office and the members of the Massachusetts sports events industry are ready to utilize every tool at our disposal to market and present high-quality events for your organization.

We look forward to working with you.

Ricardo Guillaume Marketing Manager Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism

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A WINTRY PLAYGROUND

With so many facilities hosting cold-weather events, the Bay State comes alive when the temperatures cool down

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hile much of the country spends the winter months huddled under blankets and sipping hot cocoa, Massachusetts residents welcome the chill while finding numerous ways to break a sweat.

With top-notch facilities offering cold-weather sporting opportunities, Massachusetts denizens have a myriad of choices to embrace winter sports, either as a competitor or a fan.

Here are a few facilities across the Bay State that help keep its inhabitants active when the temperatures plummet.

DCU Center (Worcester)

Mass Mutual Center (Springfield)

A 100,000-square-foot multi-purpose venue and convention center in downtown Springfield, the Mass Mutual Center contains an 8,000-seat arena and houses the Springfield Thunderbirds of the American Hockey League. The center has hosted a slew of quality events and 2019 should be no different as the AHL’s All-Star Classic is slated to take place there.

The classic will include the AHL All-Star skills competition, a Hall of Fame induction, awards ceremony and an All-Star game.

Nashoba Valley Ski Area and Snowtubing Park (Westford)

The DCU Center, an indoor arena in downtown Worcester, is home to the Worcester Railers of the East Coast Hockey League and the Massachusetts Pirates of the National Arena League. The 15,000-seat venue has undergone extensive renovations which have resulted in additional bathrooms, updated flooring and a new rink infrastructure.

The Railers are an affiliate of the New York Islanders and compete from October until April.

The Nashoba Valley Ski Area first opened in 1964, and since then has grown into a full-service ski area offering lessons, rentals, skiing, and snowboarding on its 17 trails filled with various terrain. Nashoba Valley’s snowtubing park, which opened in 2001, is New England’s largest snowboarding facility with four lifts, more than 600 snowtubes and 16 lanes.

Fidelity Bank Worcester Ice Center (Worcester)

This complex features two outdoor rinks with professionally installed lighting, a Mylec playing surface and a pro shop. It hosts leagues for children of all ages (4 and up), enabling them to compete in regular season games and playoffs. Dekhockey is commonly known as street hockey, a variation of ice hockey where the game is played outdoors on foot or with inline or roller skates.

This $18 million, 38,000-square-foot facility is home to more than a dozen teams, ranging from professional hockey to youth programs, and is also the practice facility for the Worcester Railers. The center contains three ice rinks, a pro shop and offers public skating seven days per week where visitors can enjoy freestyle, public, stick and puck skating.

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New England Sports Center (Marlborough)

Located on 22.3 acres, the two-story, 306,000-square-foot New England Sports Center is the largest ice skating arena in the country.

The complex contains eight full-sized skating rinks, 76 locker rooms, a hockey pro shop, ice skate rentals, function rooms, a full-service restaurant and a snack bar. The center is the host site of the Skating Club of Boston, the Minuteman Flames of the Minor Hockey Association, the Boston Junior Bruins, an American junior ice hockey organization, Becker College hockey teams and the Haydenettes, a seniorlevel synchronized skating team representing the Hayden Figure Skating Club.

The complex hosts the North American Fall Championships, the Massachusetts state hockey championships, the NHL Cup and the NHL Alumni Tournament. It has also served as a practice rink for Olympic medal winners Ilia Kulik (Russian figure skater), Evgeny Platov (Russian ice dancer) and Pasha Grishuk (Russian ice dancer).

“We’re fortunate to have the New England Sports Center in our backyard,” said Susan Nicholl, executive director of the MetroWest Visitors Bureau. “It can accommodate the largest tournaments and it has a lot around it that is attractive to people booking tournaments. Marlborough has 11 brand hotels so it’s easy for families to stay in the city and it’s at the crossroads of a lot of interstates. It’s really an incredible location with the most outstanding facility.”

Massachusetts is filled with excellent facilities that allow the state’s residents and visitors alike to embrace winter sports.

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Olympia Ice Center (West Springfield)

This 2,200-seat hockey rink in West Springfield attracts more than 600,000 people from various age groups on an annual basis. The complex contains three NHL-sized arenas and more than 115 teams, including the Springfield Falcons of the AHL, the Springfield Pics of the United States Premier Hockey League, Holy Name and WTM youth hockey, call the center home. The venue also houses local college hockey teams including Western New England University, and hosts several high school teams who play more than 100 games each season at the complex.

Tsongas Center (Lowell)

A multi-purpose facility owned by the University of Massachusetts Lowell, the Tsongas Center opened in 1998 and is home to the University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks ice hockey team of the Hockey East Association. The center seats approximately 6,000 for hockey and also hosts skating competitions. UMass Lowell has spent more than $5 million to renovate the arena, installing LED ribbon boards, a new high-definition video scoreboard, and a new sound system.

Wachusett Mountain (Princeton)

With 25 trails, eight ski lifts, and a 2006-foot summit, Wachusett Mountain is one of the region’s top mountain resorts. The facility has 100 percent snow making capacity and offers night skiing on most of its trails.

The base lodge has recently been expanded and is now nearly 50,000 square feet and contains public areas, a restaurant, a cafeteria, and private suites available for daily rental. SPG Sports Planning Guide

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American History Boston’s 2.5-mile Freedom Trail connects 16 historically significant sites.

Museums and attractions tell the story of our country’s founding

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s one of the 13 original colonies, Massachusetts has played a vital role in the formation of the United States. The Bay State embraces its rich history with an abundance of attractions that retrace America’s growth as a burgeoning nation. Here are some historical sites across the state competitors can enjoy while off the field.

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum (Boston)

The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum is an interactive, high-tech floating museum that narrates the legendary Boston Tea Party. The museum sits on a barge near the Congress Street Bridge in Boston and includes tours on restored tea ships, historical interpreters and artifacts that tell about the fabled events that took place on December 16, 1773, when American colonists dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.

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Freedom Trail (Boston)

Boston’s 2.5-mile Freedom Trail winds through the city’s streets, connecting 16 historically significant sites. The trail is highlighted by a red line leading to museums, churches, meeting houses, parks, a ship, and historical markers that tell the story of the American Revolution. Among the trail’s highlights include Faneuil Hall, which was built in 1741 and has been described as the “cradle of liberty” for its role as the meeting place of revolutionaries and abolitionists; the Old State House, completed in 1713 to house the colony’s government and the location where the Declaration of Independence was first read to the people of Boston; and the Paul Revere House, which was constructed around 1860 and is the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston. @SportsPlanGuide #SportsPG

Hancock Shaker Village (Pittsfield)

The 750-acre Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, 137 miles west of Boston, operates as a living history museum open to the public with 20 authentic Shaker buildings, costumed interpreters, collections of Shaker furniture, and artifacts in rotating exhibits.

The village highlights the history of the Shakers, a religious order that was considered among the most successful utopian societies to exist in this country.

In the late 1780s, the Hancock Shaker Village took shape when about 100 members created a community that peaked in the 1830s with 300-plus Believers living on more than 3,000 acres.

Historic Deerfield

This outdoor museum, located 104 miles west of Boston in the village of Deerfield, interprets the history and culture of early New England. Visitors can tour 12 meticulously preserved antique houses dating from 1730 to 1850 while surveying a collection of regional furniture, silver, and American quilts. Historic Deerfield's houses and galleries contain more than 27,000 objects made or used in America from 1650 to 1900, one of the largest collections in the country.

Jenney Museum (Plymouth)

The Jenney Museum in Plymouth, 40 miles south of Boston, is dedicated to imparting the impact 51 Pilgrims had in the founding of the United States. Built in 1749, the building that belonged to Pilgrim John Jenney is located in the heart of Plymouth’s historic district. The museum offers two tour options, Discover Plymouth’s History, a walking tour which visits monuments along the waterfront including Plymouth Rock, and a Talk through History tour in which visitors meet a Pilgrim and hear stories of his or her life.

Mayflower II and Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth)

Mayflower II is a replica of the 17th-century ship Mayflower, which transported the Pilgrims to the New World. The ship is located at the living history museum the Plimoth Plantation, where costumed interpreters recreate the experience of living in early colonial America. Plimoth Plantation contains exhibits that tell the interwoven stories of two distinct cultures – English and Native American, as it also includes a recreation of a Wampanoag village.

Old Sturbridge Village (below) re-creates life in New England in the early 1800s. The Salem Maritime National Historical Site (below, right) tells the stories of sailors and merchants.

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Minute Man National Historical Park (Concord)

This historical park in Concord, 25 miles west of Boston, commemorates the opening battle of the Revolutionary War. At the park, the first engagement of the American Revolution is brought to life as visitors explore the battlefields and structures associated with April 19, 1775, in which British troops clashed with American colonists, forever changing the world. The park also includes the Wayside, home to three noted American authors, Amos Bronson Alcott and his daughter Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Sidney.

Old Sturbridge Village (Sturbridge)

One of the state's most visited tourist attractions, Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, 60 miles west of Boston, re-creates life in New England as it was in the early 1800s. The village features more than 40 historic homes, craft shops, stores, mills and farm buildings brought from various places to this 200-acre site. Costumed interpreters demonstrate daily tasks of farmers, blacksmiths, housewives, and craftspeople, and offer hands-on activities for children. A working farm demonstrates early farming and gardening, complete with livestock and heirloom plant varieties.

Salem Maritime National Historical Site (Salem)

The historic buildings and wharves of this site in Salem, 22 miles northeast of Boston, tell the stories of the sailors, privateers and merchants who brought the riches of the Far East to America. In this nine-acre park, visitors can follow the route taken by British regulars as they marched from Boston in a move that began the American Revolution.

The site offers guided tours, exhibits, special events, and films.

The House of the Seven Gables (Salem)

This seaside mansion was built in 1668 for Captain John Turner, the head of one of the most successful maritime families in the New England colonies. Designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2007, the House of the Seven Gables is best known as the setting of renowned American author Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel of the same name.

Caroline Emmerton, a philanthropist and preservationist, founded the present-day museum to assist immigrant families who were settling in Salem. Inspired by Jane Adam’s Hull House, she purchased the mansion in 1908 and restored it to its original seven gables. Because of Emmerton and countless supporters, the house has survived with many architectural features intact. SPG

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Springfield, MA

Springfield is home to seven facilities that are sure to suit every sports planner’s and athlete’s needs.

Sports planners out East often plan their events bearing many factors in mind. As always, cost is a factor, but so are the time of year, facility space and the various accommodations that their teams need. Those who choose to host their next tournament in Springfield, however, will have no trouble finding the right space and surrounding attractions to keep athletes and their families happy. With the help of the Greater Springfield CVB and Western Massachusetts Sports Commission, every planner is wellequipped to organize and execute any kind of competition, whether it’s at the novice or professional level.

coasters, as well as Springfield’s popular museums. The Springfield Museums, for example, allow visitors to access science, history and art museums–five in total—with just one ticket. At the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss, kids can get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of their favorite classics. Visitors will also enjoy Yankee Candle Village, perfect for picking up scented gifts and special souvenirs.

The Basketball Hall of Fame pays tribute to past players and inspires budding professionals. The highly anticipated MGM Springfield casino is set to open in late summer of 2018.

In addition to boasting several state-of-the-art facilities, Springfield is the perfect place to embark on historic adventures and partake in local activities, from museum hopping to shopping and skiing.

How to get to Springfield

Springfield’s prime sports facilities are coupled with an impressive selection of lodging options. Planners, athletes and families can choose from over 10 hotels, including the Hampton Inn Downtown Springfield, Tower Square Hotel, the Sheraton Springfield, the Hilton Garden Inn Springfield, the LaQuinta Inn & Suites and Conference Center, the Holiday Inn Express and more.

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Whether by car or bus, most visitors are able to reach Springfield at the intersection of I-90 and I-91. Amtrak services are available to anyone who wishes to visit Springfield and Massachusetts’s other major cities, including Boston, Worcester and Cambridge. Springfield is most easily accessed from the Bradley International Airport, just 18 miles away in Connecticut.

Planner Perspective “The quality venues, community support and attractions in the area have made the Bay State Games one of the largest and most respected events in the country.”

– Kevin Cummings, Executive Director, Bay State Games

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Sports: Hockey, ice skating, racquetball, basketball

1. MassMutual Center

Sports: Hockey, basketball The MassMutual Center, home to the Springfield Thunderbirds, seats 8,000 people and hosts a variety of hockey and basketball tournaments in its modern arena. A 2003 renovation significantly expanded the facility to become Western Massachusetts’s largest convention center, with 100,000 square-feet of event space in addition to the arena.

Another renovation in 2015 upgraded the arena’s technology to add new LED lighting, an 18x4-foot LED video scoreboard and an 85-foot LED board. MassMutual also offers accessible seating and 11 concessions stands during games, such as Center Grille and Chick-Fil-A. More dining options and parking are conveniently located nearby.

2. Eastern States Exposition Sports: Equestrianism

Famous for its year-round horse shows, the Eastern States Exposition, or Big E, is the ideal facility for riders and their 1,500-pound teammates. Adjacent to the horse show field is a barn equipped with stables and horsemen’s supplies. Also known as “New England’s Great State fair,” the exposition grounds also hosts the country’s seventh-largest fair and the East coast’s largest agricultural event. Visitors will find a variety of fair food on-site, plus plenty of parking space.

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The Mullins Center, located on the University of Massachusetts Amherst campus, provides exceptional spaces for various sports. Inside, planners will find the William D. Mullins Memorial Center, the university’s prime sports complex with a basketball court that seats 9,493 people and a 200 x 95-foot hockey rink that seats 8,387. Underground locker rooms accompany these spaces. Neighboring the Memorial Center is an ice rink for novice skating and college-level hockey. The building additionally houses three racquetball courts for recreational and competitive teams.

4. Three County Fairgrounds Sports: Equestrianism

Northampton’s Three County Fairgrounds is well-equipped to host any equestrian tournament. Planners can rent out an indoor 250 x 150-square-foot arena and warm up ring for horse shows and competitions, as well as up to five horse barns with on-site crews and equipment.

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Director of Sales Phone: 413-755-1346 Email: aszenda@explorewesternmass.com Website: Westernmasports.com

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